Frank Lampard is hanging by a thread as Everton find themselves once again firmly embroiled in a relegation scrap.
But who replaces him if he goes? The top 10 ranked by latest odds at oddschecker.com is a very, very, very mixed bag…
1. Wayne Rooney
We’re quite big fans of retirement Rooney, who seems a man entirely at ease with himself, did a dignified job in impossible circumstances at Derby and speaks entertainingly and adroitly on a game he clearly still adores on his increasingly frequent media appearances. It would nevertheless be spectacularly, monumentally Everton to have a quick look around how well returning legends have done as Premier League managers recently and conclude that it’s a road they wish to take. Ergo, a worthy favourite.
2. Sean Dyche
The two joint favourites sum up the two paths open to Everton if they bin off Frank Lampard as surely they must no matter how much the latest Bambi killing would vex His Majesty’s Press Corps. If Rooney offers the romantic, heart-over-head option, Dyche offers realism over the current circumstances under which the club currently operates and what its realistic short-to-medium-term goals should be. Namely, remaining a Premier League club beyond May.
3. David Moyes
Going back for a second spell at West Ham worked out pretty well (until it didn’t) so maybe it would be the same at Everton (it wouldn’t). It says a vast amount about both Moyes and Everton that this grimly unimaginative and surely doomed idea seems altogether too plausible once either the Toffees or the Hammers pull the trigger and set off some good old-fashioned managerial merry-go-round dominoes. Some mixed metaphors for you, there, but really you should just be grateful we didn’t make any attempt to do anything with “Toffee Hammer”. We’re also intrigued by the idea of both Moyes and Lampard leaving their current clubs for a former club in a mad job swap that benefits absolutely nobody. For this very reason, we really want it to happen.
4. Roberto Martinez
It would go against Martinez’s tried-and-tested managerial method of failing upwards, but is also an unimaginatively disastrous idea that it can’t quite be ruled out because Everton.
5. Duncan Ferguson
What if, and this might blow minds so go with us here, the next Everton manager could be someone who hasn’t previously played for and/or managed the club? It’s quite a thought.
6. Ange Postecoglou
Now that’s a bit more like it. Finally, a name that…
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