Everton boss Dave Moyes is happy to stay at Goodison Park long-term.

"If they want me to be here for five or six more years, that will be okay," he added. "What I need to see is that they have the same ambitions as me, and that we are going along together to try to get Everton back to the dizzy heights of a few years ago.

"I do not have any particular reason to believe that the club will feel any differently to me. I expect them to be behind the sort of plans I want to embark on.

"The thing is, we have to find out whether we have the finance in place to take us where we want to go. Over the years that has been steady, but we have not been spending wildly to give us an instant hit.

"I don't expect vast amounts but we have managed to regularly break our club transfer record, and we will need to continue to do that. The players we would require to come to Everton now are the sort that cost quite a bit of money.

"We have always made a good fist of what money we have had, but maybe there will not be £26million strikers."