Everton welcome Arsenal at Goodison Park on Saturday in the Premier League and both these sides are on the verge of appointing a new manager(at the time of writing this article).
While Arsenal are bringing in former player Mikel Arteta as the replacement to Unai Emery, the Toffees are securing Carlo Ancelotti as their next job.
And many people feel that this bold move from Everton proves that they mean business and also that the Arsenal job is not desirable anymore.
Even Martin Samuel, writing for The Daily Mail has claimed that Carlo Ancelotti is a man who is proven to bring success with him.
He wrote: “Bringing in Ancelotti shows they mean business, just as it did when Leicester recruited Brendan Rodgers, or Tottenham replaced Mauricio Pochettino with Jose Mourinho. It does not guarantee success but it sends a message about where Everton want to go.
“No club that employs Ancelotti is happy treading water.
“They have, after all, tried it the conventional way.
“They’ve had Wigan’s manager, Watford’s manager, Southampton’s manager. They’ve employed Sam Allardyce. None of this has made a dent on the elite. Maybe Ancelotti won’t either. Football is very protectionist.
“It is designed to be unfriendly to interlopers these days. Ancelotti will know that too. It is why his appointment is such a surprise.
“Ancelotti moves between football’s elites. He takes stellar players who are underperforming, or where change is enforced and buffs them until they shine.”
While Arsenal are not bringing in a novice but the stature of Mikel Arteta is nowhere close to what Ancelotti holds.
The former Real Madrid boss unlike the other Italian managers before him know fully well what it’s like to manage a club in England so there will be no need to settle down and adjust to the environment.
Arteta, on the other hand, will need to first win over the dressing room and will have to try and convince the big names that he can actually take the club forward unlike Unai Emery.
