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Brands and Fonseca to lead another shake-up at Everton

Lyndon Lloyd | Wednesday, 28 March 2018 128comments  |  Jump to last
Sam Allardyce and Steve Walsh will step aside this summer to make way for Paulo Fonseca and Marcel Brands, according to a new report.

Following a claim to the same effect in the Daily Star earlier this month, The Mirror are saying that Fonseca has been lined up to replace Allardyce who was brought in on an 18-month contract last November.

The 63-year-old has fulfilled his immediate brief of keeping the Blues in the Premier League but if this report — the journalist, John Richardson, is not renowned for being especially clued up about affairs at Goodison — and rumours on Merseyside that would seem to support it are true, Farhad Moshiri does not view him as a longer-term option.

Fonseca will be out of contract at Shakhtar Donetsk this summer having guided the Ukrainian side out of the group stages of the Champions League.

Brands, meanwhile, has earned a stellar reputation as sporting director at PSV Eindhoven and talks are believed to have been held with him about coming on board as Everton's director of football.

That would place a question mark over Walsh's future. He arrived the summer before last fresh from the accolades of having unearthed some of Leicester City's greatest finds but has overseen a very mixed transfer strategy at Everton.

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