Another great post mate.
It's very hard to really knows what's happening. It's clear te board is very split, in at least 2 directions currently. Two directions that have very different visions of where Everton want to be. This is also not helped by one side in this (Moshiri) is unclear of exactly how seriously backed his project is.
I think that confusion lingers around football too. It's probably what allows us to make a credible ploy for Simeone on the one hand and wonder if we can prize Dyche/ Silva on the other.
Allardyce is now on the drift. Every day that goes by where he's not appointed will lessen his prospects. Thankfully I think the whole board are United around the idea he is here for 6 months.
Anyone who knows Allardyce knows he will not want that. He's built a narrative, egged on by Keys and Gray (et al) that old white men are not given jobs in football not on account of lack of ability but because essentially a bunch of politically correct pinkos run the game. You cant make derogatory sexual remarks or openly brag about undermining FA rules on transfers and get away with it anymore. They just want foreigners and women running our game. That type of rhetoric.
The idea that Allardyce saves Everton only to hand over his success to another (likely foreign) manager will be too much for him to agree too. It would be him signing up to the idea he is the reason he hasn't been given a top job. He sees Everton as his last chance. No amount of money will make him forego this.
As it stands I can see us sleepwalking into appointing Unsworth particularly if he avoids defeat at Palace.
