By Phil Haigh
31 Mar 2011 08:11:00
David Moyes – Everton (PA)
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Everton boss David Moyes has stated that he will only leave his role as manager when the fans have had enough of him and revealed his disappointment with the team’s failure to live up to his expectations this season.
Goal.com UK revealed last Saturday that Tottenham were eyeing up the Scot as a potential replacement should Harry Redknapp take the England job when Fabio Capello leaves the post next year.
However, Moyes has refuted any such rumours by suggesting his fate is in the hands of the Goodison Park faithful and saying he will continue to work hard for the club until the day comes that they are fed up with him.
He told talkSPORT: “I’ve always said I wouldn’t want the supporters to get fed up of me, because at the end of the day it’s their football club not mine.
“I’m there to do the job and I try and do it to the best of my ability. If I got the feeling they were fed up with me, then I’d do something about it. But I don’t at the moment.
“I still see Everton as one of the biggest clubs in England and I’m really thrilled to be manager of this club.”
The former Preston manager is the Premier League’s third longest-serving boss and is well aware that he is in a privileged position.
He continued: “It’s not fashionable now to be in a job for nine years. It’s more fashionable for supporters to see a change, so I’m very fortunate.”
A recent improvement in performances has seen them return to the top half of the division, but it was a stunning run of results at the end of last season that had really sparked hope at the club.
Moyes went on:“I went into the season with more confidence in the team.
“Last season we finished having lost two out of 24 games. If you just counted those 24 games, I think we may have been Premier League champions. If not, we would have been second.
“So I went into this season saying we only need to go close to that to have a really good chance of being near the top. I think my disappointment comes from that.
“I’m fed up of saying to the supporters every year: ‘Let’s just avoid relegation’.
“I wanted to see if I could change the way we started the season by talking more positively about it, by building it up a bit more and saying to the players ‘this is what is expected of you now’.
“As it is, it fell flat on its face and I’m really disappointed I haven’t been able to get to the level that I hoped to achieve.”
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