Despite what anyone claims on this forum I believe the chances of getting Mourinho are minute. However there is seemingly another highly successful party interested. From The Independent:
Rafael Benitez would consider the prospect of succeeding Roberto Martinez as Everton manager if approached, though he was on Thursday night weighing up whether to led Newcastle United’s attempts to return to the Premier League.
The Goodison Park position would be an ideal fit for the Spaniard, whose wife and daughters are still based on Merseyside, though the Independent understands he is unconvinced that the club’s chairman Bill Kenwright and new major shareholder Farha Moshiri would want a former Liverpool manager to succeed 42-year-old Martinez, who was sacked after a run of one win in ten. Frank de Boer, whose departure from Ajax was announced on Thursday after his agent said at the weekend he would “love to join a club like Everton” is the current front runner.
Benitez feels that Everton’s supporters may not set their faces against his appointment and considers the Everton job to be a fine opportunity for whoever takes it, with a very strong group of players in Ross Barkley, Romelu Lukaku and James McCarthy who are ready-made contenders for European football. But he knows there is sensitivity attached, owing to the rivalry which existed between him and David Moyes when the two were Merseyside managers between 2004 and 2010.
