FRANK LAMPARD will make a running start as the new Everton boss with Dele Alli his first target.
Lampard came through a second round of interviews to beat Vitor Pereira and current caretaker manager Duncan Ferguson to succeed sacked Rafa Benitez.
Yet while the ink will only be dry on a deal soon, the former Chelsea and Derby County boss has already told the Goodison hierarchy that he wants Alli on loan.
Lampard, 43, has at least one more target in mind following his meetings with majority shareholder Farhad Moshiri and chairman Bill Kenwright in London on Friday.
He was given the green light to take over at Goodison after Toffees icon Wayne Rooney revealed that – as forecast by SunSport – he had been offered the job.
But Rooney chose to stick with Derby County – the first club that Stamford Bridge icon Lampard managed.
Pereira and Ferguson were also given a second bite of the cherry.
But Lampard’s ambitious plans for an immediate raid into the market before Monday night’s end of the January transfer window impressed his new club’s hierarchy.
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