 Welcome to ToffeeTV it is the Everton News Daily. Everton are reportedly close to appointing Rafa Benitez tonight. According to a lot of sources and quite a few sources actually it started when Jim White mentioned it, talk sport, it's gone on to sky sports, the telegraph. A lot of people are saying he's very close to being appointed. It is believed that he's been interviewed for the job but of course in the last few days this has happened to a couple of managers. We've been certainly very very close to a couple of managers so at the moment obviously it's not concrete. Who knows if Everton have got other managers to interview but this let's be honest this is sending Everton fans into absolute meltdown the idea of bringing in a ex Liverpool manager one who also bad marred Everton as a club all those years ago. The appointment itself would not seem to be for me certainly a terrible appointment. Someone who's out of work, someone who's managed some of the biggest clubs in the world, someone who's won a Champions League. Almost like somebody could continue the way Carlo Ancelotti was doing but it's whether you enjoyed the way Carlo Ancelotti was doing. So we'll wait and see next 24 hours are going to be very very pivotal in this but it will be it will be a bitter pill to swallow for Everton fans. Of course Rafa Benitez has been in a similar position before going into Chelsea when obviously Chelsea fans were in a very similar position to what Everton fans are right now. He went there he won the Europa League with Chelsea so obviously he's got a very very good track record obviously last seen in this country managing Newcastle did a decent job there but you know it's not basically not particularly in the best part of his managerial career so very similar to Carlo Ancelotti. So if it was to happen well yeah the fallout would be would be incredible let's be honest but let's see what happens because this is just dragging on and dragging on at the moment with Everton so we'll see in the next 24 hours what happens and whether this is a whether this is a genuine thing and whether where we go as Evertonians if Rafa Benitez is appointed as Everton manager don't forget to stay tuned to Toffee TV and all our social accounts for all the latest news obviously the fixtures come out today normally a very exciting day when you get ready with the you know for the next season but obviously with the Euros happening and with Everton not having a manager I think it's been toned down massively but Everton will start the season at home to Southampton which is a decent first game this season finish the season away to Arsenal at the Emirates Derby dates are November the 30th which is a midweek game at Gulleson Park and April the 23rd and I'm feeling of course all of those dates are subject to change for television. Boxing Day which is normally a big game for fans we are playing barely away as well so that's normally a big one and then we've got a couple of home games after that for the Christmas fixtures so yeah I've not really had a look at them and I'm at this stage not really too excited about them with us having no manager and waiting to see again waiting to see if that changes and in other news Stephen Naismith has retired from football today he has taken a coaching role at heart obviously played for Rangers played for Everton played for Norwich yeah so we wish him all of the best there you go make sure to stay tuned to Toffee TV to find out all the latest on the managerial situation we've been doing daily live videos with all the latest and that will continue tomorrow no matter what happens so stay tuned for that thank you for watching give this video like subscribe if you haven't and if you want more great videos join us over on Patreon the link is in the description and it's on the screen see you later