David Moyes cannot hide his frustration with the situation at Everton.

Moyes, who has been in charge for nearly eight years, has hinted for the first time he may not be able to satisfy his ambition for success at Goodison Park, says the Sunday Mirror.

Rumours of a split are growing and Moyes found it difficult to suppress his anxiety over the team's plight.

In a candid submission, he said: "I want to be involved with a football club that makes progress. I've got a lump at the back of my throat because I'm finding it hard to say we're making progress.

"The one thing I wanted to do here was make progress every year and I think we've done that in the League and qualifying for Europe and reaching the FA Cup Final.

"But it's not the case this season. That's come to an end. We're not doing so well in the League, so it's the word progress that worries me more than anything.

"I think the rumours will always come. It would be Everton first of all I'd have to thank for giving me the opportunity to do this.

"I am ambitious. I want to be in the FA Cup Final. I want to be challenging near the top of the League. I want to be going into derby games feeling there is an even chance and I want to go to Old Trafford thinking if we're on form we can beat them.

"That's what I want to do. And last year we went into big games thinking, 'We're more than a match for them'. At the moment we're not. It's not my style to come out and say anything different."