The former Everton midfielder was also asked about David Moyes and Marco Silva.
Former Everton midfielder Leon Osman has told Talksport that Sam Allardyce paid the price for failing to excite Toffees fans in the second half of the campaign.
Allardyce was dismissed by Everton six months after his appointment on Wednesday, despite having led the Merseyside club from 13th to eighth and eliminated the threat of relegation.
But the former England manager’s style of play and perceived failure to embrace his role with the Toffees saw his relationship with the Goodison Park faithful deteriorate rapidly.
And while Osman accepted that Allardyce’s sacking was ‘harsh’ from the outside, he added: “He took Everton away from any concern – although I don’t that Everton would have been relegated – and got us in the top of half the table. But it just looked like we were a relegation team that was really peaking to be eighth.
“There were no shots on target. It was such a dull place to go, Goodison Park. There was no real action to go get excited about. Everton have been relatively safe since Christmas and yet the football hasn’t improved. I think Sam has ended up paying the price for that.”
Osman spent the bulk of his career managed by David Moyes at Everton, but is unsure whether the Scot would be a good fit for his old side now, having left West Ham United hours after the Toffees’ Allardyce announcement.
He said: “I would love to see him back, I’ve always been quite close with David Moyes but I think that after the way this appointment has gone it’s got to be a little bit more universal than David Moyes’ appointment might be.
“With Marco Silva (the current favourite), I think the think that attracts everyone to Marco Silva is that both at Hull and at Watford the style of football was really entertaining. They were on the front foot, they were scoring goals, they were entertaining games. And that’s certainly the thing that needs to be brought to Goodison Park at the moment.
“But the concern is that he’s had two very short term jobs in England, a short term job in (Greece). He’s not managed to stay at a team really for more than nine months – never mind over a season.
“So if things do get tough, is he the man to see you through a tough period? He doesn’t have the experience for that at the minute, having managed a few times already in the Premier League. So I do think it’s a concern.”
Sky Bet have already opened a market on Allardyce’s next club, placing Cardiff City as favourites ahead of Leicester City and Stoke City.
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