David Moyes had never given up hope that Everton would summon him back but after the years of dreaming, the three or four times he came close to the job, the night he was told he had it, only to be informed the following morning it was instead going to Carlo Ancelotti,

Everton almost reappointed David Moyes on two separate occasions; Ronald Koeman was chosen over Moyes in 2016 and then Carlo Ancelotti pipped him to the job in 2019; Sky Sports News Alan Myers reveals