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La Liga expert dismisses Everton’s hopes of appointing Diego Simeone

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A Spanish football expert insists Everton can forget about luring Atletico Madrid manager Diego Simeone to Goodison Park.

Sky Sports claimed that Simeone is majority shareholder Farhad Moshiri’s top target to take over from Ronald Koeman, but ESPN journalist Dermot Corrigan has dismissed the idea via his Twitter page.

This is not, repeat not, going to happen https://t.co/dN2jVku0mZ

— Dermot Corrigan (@dermotmcorrigan) November 7, 2017

Atletico are currently fourth in La Liga and the Argentinian is believed to be happy at the club having signed a new contract in September until 2020.