Marco Silva: Watford reject Everton approach for manager
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Watford have rejected an approach from Everton for their highly-rated Portuguese manager Marco Silva.
Silva, 40, has only been in charge for 11 Premier League games at Vicarage Road after leaving Hull City following their relegation last season.
Everton had made him their prime target to succeed the sacked Ronald Koeman, but the Hornets are determined to reject any attempts to lure Silva away.
It now remains to be seen whether the Toffees intensify their interest.
Everton under-23 coach David Unsworth is currently in caretaker charge after Koeman was sacked less than 24 hours after the 5-2 home defeat by Arsenal on 22 October.
Unsworth has won only one of his four games in charge, ironically a 3-2 victory against Silva's Watford after coming from two goals down.
Former England manager Sam Allardyce has been linked with the Everton job on a short-term basis, while Burnley's Sean Dyche is another name that has been touted as taking over at Goodison Park.
Silva, however, has now moved to the top of Everton's list to take over permanently from Koeman.
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Why would Everton want to appoint this clown, who I have never even heard of,
Brilliant 😂😂
So you haver never heard of him, but you think he is a clown?
Have you heard of Coco, or Buttons?
Now they were clowns.
Silva did an unbelievable job at Hull City and nearly kept them up...at one point they were top of the Form Tables ahead of Man City.......I wish so called football 'fans' knew what they were talking about.
Everton approached Watford.
Watford said no.
Everton leaked it to the press to unsettle the manager and try and tap him up.
Head to Arsenal instead of "delusional scousers"!
Us scousers (pop: 465,000) have won 27 League titles;
While you cockneys (pop: 8,877,000) have won 21...
I won't embarrass you more by mentioning European trophies!