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Carlo Ancelotti has called Duncan Ferguson and urged him to seize the moment as the Everton legend prepares for his latest managerial audition.
At the end of another turbulent week for Everton, which began with the sacking of Rafa Benitez and featured major shareholder Farhad Moshiri pumping another £100million of equity into the club, all eyes will be on Goodison Park this lunchtime for a crucial game against Aston Villa.
Everton arrive into this contest on the back of the worst run of form in the Premier League – six points from the last 39 – but Ferguson puffed out his chest on Friday and insisted relegation was not even in his thinking, as he sought to galvanise a response from this underachieving squad.
Carlo Ancelotti gave Duncan Ferguson a confidence boost over the phone earlier this week
There was something reassuring for Evertonians about seeing Ferguson, a club totem, facing the cameras and he made it clear he had delivered a number of 'home truths' to the players who are temporarily under his charge. The question is why can't he have the permanent opportunity?
When pressed about his ambitions to succeed Benitez, Ferguson – who is not a natural self-publicist – was self-deprecating. It was significant, then, that he revealed that Ancelotti, with whom he had such a strong relationship, had
