So if it's a choice between Wayne Rooney, Frank Lampard and Vitor Pereira to be new Everton manager, who are you backing?
All of course come with risks, especially given the team's alarming slide down the Premier League table and desperate struggle to pick up points.
However, with the Blues understood to be considering Rooney for their managerial vacancy the scenario has echoes of how their greatest boss of all, Howard Kendall, returned to Goodison Park.