Everton coach Jimmy Lumsden says the Premier League is becoming more and more competitive.

Lumsden has every faith in the club's players, but knows next season will be more challenging than ever, faced with the relentless spending of the Premier League's top sides.

"It's unbelievable," he told the Liverpool Echo. "I heard a Manchester City fan on a phone in just after the season ended and he was saying they needed three new players.

"The thing is, they probably will improve again. We are away at a different level, so it makes it even sweeter when we beat sides like that. Maybe we're trying to maintain sixth or seventh place. You worry that if you don't spend you'll go backwards, but what do you do?

"If you haven't got it you can't spend it. I don't know the answer.

"You see Chelsea winning the Champions League then buying Eden Hazard and looking at Hulk - we've got to try and get points from them next season.

"So sure it would be nice if you were sitting there with £30m and deciding how to spend it. But we have got to get on with it.