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Everton will have a whole new backroom team under Marco Silva at Finch Farm, but the names are very familiar to the Portuguese coach.

Today's announcement that Marco Silva will be the new Blues boss also revealed that: "Everton’s new manager will be joined by his staff – assistant manager João Pedro, goalkeeping coach Hugo Olivera, technical scout Antonis Lemonakis and fitness coach Pedro Conceição."

Collectively they are known as ...

Team Silva

Marco Silva has a tight team who have worked with him since his first management job at Estoril in 2011.

Wheverer Marco Silva has gone in the last seven years - and he has had five jobs in that time - compatriots Pedro Conceição and João Pedro Sousa have gone too.

Added to that mix is larger than life goalkeeping coach Hugo Oliveira, who joined Silva in his two English jobs at Hull City and Watford.

They form Team Silva.

Joao Pedro Sousa - Assistant

Long time friend and colleague, Sousa joined Silva at Estoril and has remained by his side ever since, taking a hands-on role on the training pitch.

Sousa takes the lead on the training pitch and has known Silva since 1998, when they played together at Trofense in the Portuguese league.

Sousa started his career as an Under-19 coach at Braga and teamed up with Silva again at Estoril.

Their partnership proved an immediate success, with Estoril promoted from the Segunda Liga in 2011/12, before finishing fifth and qualifying for Europe in 2012/13.

After that the pair moved to Portuguese giants Sporting Lisbon, where they again enjoyed success, finishing third in the league and winning the Portuguese Cup, before bizarrely being sacked.

Officially a 400-page document outlined how Sporting had acted with ‘just cause’ after what they deemed had been a number of disciplinary infringements - including not wearing the official club suit to a cup match, six months previously.

But in reality Silva was bombed because Jorge Jesus, a former player and highly-reputable Benfica-coach, had become available.

Sporting handed him €6million-a-year - six times more than his predecessor.

The duo moved on to Olympiakos where they won the Greek League in their sole season in charge, before resigning.

Pedro Conceição - First-Team coach

Pedro already had an extensive CV before joining up with Silva at Estoril, beginning within the youth set-ups at Sporting and Benfica, before senior roles with Portimonense, Braga and a three-year stint in Saudi Arabia.

Pedro took the warm-ups at Hull and Watford, as well as leading on fitness and workload monitoring.

His coaching career began with youth teams at Benfica and Sporting Lisbon, before he moved to Saudi Arabia to coach at first, the national Olympic team, and then at wealthy club side Al Ahli.

Silva brought him home to Portugal to work at Estoril and they have been together ever since.

Hugo Oliveira - Goalkeeping coach

Oliveira has fifteen years’ experience in Portugal, his highest profile roles coming at Benfica, where he worked with international ‘keepers Julio Cesar and Jan Oblak, and with the Portuguese national side under Carlos Queiroz.

A lively and engaging character, he was popular with the goalkeepers at Hull and Watford.

Oliveira worked under Carlos Queiroz with the Portuguese national team - a stint that included the 2010 World Cup.

In July 2011, he moved to giants Benfica, where he stayed for six years, before the call came from Silva and Hull.

With Margetson having left he would slot seamlessly in to the goalkeeping set-up.

Antonis Lemonakis - technical scout

Another of Silva's trusted aides, Lemonakis, 47, worked alongside the Portuguese at Watford where he enjoyed the title Data Analyst.

He first joined forces with Silva at Olympiakos, after an earlier spell at PAOK in Greece.

What now for Duncan Ferguson and Ryland Morgans?

Duncan Ferguson and Ryland Morgans were not part of the May cull which saw Craig Shakespeare, Sammy Lee, Martyn Margetson and Steve Walsh exit Everton - and were confirmed today as remaining with the club.

Ferguson has worked under three different Everton managers since stepping up from his role as an Academy coach in 2014 and is popular with the playing staff.

Cenk Tosun is an experienced Turkish international, but still credited the former Scottish international with improving his game.

After scoring twice at Stoke City this season Tosun revealed: “I work on my game after training with Duncan Ferguson. He was a legend of Everton and he has helped me a lot.

“We work together on my physique and on my shooting so I can do better on the pitch.”

Morgans also enjoys a glowing reputation in the game.

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He joined Everton in December last year having spent four years with Liverpool, then worked with the Wales national team and Allardyce at Crystal Palace. When he left Anfield Jurgen Klopp said: “Ryland is a fantastic professional and a really good guy.

“Wherever he works next, they will be extremely fortunate to have someone of his capabilities.”

After so much upheaval recently, Everton now crave continuity.

New Director of Football Marcel Brands told a Dutch press conference recently: “They (Everton) want to change from the typical English model where the control and supervision is with the manager.

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“They now want continuity. Over the last few years they have changed (managers) too much; too many players come and go.

“Now they want a different set-up. I am not sure you can solve all the problems they have in one summer but there is a new structure. I am looking forward to the challenge.”

Duncan Ferguson and Ryland Morgans will offer some of that continuity, with David Unsworth and John Ebbrell also continuing their outstanding work with the Youth Academy