Everton are confident of unveiling Marco Silva as their new manager this week.
Negotiations have continued to progress with the Blues hierarchy preparing to hand the ex-Watford boss a three-year contract as Sam Allardyce’s successor.
Confirmation of Silva’s appointment is likely to coincide with Marcel Brands beginning his role as Goodison Park’s new director of football on Friday.
Brands was named as Steve Walsh’s successor on the same day that Everton parted with Allardyce and formally begins his role on June 1.
However the former PSV Eindhoven chief has been a driving force in the club’s renewed plans to appoint Silva, having failed to land him in November.
Watford lodged a formal complaint to the Premier League over Everton’s ‘unwarranted approach’ for the 40-year-old midway through last season.
But the clubs are understood to have reached an amicable agreement to end the stand-off which has paved the way for Silva’s imminent appointment.