The Portuguese coach has paid the price for the Toffees’ poor start to the season, which has seen them lose nine of their opening 15 Premier League games.
The final straw for the Everton board was Wednesday’s 5-2 defeat by local rivals Liverpool in the Merseyside derby, which has left the club in the relegation zone.
Duncan Ferguson will take temporary charge of the Toffees’ Premier League clash at home to Chelsea – with talkSPORT bringing you full LIVE commentary of the match on GameDay!
A statement read: “Everton Football Club can confirm that manager Marco Silva has left the club.
“Majority shareholder Farhad Moshiri, chairman Bill Kenwright and the board of directors would like to thank Marco for his service over the last 18 months and we wish him well for the future.
“The club aims to confirm a new permanent manager as swiftly as possible.”
Ferguson will be assisted by a coaching team of John Ebbrell, Francis Jeffers and Alan Kelly for the match against Chelsea, with the trio stepping up from Under-23 duty to help out the senior side.
Ebbrell and Jeffers are, like Ferguson, former Everton players, with a combined 620 first-team appearances for the Toffees. Kelly, a goalkeeping coach, played for Preston, Sheffield United, Blackburn and Ireland during a 16-year-old professional career.
Everton’s majority shareholder Farhad Moshiri had long admired Silva before finally getting his man in the summer of 2018 following a protracted pursuit.
Silva had first been targeted by the Merseyside club in November 2017 when in charge of Watford, who sacked him the following January, blaming Everton’s approach as their catalyst for the decision.
Everton duly handed him a three-year contract in May 2018, with Sam Allardyce making way, and paid Watford £4million in compensation after the Hornets accused their league rivals of an illegal approach.
Silva guided Everton to an eighth-placed finish last season, but this term results and performances have been woeful, despite spending in excess of £200m during his time at Goodison.
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