Everton owner Farhad Moshiri is sleepwalking into another Rafa Benitez-esque howler amid reports linking the club with Steve Hitchen.
What's the story?
Following Hitchen's exit from his scouting and recruitment role at Spurs, The Guardian have claimed that the Toffees are interested in giving him a similar position at Goodison Park.
The report claims that the Premier League club are embarking on this new restructure along with Frank Lampard as their new manager, with Everton having been working "without a director of football, head of recruitment and manager of scouting after the respective departures of Marcel Brands, Grétar Steinsson and Dan Purdy were announced in early December."
Would be an expensive nightmare for Everton
While this previous summer might have seen Everton keep the purse-strings shut at Goodison Park, that has been the major exception to the rule since Moshiri's arrival at the club.
The Toffees have been very big spenders in the transfer market, but have had very little to show for it, and it's no surprise that journalist Alan Myers delivered this verdict on the club's recruitment strategy.
He said: "Wow. I heard in the radio earlier, only Man City, Man Utd, Barcelona, PSG and Inter Milan had a bigger net spend than Everton across Europe over previous 10 windows (before this summer).
"Even the richest owner of any football club must surely look at the return for that investment and ask the question, why has this happened? Can it be just a string of failed managerial appointments or is it far more than that?"
In Hitchen, Moshiri would be making another Benitez-esque mistake, with his track record at his most recent club very unconvincing, if not down-right woeful.
After being appointed as Spurs' chief scout back in February 2017, only Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg and Lucas Moura remain with the north London side's first-team under Antonio Conte as regular fixtures, while a far bigger number are either on the peripheries of the squad, or have already left.
In fact, the 2019 summer arrivals of Tanguy Ndombele and Giovani Lo Celso - both for a combined fee of around £115m - have actually both just left the Lilywhites in the January transfer window just gone by, a real indication of the kind of shocking misses that Hitchen has made at Spurs.
The last thing Everton need now is for another appointment from Moshiri that leads to yet more years of suffering in the transfer market.
Hitchen's record at Spurs in recent seasons has been underwhelming to say the least, and would just be an expensive nightmare at Goodison Park.