'Davide can leave when he wants' – Real Madrid's Carlo Ancelotti on Everton links

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Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti has insisted his son Davide can leave 'when he wants' amid rumours of a possible move to Everton

Carlo Ancelotti watches Everton with his son Davide at Goodison Park after taking over as manager in December 2019.
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Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti insists his son Davide can 'leave when he wants' amid rumours of a possible move to Everton for his assistant.

Davide is one of the names strongly linked with the vacant managerial post at Goodison Park following the sacking of Frank Lampard earlier in the week.

Asked in a press conference on Saturday whether his son could join Everton, where the pair worked together between 2019 and 2021, Ancelotti said: "Davide wants to be a manager.

"One day, it will happen. He's really good here. The day that I stop coaching or when he decides to, he can leave. He has the ability."

But the 63-year-old added: "At the moment, we're really good here. Our work has not finished."

Davide Ancelotti was a youth player at AC Milan, but never made a senior appearance for the Rossoneri and retired at the age of 20 to concentrate on a coaching career.

He has worked alongside his father at Bayern Munich, Napoli, Everton and Real Madrid.

Ben Hayward
Ben Hayward
Weekend editor

Ben Hayward is a European football writer and Tottenham Hotspur fan with over 15 years’ experience, he has covered games all over the world - including three World Cups, several Champions League finals, Euros, Copa America - and has spent much of that time in Spain. Ben speaks English and Spanish, currently dividing his time between Barcelona and London, covering all the big talking points of the weekend on FFT: he’s also written several list features and interviewed Guglielmo Vicario for the magazine.