Everton captain Seamus Coleman says the fans carried the club to Premier League safety this past season.

The Blues secured their Premier League status with a game to spare.

Coleman said, “Our supporters really bought into that, the scenes we were going into at Goodison Park, the scenes leaving the training ground," Coleman said on the backing his side received in the final weeks of the season.

“They played a massive part in maybe letting some people who were at the club and play for the club actually understand how big the football club is and how much it means to the people of that city.

“I think that maybe hit home for some of the players. You can do all the talks you want, but when you see that emotion in the faces of grown men, grown women and children when you leave the training ground singing Everton songs with such passion, if that doesn't touch something with a group of players, I don't know what will.

“Listen it was a stressful season, it's part of the job. It's not exactly what we wanted at the start of the season, but we found a way and we've just got to make sure as a club, as a whole, every single one of us involved in Everton Football Club learns from this."