One month on, Everton's painfully slow manager search exposes a boardroom dithering and in disarray

Today marks a big day. Thanksgiving? Not much of that down Goodison Park at the moment. It’s more questions without answers. The fans have had their fill, and there’s no turkey in sight.

No, it’ll be one month since dithering Everton decided to become self reliant, and went alone without Ronald Koeman. One month since the board thought they knew better, and thought their club was an easy sell to the likes of Sean Dyche or Marco Silva.

It’ll be 32 days since they made a decision, one they knew in truth they were going to make a few weeks before the bullet was placed in the gun.

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Yet more than four weeks on, we’re none the wiser. Talk on Merseyside is that an appointment is nowhere near being concluded. Five weeks is likely to turn into six or even seven.

Everton fans want answers. Answers to why a club is willing to shell out £45m for Gylfi Sigurdsson, from Swansea, but are holding back the pennies when it comes a slightly more important position than attacking midfield.

Answers also to how a club whose summer spending stood at £93.4m – plus the free transfer of Wayne Rooney, on a reported £150,000 per week – are not an attractive enough proposition for Burnley’s Dyche, or an out-of-work Sam Allardyce.

Fears are growing because of the stalemate with Watford over Silva, and the lack of conversation with a once interested Big Sam, that the Toffees are trying to cut corners.

While delays occur, this does demonstrate a worrying lack or organisation at boardroom level, with targets offering such a range of playing styles and philosophies.

Quite how can targets Alladyce and Dyche be penned on the same list as free-flowing Silva, or the fanciful pursuit of purist Diego Simone?

Yet the longer the indecision goes on, the longer David Unsworth becomes a viable option.

The caretaker has already shown what he is. A nice guy, they all are, too inexperienced to be thrown straight into a Premier League dressing room, but enjoying enough good will within the camp to at least come up with short term solutions to stop their slide down the table.

Unsworth would be the cheap option. If it’s one the board went for after spending nearly £100m in the summer would then they would be hanging their former defender out to dry, and well as hanging their own necks through the noose.

The delay isn’t fair on the ex-Sheffield United defender, almost certain to be made redundant from his coaching role if and when Everton do make their minds up on an outside appointment.

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Still, in newspapers at least, the name of Simone continues to somehow appear. Even if Atletico Madrid were to face the European boot this evening, an appointment still seems far-fetched.

Wishful thinking from Everton fans, hoping the waiting game coincides with the end of the Euro road for Atleti, geared at the Argentinian wanting out at a club who have reached two of the last four Champions League finals and now somehow fancies the challenge of resuscitating their abysmal season.

If they say a week is a long time in football, what do Everton fans make of the past month?