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Reports: Benitez in the frame to become new Everton manager Wednesday, 16 June, 2021
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Rafael Benitez has re-emerged as a candidate for the Everton manager s job amid suggestions that the club s talks with Nuno Espirito Santo have stalled.
The Blues hierarchy are reported to have held advanced talks with Espirito Santo last week but there are suggestions that the demands around the size of his backroom staff that Nuno made, which supposedly scuppered his appointment at Crystal Palace, could also be the cause of the Everton s hesitancy to confirm him as the next incumbent in the Goodison Park hot-seat.
Claims that emerged on Wednesday, beginning with TalkSport presenter, Jim White, who has close ties to Farhad Moshiri, have it that Benitez is in talks with Everton and is the likely man to succeed Carlo Ancelotti. That was followed by a report from Sky Sports that the Spaniard has held talks with Moshiri but has yet to be offered the job although, a