Ancelotti set to dump £45m star after reading riot act
Carlo Ancelotti read the riot act after his side’s shambolic FA Cup Merseyside derby defeat.
The Everton boss questioned the attitude of his players during an angry dressing-room blast.
Just four games since taking over as manager, Italian Ancelotti has already lost patience with a number of them, with Gylfi Sigurdsson among those he is expected to dump as soon as he can.
The £45million Icelandic playmaker admitted after the 1-0 third-round defeat to Liverpool that Toffees’ players were fighting for their futures.
But SunSport understands Ancelotti has already given up on the 30-year-old, who has 18 months to run on his £5m-a-year Goodison contract.
Sigurdsson will be the biggest name in a cull of Goodison failures that will include Cenk Tosun, Theo Walcott, Morgan Schneiderlin and possibly Michael Keane.
England keeper Jordan Pickford should also be wary of his place following a season of ups and downs.
Ancelotti, now planning to go into the January transfer market, has ordered director of football Marcel Brands to find him a top-class goalkeeper to rival the Three Lions’ No 1.
Meanwhile, the Toffees boss is planning to promote highly regarded teenage prospect Anthony Gordon for Saturday’s visit of Brighton.
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The Liverpool-born forward, 18, who won the league and cup double with the Under-23s last season, made an appearance from the bench in last month’s Carabao Cup exit to Leicester on penalties.
Ancelotti said: “Anthony Gordon is working with us. I see a lot of quality in him.
“We have to be patient with him but he has the quality to be at the top level.”