Many Everton fans on Twitter have slammed Sam Allardyce for comments made in the aftermath of the club's 3-1 win against Crystal Palace on Saturday.

Having managed the two clubs previously, it made sense that the former England boss would be one of the pundits in the BT Sport studio at Goodison Park.

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The 65-year-old was then asked the positions he thinks the Merseyside outfit need to strengthen in this summer, to which he replied, as per The Liverpool Echo: "I think midfield he would want to strengthen, central defender as well. If he gets the right players that will only make them better and that sometimes only needs to be two or three quality players. Not six or seven."

The transfer advice from Big Sam certainly didn’t go down too well with some of the Goodison Park faithful on Twitter responding to a post about the quotes by The Liverpool Echo's Everton account for news, with them obviously still having bad memories of his time in charge at Goodison before Marco Silva came in.

Indeed, Allardyce may have led them to an eighth-placed finish in 2017/18 having taken over in December, but they also only won six and lost eight of the final 20 matches of the campaign, all while not playing what could be classed as an attractive style of football.

One even brought up one of the manager's signings who has flopped - Cenk Tosun who is currently on loan at Crystal Palace and scored 10 goals in 51 games for Everton - as a reason why he shouldn't be offering any advice at all.

Others chose to focus on the fact that a manager like Ancelotti, who has won top-flight titles in England, France, Germany and Italy, as well as three Champions League titles as a manager, would be interested in what Allardyce has to say.

Did he really play for us?! No Everton fan has managed to name all of these obscure Toffees players....

They've probably got a fair point in that respect, but as one points out he certainly isn't wrong in his comments that Everton need a new centre-back, while you could argue that a central midfielder should be on the list, too.

Additionally, he is probably right that Ancelotti needs to target two or three quality players rather than simply going mad in the summer. The 60-year-old will know this, though.

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