Former Everton manager Carlo Ancelotti insisted his work with son Davide “isn’t finished yet” amid the Toffees expressing an interest in the 33-year-old.
Everton sounded out Davide, who is currently working with his father at Real Madrid, over the manager’s position after the sacking of Frank Lampard. The young coach is going nowhere, though, and the Merseyside club are now poised to appoint Sean Dyche as their new boss.
Davide Ancelotti spent time on Everton’s coaching staff while his father was in the dugout, joining in December 2019 and staying at Goodison Park until the end of the 2020-21 season, at which point he followed his old man to Real Madrid. He spent time with AC Milan as a player before deciding his future lay in coaching and worked under Carlo at PSG, Napoli and Bayern Munich before coming to England.
“Davide wants to be a coach. Someday he will be,” Carlo Ancelotti said.
“He is very happy here and me with him. The day I stop training or when he doesn’t decide he can leave.
“He has the ability to do it. At the moment we are very good here. Our work is not finished yet.”
Davide Ancelotti graduated in sports science after calling time on his playing career and earned a UEFA A licence in his mid-twenties. He was just 27 years old when he joined Bayern’s staff, having previously spent time as a fitness coach with PSG and Real Madrid during his father’s stints at those clubs in the early 2010s.
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Davide Ancelotti emerged as one of three primary managerial candidates after Lampard’s dismissal at Everton, along with Dyche and Marcelo Bielsa. Former Chelsea boss Lampard was sacked with the team in the Premier League’s bottom three, having gone eight games without a win and Dyche – who has been out of the management game since being sacked by Burnley in April 2022 – is on the verge of taking over.
The Italian spoke highly of Everton upon joining as an assistant during the 2019-20 season. “I had the opportunity to work for big clubs and I think Everton has everything to be at the same level because these facilities are amazing, one of the best facilities in Europe,” he told EvertonTV (via The Echo).
“What impressed me from the first day is the sense of belonging here, everyone loves this club and this feeling everyone has here is something you can feel from the first time and I was impressed by the fans, people that work here, it’s something different.
“It gives you that feeling, I’m the first Everton supporter now, being with [former Everton coach Duncan Ferguson] is something you can feel, it’s Everton, on the bench I’m really excited when we score.”
