Everton are set to announce Steve Walsh as the club’s new Director of Football.
Talks with the 51-year-old are progressing after the Blues agreed a compensation package with Leicester City for their assistant manager and head of recruitment.
An initial approach to the Foxes was rejected for the man widely credited with masterminding the club’s remarkable Premier League success in identifying signings like Riyad Mahrez, Jamie Vardy and N’Golo Kante.
And despite recently pledging his future to the King Power Stadium until summer 2018, Everton were intent on landing the former Chelsea scout.
Attention from Goodison Park turned to Walsh following their failure to land Sevilla’s director of football Monchi as well as seeing Marc Overmars remain with Ajax.