Everton: 5 options to replace Carlo Ancelotti who left for Real Madrid

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Nuno Espirito Santo left Wolves at the end of this season

2. Nuno Espirito Santo

Nuno Espirito Santo has done a fantastic job with Wolves in last four years. NES has taken a club convincingly to the Premier League in 2018, a club that had spent 26 seasons out of last 30 outside of the Top Flight.

He guided Wolves to Championship triumph in 2017 and then managed to take the sleepy town of Wolverhampton to two back to back seventh-place finishes and also to the quarter finals of the UEFA Europa League in 2020, helping Wolves make a return to European competition after a generational absence of 39 years. It is worth noting that, all of this happened with Santo managing one of the smallest squads in the Premier League.

The 2020-21 season didn’t go as per plan but we have to take into consideration that the side lost Raul Jimenez for most parts of the season due to injury, sold Diogo Jota and Matt Doherty in the summer, which straight away accounted to losing close to 55% of the total team goals of the 2019-20 season.

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Santo has a distinct style and wants his team to use intensity and be extremely physical. Everton have been smothered for not playing with intensity and pace. Santo predominantly used the 3-4-3 formation with attacking wing backs like Doherty and Nelson Semedo and pulled off some big wins.

Yes, at Wolves, he had one of the biggest football agents, Jorge Mendes, helping him and bringing in talents like Jimenez, Jota, Neves, Rui Patricio, Joao Moutinho, Semedo and others. In fact, Santo’s profile is also managed by Mendes and the duo are very close friends.

If NES arrives at Everton, there is no reason to believe that Mendes won’t conduct business with Everton and offer young and exciting players to the Toffees. This could probably be one of the added benefits of having Santo in the Everton dugout. He’s different from Carlo Ancelotti and has a distinct style of using physicality and force in his teams and could be a strong candidate

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