EVERTON ANNOUNCES KOEMAN EXIT

Coach dismissed after heavy defeat at home against Arsenal

Everton announced on Monday that Ronald Koeman had stepped down as head coach after reaching an agreement with the Dutch to end the contract linking the parties since the summer of 2016 following the heavy defeat against Arsenal, suffered at home (5-2).

This was their third defeat in the last four games, which relegated the toffees to the Premier League relegation zone in a season where they expected much more from the team against the investment made in reinforcements, for a total of 158.2 million euros - stand out Wayne Rooney (Manchester United), Gylfi Sigurdsson (Swansea), Jordan Pickford (Sunderland) and Michael Keane (Burnley).

"Everton confirms that Ronald Koeman has left the club. President Bill Kenwright, principals and major shareholder Farhad Moshiri would like to express gratitude to Ronald for his services to the club over the past 16 months and for leading the club to 7th place in last season of the Premier League ", reads in a note placed in the site of the toffees.

David Unsworth, manager of Everton's Under-23 team, will take over the job on an interim basis. The nine-day club has two wins, two draws and five defeats, to visit Leicester on Sunday.