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Gossip: Tuchel and Ancelotti head Everton targets, West Ham 'want Nagelsmann', Mourinho 'throws coat in rage'

Sean Dyche, Jose Mourinho and Carlo Ancelotti – ready for change?
Sean Dyche, Jose Mourinho and Carlo Ancelotti – ready for change?

Everton may be a disjointed, overpriced rabble with 15 number 10s and no striker, but they’re a disjointed, overpriced rabble with a rich and generous majority shareholder. And this means the creme de la creme of Europe’s managers are reportedly sniffing around the hole where Ronald Koeman once stood.

Or perhaps more accurately, Everton are sniffing around them. Every paper seems to have a different idea about who the Toffees want to appoint, which seems to imply that no one has a clue who will step into Koeman’s strawberry blonde shoes – least of all the Goodison Park board.

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The Mirror identifies Thomas Tuchel as Everton’s “top target”, although the former Borussia Dortmund coach may be harbouring hopes of a move to Bayern Munich when 72-year-old caretaker manager Jupp Heynckes leaves the Allianz Arena at the end of the season.

Thomas Tuchel is one of those in line for the Everton job. Apparently.
Thomas Tuchel is one of those in line for the Everton job. Apparently.

Another big name in the frame, according to the Sun, is Carlo Ancelotti. The Italian’s name was allegedly “being discussed by Everton’s hierarchy” before Koeman was sacked, and he has the kind of illustrious background that ambitious owner Farhad Moshiri “fancies”.

If Ancelotti does take the job he would apparently want to appoint Swansea boss Paul Clement as his number two, so the Toffees would be getting two Premier League managers for the price of one. (Actually, that’s not true – they would probably have to pay for the price of at least two managers.)

Dyche in demand

Alternatively, the Express says Moshiri will adopt a one ginger out, one ginger in policy and snare Koeman’s fellow auburnite Sean Dyche from Burnley. Leicester are also keen on the gravel-toned strongman, but the Toffees reportedly want to “hijack” the bid.

Meanwhile Jamie Carragher, writing in the Telegraph (or rather, spitting words into a telephone for a ghost-writer to clean up at the Telegraph), says the Toffees should wait until the summer and appoint Watford’s Marco Silva as Koeman’s successor. Although it doesn’t really have anything to do with him (apart from the fact he used to be an Everton fan).

This patient approach could be good news for caretaker boss David Unsworth, who will take charge of first-team affairs in the coming weeks but also “wants to manage the club long term”, says the Guardian.

Elsewhere in other hot manager gossip, Leicester could turn to Guadalajara’s Argentine coach Matias Almeyda as an alternative to the aforementioned Dyche (Mirror), West Ham have plans to replace their beleaguered boss Slaven Bilic with Hoffenheim’s 30-year-old tactical prodigy Julian Nagelsmann (Express) and – in the most explosive revelation of all – Jose Mourinho was allegedly so angry after Manchester United’s defeat to Huddersfield that he “flung his coat to the floor” in the dressing room (Sun). Wow – he is absolutely hard as nails, that guy.

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