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Moshiri plots audacious summer bid for Simeone

Lyndon Lloyd | Tuesday, 07 November 2017 130comments  |  Jump to last
Everton have made Diego Simeone their number one target to replace Ronald Koeman on a permanent basis and Farhad Moshiri is prepared to wait until the end of the season to land his man.

That's the claim of Sky Sports' Kaveh Solkehol, at least, which comes quickly on the heels of reports by his news outlet that the Blues' major shareholder held talks with Sam Allardyce over the weekend and that the former England boss is on a shortlist of four.

Sky now say that they have been told by "sources close to Allardyce" that talk of him being handed a £100,000-a-week contract at Goodison until the end of the season are "totally inaccurate".

David Unsworth is another alongside a "top European coach" and a current Premier League manager, assumed to be Burnley manager Sean Dyche or Watford's Marco Silva, who have done impressive jobs at Turf Moor on the one hand and Hull City and Vicarage Road on the other.

The European-based manager in question could be Simeone, with Sky suggesting Moshiri would hand him another massive transfer kitty to rival the biggest in the Premier League, but observers in Spain have ridiculed the idea that the Argentine would leave perennial Champions League contenders Atletico Madrid for Merseyside.

Regardless, it's another name for the betting markets, SkyBet included, to push during the downtime over another international break.

Another name regularly mentioned in connection with Everton is Thomas Tuchel, the German who made his name by transforming Mainz and winning the domestic cup with Borussia Dortmund but he is believed to be holding out for the Bayern Munich post vacated by Carlo Ancelotti.

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