Everton manager latest: Koeman and Monchi dream team targeted
Everton keen to land big name duo as Moshiri thinks big
- Everton keen to land big name duo as Moshiri thinks big
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Monchi & Ronald Koeman
Everton want to team Ronald Koeman with renowned Sevilla sporting director Monchi in an ambitious twist to their search for a new manager.
The Blues have renewed hope of luring Southampton boss Koeman to Goodison and are pushing hard to prise Monchi from Seville.
They are prepared to offer the Dutchman in the region of £6m-a-year to take the job, and won't blink at the prospect of paying the £3.8m it would require to buy Monchi out of his contract at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan stadium.
Koeman arrives home from holiday last night, and reports emerged from Holland this morning claiming that him and agent Rob Jansen were due on Merseyside to talk terms later today.
That is understood to be wide of the mark however, with both Everton chairman Bill Kenwright and majority investor Farhad Moshiri based in London.
London-based Dutch TV correspondent Tim De Wit's tweet
It will remain a challenge to convince first-choice Koeman that his future lies at Goodison, with the possibility of a shot at the Arsenal job on the horizon if he stays at St Mary's and maintains the Saints upward trajectory in the Premier League.
Farhad Moshiri and Bill Kenwright
But it seems his head has been turned by the scale of Moshiri's ambition, with the Iranian billionaire determined to make statements of intent in his managerial appointment and subsequent activity in the transfer market this summer; when world-class names will be targeted with a huge budget.