Moyes admits it was difficult attracting players to the club last summer.
He said, “I said in the summer, I was probably more surprised by the amount of players that didn’t want to come to Everton than the ones that we did get.
“It was unbelievable the amount of players I spoke to, who I tried to get here, and I couldn’t get them to come but that’s because of the problematic situation that had been around Everton.
“Also, if you want really good players, a lot of them want to be in Europe.
“That’s why, for us to build quick, and the quicker I get the team into Europe, and next year if we were fortunate enough to do it, I might be saying: ‘My goodness, I can’t believe I was saying that because of the workload and what might come with it.’
“But I think it we want to get the level of players that we’d like to get in the next window and the windows coming up, I think Europe is really important.”