Everton are planning to sack Sam Allardyce this week.

The Mirror says Allardyce will be sacked as Everton manager within the next 48 hours.

And former Hull and Watford boss Marco Silva has emerged as the number one pick to succeed him, despite complications relating to his departure from Vicarage Road.

After weeks of uncertainty over his future, Blues owner Farhad Moshiri will finally pull the trigger on the manager he hired only last November in a desperate attempt then to stop the club's slide into the relegation zone.

Allardyce will be summoned to a meeting within the next two days to be given the news his contract, that has a year to run, will be terminated.