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| | | | Moyes sets his sights high | | Published on Friday 09 May 2008 - 03:59:02 |         |  David Moyes has once again asserted that he has told Bill Kenwright the players he wants to buy this summer, but is still waiting to hear if he will be allowed to go after them.
Moyes also goes a long way to explain his thinking in an interview with The Independent newspaper.
"I've told the chairman who I'd like to buy and, hopefully, I'll find out pretty soon whether I can pursue them," he said. "I'd like A, B and C, but it's a question of who we can afford, and also who we can hope to turn into better players.
"That's our basic philosophy, and it would apply even if we were given vast sums of cash, but, in the same breath, I would like to put the emperor's clothes on now and again. I have a really good relationship with Bill, but nobody pushes him more than me to kick on. We have to keep improving the squad.
"The last thing we can do is take our foot off the pedal, because others – Tottenham, Newcastle, Aston Villa, Portsmouth, Manchester City, Blackburn – will overtake us.
"I was surprised the way things were here when I arrived. I knew Wayne [Rooney] was about to come through, but there was very little value on the pitch, and the team was near the bottom of the league. I've turned that on its head.
"We do have value on the pitch now, and the team is near the top. But it means we're fishing in a different pond. There aren't many £1.5m players, like Tim Cahill, who would improve Everton now. Now those players are £10m-plus.
"Things have changed. I had a five-year plan, which I've torn up, and last September I wrote down the strategy for the next five years, which means European football most seasons and, hopefully, the Champions League. If we're going to move to a new stadium, we want it filled." ...discuss this in our forum...
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