Sam Allardyce claims he was sacked by Everton due to ‘false lies’ about his reputation.
The one-time England manager was installed as Ronald Koeman’s successor midway through last season and guided the Blues to an eighth-place finish.
But Allardyce found himself deposed barely a week after the previous campaign had ended and replaced in the Goodison Park hot seat by Marco Silva.
Now, the 64-year-old has slammed Everton’s decision to part with him as ‘ludicrous’ and believes he would have gone on to make further on-field progress.
“Everybody walks around talking about Sam Allardyce’s style is not good enough, he doesn’t play the right way and so on and so forth and it is a massive problem for me,” he told TalkSport.
“People believe it. You believe the false lies, the false implications. Football does that – it believes that lie sometimes.
“It is built up by fellow managers, journos who follow on with it and you are never going to get rid of it.
“The type of football I played at Everton, the fans said it wasn’t good enough and I would say the same – I knew it wasn’t good enough for Everton.
“But I knew I had to get them in the position where they were safe.
“Then let me build the team, let me spend the next £80 million, £100m on the players that will make Everton much much more fluid, much more creative and go forward and score more goals and hopefully finish better than eighth.
“They talk about my style of football, well Ronald went and they said he played the right style of football.
“Roberto [Martinez] went, everybody said he played the right style of football, and I went because I didn’t play the right style of football.
“It is about trying to entertain and win, that is the ultimate, but you have to keep winning first to change the things that need to change.
“If I got sacked because my results weren’t good enough at Everton, I accept it but getting sacked when they finish eighth, it is ridiculous. In fact it is ludicrous.”