Howe installed as top target to replace Silva

Lyndon Lloyd | Saturday, 30 November 2019 0comments | Jump to last

Everton are ready to make an approach to make Eddie Howe their new manager, according to Sunday tabloid speculation.

According to The Mirror, the Bournemouth boss has been installed as Farhad Moshiri's No 1 target to replace Marco Silva who, the report claims, will be sacked imminently even though Marcel Brands gave the Portuguese a vote of confidence of sorts in an interview on evertontv on Friday.

Silva takes his Everton into back-to-back away fixtures against the Premier League's top two sides with his future at Goodison Park in the balance and John Richardson writes that the club's hierarchy want Howe in place before the next home game with Chelsea so as to avoid the toxic atmosphere that greeted last Saturday's 2-0 defeat to Norwich.

Howe, reputedly a boyhood Everton fan, has been in charge at Bournemouth ever since he returned to Dean Court after an abortive spell at Burnley during which neither he nor his family were able to settle in the northwest.

His Cherries side made a good start to the season and beat Everton 3-1 at the Vitality Stadium but they have recorded just one win in their last nine games, exhibiting the same defensive frailties that look like they might cost Silva his job at Goodison.