Everton confirm Sam Allardyce has left his role as manager

Sam Allardyce says he knew he would be giving his marching orders by Everton TWO MONTHS before he was.

The axed Blues boss says he always thought he would be leaving Goodison Park long before his May departure.


And Big Sam says Everton should have told him his services weren’t going to be retained at the end of the season instead of “not saying”.
“I wanted to carry on,” Allardyce told Goals on Sunday .


“I went to Everton, not to do a ‘save me’ job, but to go and build a big club like that to greater things. With good finances behind it, which has been what Everton have been short of for a number of years, would’ve been the right way but it was not to be.

“In the end, I knew I was leaving about two months before I left.”
He added: “I’m too old and too wise not to know what is going on behind the scenes. If they thought they were keeping it quiet they don’t know how many people I know and what was going on behind the scenes but I kept professional.

“They should’ve just said: ‘Look Sam, you’ve done a fantastic job, thank-you but we are going to move on next season’. Instead of not saying that. Just say it! I’m a big man, I can say with all pride that I’ve done a fantastic job for Everton with the position they were in.”

“They wanted to go down a different direction and if they had said it I would’ve still been as professional as I was and done the job until the end of the season.”
Allardyce maintains he created an attractive style of football at Everton and criticism of him as a negative manager still grates.
“It goes down to the perception about the type of football we played and all that rubbish, which keeps rearing its ugly head,” he said.

“We played some really good football.

“If I had a negative way of playing, why did I sign Cenk Tosun and Theo Walcott?”