JOSE MOURINHO is clear favourite to be Everton’s next manager.
That’s according to bookmakers talkSPORT BET, who’ve priced the legendary Portuguese coach at 8/11 following the departure of Sean Dyche on Thursday.
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Dyche, 53, was handed his marching orders with Everton in the midsts of yet another relegation battle.
The Toffees are sat in 16th position, just two places and one point above the relegation zone.
Everton have managed just three league wins all season against Ipswich Town, Crystal Palace and Wolves with just 15 goals scored in 19 matches – only rock-bottom Southampton have netted less.
With wins, goals and creativity in desperately short supply, Everton’s new owners, Friedkin Group, decided to part ways with Dyche just hours before their FA Cup clash against Peterborough.
A statement from the club’s official website said: “Everton Football Club can confirm that Sean Dyche has been relieved of his duties as Senior Men’s First Team Manager with immediate effect.
“Ian Woan, Steve Stone, Mark Howard and Billy Mercer have also left the Club. The process to appoint a new manager is under way and an update will be provided in due course.
“Under-18s Head Coach Leighton Baines and Club Captain Seamus Coleman will take charge of first-team affairs on an interim basis.”
The writing may well have been on the wall following Saturday’s defeat to Bournemouth, in which Everton failed to register a single shot on target.
Under Dyche, Everton also have the division’s lowest expected goals (xG) rate and the lowest goals per game rate of 0.79 (the lowest number for the team in the past 13 seasons).
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But who could succeed him on Merseyside?
talkSPORT BET have installed Jose Mourinho as the frontrunner at odds-on 8/11 if Dyche receives his marching orders.
Mourinho, who has previously managed Chelsea, Manchester United and Tottenham in the Premier League, is currently in Turkey with Fenerbahce.
The Portuguese, 61, guided Friedkin Group-owned Roma to their first major European trophy in the inaugural Europa Conference League final before being relieved of his duties after two-and-a-half years.
Former Everton boss David Moyes is next in the betting markets at 4/1.
The Scot was in charge of Everton for 11 years and is currently without a job after leaving West Ham United at the end of last season.
Further back is West Ham-linked Graham Potter at 6/1, Edin Terzic and Brentford’s Thomas Frank share a price of 12/1 with Steve Cooper available at 16/1.
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