On-loan Real Madrid midfielder Royston Drenthe says he's loving life at Everton.

During his recent lay-off rumours started appearing suggesting he had fallen out with manager David Moyes, but Drenthe dismissed that.

"It was really frustrating that I was injured for three weeks," he said. "I couldn't train because it would have made it worse, but to play again and be important for the team gives me a good feeling.

"Everyone knows my quality and I have to play to my qualities, I don't do things I can't do so I do the things I know I can do to be important for the team.

"The moment I came in the gaffer told me 'Try to do whatever you can and when you get the ball go direct and use your quality'.

"When I got the ball in the first 50 seconds (of coming on) I went directly and that gave a lot of spirit to the crowd.

"I have a responsibility because I know my quality and if I have to go home with the feeling I haven't done what I could do, it is always a bad feeling.

"I like to go home with a good feeling that I can look my team-mates in the eyes. But when you can't play a good game then you have to work hard for the team and that is important.

"You can never play every game on your best but you can always work hard."