After having held talks with Everton owner Farhad Moshiri, manager Sam Allardyce believes he will still be manager next season.
Although Moshiri couldn’t give Allardyce any guarantees over his future with the club, the defiant boss claims that having discussed plans for next season, he can’t see himself being given the boot.
Allardyce credits this plan-making as a sign that he is wanted to continue, despite the level of criticism and calls for his sacking coming from the Everton fanbase. On the subject of his meeting, Allardyce said;
We discussed next season and if I wasn’t going to be here, why would we be discussing next season at great length?
I think that I have found Farhad nothing but supportive from day one and still just as supportive on Thursday.
What they asked me to do, I’ve done. I can’t do any more than what I’ve achieved up to this point. Well, yes I could. We could have got better results and more points, but I think under the circumstances when you look at the overall position, I think we’ve achieved a lot.
Despite many calling for Moshiri to publicly back Allardyce if he does indeed want him to continue next season, Allardyce has defended the former Arsenal shareholder’s decision not to. He continued;
Clarity is the fact I’ve had a meeting with him and I’m telling you the meeting was about what’s happening next season.
Farhad doesn’t feel the need to come out and say anything publicly, so I’m saying we had a meeting yesterday to discuss next season’s plans, pre-season and players and which direction we’re going to go in.
By the fact we’ve had the meeting, he’s in the position where he doesn’t feel he needs to come out and say anything.
If he did, you would say ‘oh, he’s had the dreaded vote of confidence’.
