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title: "Everton: Jermaine Beckford would love to see Carlo Ancelotti become Toffees manager"
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language: "en-GB"
author: "Stephan Georgiou"
section: "Everton"
published: "2019-12-11T21:20:22Z"
modified: "2019-12-11T21:20:22Z"
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# Everton: Jermaine Beckford would love to see Carlo Ancelotti become Toffees manager

**Former Everton striker Jermaine Beckford isn’t getting too excited about the likelihood of Carlo Ancelotti taking over at Goodison Park – but believes the Italian would be a ‘fantastic fit’ for the club.**

Ancelotti has been [linked](https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11671/11883490/carlo-ancelotti-sacked-by-napoli-amid-everton-and-arsenal-links) with the vacant Toffees post since being sacked by Napoli on Tuesday, though despite Beckford not getting his hopes up of the [three-time Champions League winner](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/carlo-ancelotti/erfolge/trainer/523) arriving in the blue half of Liverpool, he nevertheless talked up the prospect of Everton attracting such a name.

[Beckford](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/13441014) scored the only goal for Everton in what proved to be Ancelotti’s final game as a Premier League manager – though has stated he would love to see him return.

He said (via [Sky Sports](https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11671/11883490/carlo-ancelotti-sacked-by-napoli-amid-everton-and-arsenal-links)): “I think he’d be a fantastic fit. Do I think he’ll go? I don’t think he will.

“Not when you look at the jobs available at the moment. I would love to see him there. He’s tried and tested and he knows what the league’s all about.

“\[His teams\] are tough to break down. They tend to play with a lot of confidence as well. That’s something that both Everton and Arsenal are lacking.

“But he’s got to be there for a project, long-term. You can’t jump into a relegation battle with his CV, that’s not necessarily what he’s good at.”

Despite his kind words, Beckford spells out the case for Ancelotti to turn down a role at Everton, which may suggest he would not be suited to what are perhaps the immediate concerns of the club as they continue to languish in the [lower regions](https://www.skysports.com/premier-league-table) of the table.

Meanwhile, the vacancies around Europe that Beckford alludes to (namely perhaps [Arsenal](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/50532493) and Ancelotti’s former employers [Bayern Munich](https://www.espn.co.uk/football/bayern-munich/story/3980477/bayern-munich-sack-niko-kovac-as-manager)) appear to represent the kind of task that the Italian has taken on throughout his managerial career.

In fact, Beckford hardly backs up his claim that Ancelotti would be a great fit, having been rather contradictory in his assessment of the respective situations of the club and the 60-year-old himself.

Perhaps his prior achievements are merely leaving Beckford dreaming of likewise success for his former club, though it seems the realistic probability is that Ancelotti’s future lies elsewhere.

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