Tim Cahill is being considered for senior executive role at Everton
Tim Cahill could return to Everton in a senior executive role, on top of a new managerial appointment being made, according to Sky Sports.
The Australian spent eight years at Goodison making nearly 300 appearances, and is his national side’s record goalscorer with 50 goals.
The former director of football on Merseyside, Marcel Brands, left the role in December and has so far not been replaced.
Sky Sports News reported live on Tuesday afternoon (18 January 03.00pm): “Tim Cahill is being considered for a senior executive role at the club.
“Evertonians [are] hoping not only do they get the managerial appointment right, but also hoping that they get the structure around the new manager right as well”
Getting the band back together
With the situation at Everton nothing short of disastrous currently, it appears that the ownership has turned to their own books to consider names to bring back in.
Some returns will certainly be more popular than others, with a reported willingness to give the manager’s job back to Roberto Martinez (The Guardian) looking unlikely to be successful.
Bringing back characters who were more successful at Goodison and should still be popular among fans would not be a bad idea at the current juncture however.
If Duncan Ferguson is given the manager’s job, or Wayne Rooney is brought in from Derby County, the atmosphere should lift in the stands.
Ex-Millwall man Cahill should be similarly popular after an extended run as a key player in the David Moyes era, but whether it is a good sign that he is be considered for a front office role might raise a few questions.
The decision-makers at the top, Farhad Moshiri and Bill Kenwright, have not proven that they can make the right moves in the years since the owner took charge.
They need to be challenged to a greater extent if the club is to avoid another situation such as the appointment of Rafael Benitez.
But, as with the recent move to make club legend Graeme Sharp a non-executive director, bringing in Cahill at board level feels like it could be more for the good PR among fans than to make real changes.
The Mail reports that the 42-year-old Australian is the chief sports officer at the Aspire Academy in the UAE and on the board at Belgium’s KAS Eupen, but whether that experience would give him the ability to go against the ownership is a question.
In other Everton news, the club reportedly still want to sign this big-money PL misfit.