Updated at 15.56
1. Sam Allardyce – 10/1
Allardyce has been without a job since stepping down as Crystal Palace boss at the end of last season. He hinted at retirement from football after leaving the Eagles back in May. But he has been linked with a number of roles since, including the vacant Leicester job and the USA national team manager’s hotseat. Given the Toffees’ considerable financial resources, it would be arguably the biggest job of Allardyce’s club career were he to accept it, though whether the powers that be at Goodison Park consider him a good fit remains to be seen.
2. David Unsworth - 3/1
Unsworth is a club legend, having made over 100 appearances for Everton. He has spent this season managing the Toffees’ U23 team and is expected to be installed as caretaker manager of the first team on an interim basis at least following Koeman’s departure. Presuming this news is confirmed and should the club get a few positive results during that period, the owners may be tempted to hand Unsworth the permanent job.
3. Chris Coleman – 12/1
Coleman is currently the Wales manager though his future is uncertain after the team failed to qualify for World Cup 2018. He has Premier League managerial experience, having taken charge at Fulham between 2003 and 2007. He was also linked with the vacant Leicester hotseat recently and his stock remains relatively high, having guided Wales to the semi-finals of Euro 2016 just over a year ago.
4. Sean Dyche - 8/1
Sean Dyche has done a fantastic job on minimal resources at Burnley. He kept the club up last year and has guided them to eighth place in the table this season. Whether he would be a natural fit at Everton remains questionable, however. The brand of football he favours at the Clarets is not dissimilar to Allardyce’s style, so whether he could adapt to the demands of a bigger club is uncertain.
5. David Moyes - 4/1
Moyes would certainly be the most controversial appointment from all the choices listed here. On the one hand, he knows the culture of the club and is comfortably Everton’s highest achieving manager of the Premier League era, after 11 successful years there. That said, since leaving the Toffees in 2013, his stock has fallen dramatically — not one of his subsequent stints, at Man United, Real Sociedad and Sunderland, could be considered a success.
6. Carlo Ancelotti - 12/1
The most left-field choice of the lot, Ancelotti was sacked by Bayern early into this season, with some players unhappy with his management style. When you consider the jobs the Italian has worked for, however – Reggiana, Parma, Juventus, Milan, Chelsea, PSG, Real Madrid and Bayern — with the exception of Ancelotti’s first club, Everton would be the lowest level he has managed. However, given the Toffees’ potential with new owners that are seemingly willing to spend big, the experienced coach might just fancy the challenge.
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Dyche would be crazy to leave Burnley for Everton at the moment. It’s going to be very hard to succeed at a side with no goal scorers and once a young English manager fails at a “bigger” club it can spell the end of the road for their career.
@Hank Scorpio: I agree with you man. But Everton is the biggest club Dyche could ever hope to get. Who knows when it comes around again?
Then again – He was relegated with Burnley and a serious reputation. If he didn’t walk then, why walk now when sun shines?
@Hank Scorpio: currently heavy favorite at 6/4, don’t know where the42 got 8s.
Coleman failed to qualify for world cup not euro 2016
Ancelotti is clearly angling for a return to the Premier League, but I think he’s hoping that either the Liverpool or Chelsea job becomes available.
Brendan Rodgers ?
@Scott Walker: step down not a hope
@ryan o sullivan: lol.. hardly
@ryan o sullivan: I hope not, just surprised he’s not among the favorites.
Thomas tuchel… we’re Everton f.f.s.
S.Kenny
Sean dyche is the most likely to land the job and probably the best fit for everton out of who is available. But I’d love to see brendan Rodgers get the job and right a few wrongs from his last stint in the Premier league.
@d: Rodgers speaks to much waffle @d
@d: he’s a complete spoofer. Can’t organise a defence to save his life. He owes any bit of credibility he has to Luis Suarez
Surely it will be Moyes
Ancellotti would be a great signing of intent
Dyche has to be a contender. Mind ya he probably waiting on the call from the Theatre Of Queens.
@Mrs. Nugent: think you’ll find he’s going to Anfield
Martin o Neill 16/1 ?
@Noel: Hardly, especially if we qualify for the world cup
@COYBIG: like that’s going happen
Wales did qualify for Euro 2016 under Coleman…
It has to be either Garry Neville or Harry Redknapp…..Ha Ha Ha Ha
@Giroud Doherty: A
@Giroud Doherty: Are you still laughing?
@An Observer: ha ha
Sean Dyche would look a right tool if he took this job after his interview in the Times On Sunday claiming he’s happy at Burnley and wouldn’t leave
Long shot here but Alan Curbishley is free I think