Everton fans right now are sinking into a pit of despair.

The first nine games of the current Premier League campaign saw the Toffees pick up just eight points, with five defeats.

This lacklustre run of poor performances saw manager Ronald Koeman lose his job, with academy manager and ex-player David Unsworth taking temporary charge of the first team.

The hierarchy at the summit of Everton Football Club, however, are eager to bring in a more experienced manager. The problem that lies here is that the two majority stakeholders, Bill Kenwright and Farhad Moshiri, have COMPLETELY different views.

To call Bill Kenwright a ‘traditionalist’ is an understatement. His track record for allowing managers such as David Moyes the chance to leave their imprint over the football club has had success in varying degrees. In the case of the Scotsman, Everton saw huge levels of development around the club, turning the Toffees from potential relegation candidates, to competing for European places on a consistent basis. This was enough for Moyes to earn himself a move to Manchester United in the summer of 2013, following the retirement of Sir Alex Ferguson.

In more recent years, Kenwright hasn’t seen much success, as Roberto Martinez couldn’t build from his first season in charge. Finishing just shy of the Champions League places on the final day of the 2013/14 season, Martinez couldn’t sustain this level of progression, eventually being sacked with the Toffees lingering around midtable.

After this came another intriguing appointment in the form of then-Southampton manager Ronald Koeman. The tactical Dutchman came with glittering praise from the British press. His ‘total football’ style of dominating possession, combining with efficient attacking prowess to land Southampton a space in the Europa League, their first European tournament.

This feat he managed to replicate with Everton in his first season in charge at Goodison Park. In the summer before this current campaign, Koeman was given £150 million (the largest budget in club history) to spend, bankrolled by new majority investor Farhad Moshiri, who left the Arsenal board to take on more responsibilities of running a football club.

It’s fair to say in hindsight now that their summer transfer action hasn’t translated into good results, suffering their worst start to a Premier League season since 1994. However, it remains to be seen who is to blame for their lack of acquiring a replacement for Belgian powerhouse Romelu Lukaku, who moved to Manchester United for £75 million.

Arsenal striker Olivier Giroud was very close to securing a move up north, but reconsidered due to assurances from Arsene Wenger that he would feature regularly.

But this is just one of the issues surrounding the hierarchy in charge at Goodison. On one hand, Bill Kenwright feels one way, and on the other hand, Farhad Moshiri has a polarising opinion.

This can be extrapolated into the ongoing manager debacle, with Farhad Moshiri wanting another ‘Hollywood star of football to stand on the touchline’, with Watford manager Marco Silva at the top of his wishlist.

Compare that with Kenwright, who would prefer Burnley manager Sean Dyche to be given an opportunity given the wonders he has worked over the years at Turf Moor.

An outside option emerging in the news today is former Crystal Palace and England manager Sam Allardyce, who has declared his interest in the job.

In my opinion, I think it would be of mutual interest for both Kenwright and Moshiri to appoint Sean Dyche. This is solely because Watford would not allow Marco Silva to exit after only joining at Vicarage Road in the summer.

Sean Dyche needs the chance, just like many of his British counterparts, to spread his wings and challenge his management skills with a better nucleus of players. I, for one, am certainly intrigued to see how he can cope with managing players with big personalities such as Wayne Rooney, and Gylfi Sigurdsson.

Whichever way Everton choose to go about appointing their next leader, the board need to agree unanimously. This is because Everton are lingering far too close to the relegation zone for fans’ liking, and sitting on the fence at this stage could prove to be a costly error.

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