Next Everton boss: Sean Dyche and Marcelo Bielsa form eclectic top two in betting
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Frank Lampard has finally been relieved of his duties as Everton find themselves once again firmly embroiled in a relegation scrap.
But who replaces him? The top 10 ranked by latest odds at oddschecker.com is a very, very, very mixed bag…
1) Sean Dyche
If Wayne Rooney offers the romantic, heart-over-head option, Dyche offers realism over the current circumstances under which the club currently operates and what its realistic short-to-medium-term goals should be. Namely, remaining a Premier League club beyond May. Despite nonsense claims to the contrary, he would surely jump at the chance.
2) Marcelo Bielsa
It’s a hard yes from us but surely a hard no from the universe, which simply won’t allow us this amount of fun.
3) Wayne Rooney
We’re quite big fans of retirement Rooney, who seems a man entirely at ease with himself, did a dignified job in impossible circumstances at Derby and speaks entertainingly and adroitly on a game he clearly still adores on his increasingly frequent media appearances. It would nevertheless be spectacularly, monumentally Everton to have a quick look around how well returning legends have done as Premier League managers recently and conclude that it’s a road they wish to take.
4) Ralph Hasenhuttl
The last Premier League manager before Frank Lampard to be sacked could end up being his replacement. Because what Everton are missing from this clusterf*** of a season is a 9-0 defeat.
5) Nuno
The Portuguese manager almost took the job in 2021 after he left Wolves. Instead, he went to Spurs and Everton appointed Rafa Benitez. Both were disastrous decisions. Nuno now finds himself in Saudi Arabia bossing Al-Ittihad. Everton have his number and he may well be happy if the Toffees dialled his digits.
6) David Moyes
Going back for a second spell at West Ham worked out pretty well (until it didn’t) so maybe it would be the same at Everton (it wouldn’t). It says a vast amount about both Moyes and Everton that this grimly unimaginative and surely doomed idea seems altogether too plausible once either the Toffees or the Hammers pull the trigger and set off some good old-fashioned managerial merry-go-round dominoes. Some mixed metaphors for you, there, but really you should just be grateful we didn’t make any attempt to do anything with ‘Toffee Hammer’. We’re also intrigued by the idea of both Moyes and Lampard leaving their current clubs for a former club in a mad job swap that benefits absolutely nobody. For this very reason, we really want it to happen.
7) Duncan Ferguson
The third name on this list to have already spent some time at Everton in some capacity. Actually, make that every capacity. Apparently he is a ‘strong contender’ to return for a third caretaker spell despite winning only one of his previous five games in the role. Everton that.
8) Leighton Baines
Currently a youth-team coach at Everton, he would at least have the advantage over Ferguson that he has not managed Everton before.
9) Sam Allardyce
This would he incredibly on-brand but surely even Farhad Moshiri would not head down this path? He would, wouldn’t he? Of all the former Everton managers he could choose…
10) Domenico Tedesco
As we suspect Everton employ on very much a ‘have we heard of this fella?’ basis, the chances of them appointing the man who won silverware with RB Leipzig is somewhere between slim and none.