There is no point signing Ancelotti unless you are going to give him the tools he needs to do his job. He is arguably the greatest manager of great players in the world. I took the capture of Ancelotti to mean we will spend what we need to become properly competitive. The types of players Marco Silva and Sam Allardyce signed are not the types of player Carlo Ancelotti is renowned for managing.
I expect a massive summer of spending - now easier to manage, if the money is truly there, as UEFA's authority - and that of the PL - is compromised by their meek response to the Super League Six. Otherwise, Carlo makes zero sense and we'd be better off with a coach who can improve mediocre players while using us as a stepping stone to really big clubs like our neighbours.
People may not like hearing it, but if Everton do not find the money to back Ancelotti, Everton is being utterly mismamaged from the top because he is not the right man to take middling players into the top four - or we are not the truly big club we were and aspire to be again. If that is the case, the Ancelotti-as-manager situation is another example of us buying proven talent and not giving him the right tools. It's like buying a player like James Rodriguez and surrounding him with Alex Iwobi and Tom Davies.
This summer will tell a tale.