David Moyes has underlined his commitment to bringing in British players as Everton maintain their challenge for a Champions League spot.

The Toffees started their last match against West Ham with an entire English defence and five English players in all, in sharp contrast to some Premier League teams who have only a handful of homegrown players in their squads.

Moyes, though, admits he will continue to actively recruit British players as the Merseyside club look to establish themselves as European challengers.

He told the LMA's website: "Definitely. I think that is important.

"When we took over at Everton it was to avoid being in the bottom six; now our buying is to be in the top six so our buying had changed a little bit.

"The players that we brought in to keep us out of the bottom six have gone on to prove that they can all be part of the top six.

"So we mustn't not look at that market and I am very keen to keep bringing in British boys.

"That's why we put a lot of effort into scouting in the UK to see if we can find the right players."