Steve Evans will seek talks with Gillingham chairman Paul Scally after being linked to the vacant manager’s job at Stevenage.

The League 2 club are, according to reports, keen to speak to Evans about the vacancy at the club following the recent departure of their manager Alex Revell.

Gills boss Evans, who is in the third of a three-year deal at Priestfield, became the immediate favourite for the Stevenage job with the bookies on Tuesday.

Evans said he only found out about the reports after his side’s FA Cup defeat at Cheltenham on Tuesday night and had this to say: “I have just been made aware of it by our media department and that is something that the chairman and the club have to speak about, not for me, I will speak to the chairman about it as you would expect.

“I don’t know how accurate that is. I am a football manager, I want to win games, I want to have a chance. I don’t know if there has been an approach.

“I know Stevenage as a club, I know the personnel, but that is for Paul Scally (the Gills chairman) and Gillingham Football Club to speak of and obviously they need to give clarity on it because I am not sure that is right or wrong.”

Stevenage are 21st in League 2 but Evans is having it tough at the Gills, naming youth players in their FA Cup game at Cheltenham and having more senior men out injured than are fit.

Gillingham have a crunch game coming up this Saturday at bottom club Crewe.

Stevenage chairman Phil Wallace said: “The next step is crucial for us and we need experience in the management team we employ next.”

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