Carlo Ancelotti has called Duncan Ferguson and urged him to seize the moment as the Everton legend prepares for his latest managerial audition.
At the end of another turbulent week for Everton, which began with the sacking of Rafa Benitez and featured major shareholder Farhad Moshiri pumping another £100million of equity into the club, all eyes will be on Goodison Park this lunchtime for a crucial game against Aston Villa.
Everton arrive into this contest on the back of the worst run of form in the Premier League – six points from the last 39 – but Ferguson puffed out his chest on Friday and insisted relegation was not even in his thinking, as he sought to galvanise a response from this underachieving squad.