Everton winger Theo Walcott wants to stay at Southampton permanently.

The Englishman is spending the season on loan with the seaside club.

His current Everton deal also concludes at the same time, which means he will be a free agent in the summer.

The 31-year-old hopes he can stay at Southampton for some time to come, before going into coaching.

"I want to help the academy graduates coming through now," Walcott told reporters.

"I'm sure they've got a lot of questions to ask – quite a few of them have already been asking me things. A lot of them have been saying, 'I watched you at Arsenal and now I'm playing with you!' so that's a nice touch.

"I feel like everyone's a really hard worker.

"With the way the manager wants to play, you need to work hard, and if you don't work hard you're not going to play. It's simple – there's no hiding place.

"He expects perfection in certain jobs – particularly without the ball, but that's something that I'm starting to learn pretty quickly now, and I'm looking forward to the next game."

He added: "The manager has pulled me to one side a few times and put me in a room to go through a lot of tactics, which is nice to see, just to get my coaching head on, because that's something in the future I might want to look at.

"It's very interesting. I'm really enjoying my short time working with the manager at the moment and hopefully it can be a long-term thing."