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David Moyes ally: Seamus Coleman 'offered' new Everton role
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Seamus Coleman will complete a fairy tale return to Everton after his retirement to take a key coaching role.
That is according to former Everton senior scout andDavid Moyesally, Bryan King, speaking exclusively to Football Insider.
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The Toffees legend left Hill Dickinson Stadium at the end of his contract last month, and is keen to explore another opportunity before hanging up his boots.
Coleman was offered a job at Everton, but is keen to continue playing for the Republic of Ireland after marking 15 years since his debut.
The right-back arrived on Merseyside in 2009, signing from Sligo Rovers in a deal worth just £60,000.
He would go on to make 435 appearances for Everton and could have made far more, had it not been for several significant injuries in recent years.
Bryan King reveals Seamus Coleman's coaching future
Many Everton fans would have grown up on a full-back pairing of Leighton Baines and Coleman, who combined technical ability with superb physical assets.
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Baines made 420 appearances for the Toffees, retiring in 2020 and initially working as a youth coach in the academy.
He would eventually take over Everton's Under-18s, before a brief stint as caretaker manager before joining Moyes' backroom staff.
It is expected that a similar path will be taken by Coleman, and fans could soon see the right-back in the dugout with Moyes and Baines, in what would be a fitting image of Everton history.
"I know he's [Coleman] been offered a job on the coaching staff," King told Football Insider. "Whether he takes it or not, something else. Maybe he wants to continue playing.
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"Coleman would probably go and work with the younger players," he added. "He'd be involved with the academy or maybe even put in charge of the under-21s."
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Whenever Coleman does choose to call time on his playing days, he will always have a position available at Everton.
The Irishman will go down in Toffees legend, and there is a feeling that his career on Merseyside is not finished quite yet.
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"We've offered Seamus every job there is from groundsman to assistant," Moyes said in May. "You name it, he's had every opportunity. but the thing I admire about about Seamus is that he wants to keep playing and he wants to keep playing for his country.
"He's got a couple of friendly games coming up during the summer time which he wants to keep ready for and he's in good physical condition. It would be easy for him to settle down and say 'I'm not going to do it'.
"There will always be a desk for him [here] when his time comes. There will be no doubt about that."
