The Everton board are at loggerheads over whether or not to make an offer to Sam Allardyce to be their next manager, according to the Daily Mail.
The newspaper claim that a fracture has emerged in the boardroom as Allardyce, 63, is not favoured by everyone even though he held talks with majority shareholder Farhad Moshiri on Sunday.
The Mail report that Moshiri and Allardyce have not subsequently been in contact and there will be a board meeting on Wednesday to thrash out the issues dividing the Everton hierarchy.
It is said that the former England manager will be unimpressed at Moshiri’s desire to bring Atletico Madrid’s Diego Simeone to Goodison Park.
In addition to the Argentine and Allardyce, Burnley’s Sean Dyche, Watford’s Marco Silva and Everton caretaker manager David Unsworth are also in contention to take on the vacant role.
OPINION
It appears that Everton are not dead set on one manager as they continue to keep their options open. There is a strong possibility that the new manager might not even be in place by the end of the international break, which increases the possibility that Unsworth could still land the post, even though Allardyce, Dyche, Silva and obviously Simeone have superior credentials. Allardyce is the easiest to hire as he is out of work, but the 63-year-old represents a short-term fix rather than a long-term solution. The Everton appointment is a massive gauge of their ambition. Surely, they should be aiming higher than simply Premier League survival?