Everton boss David Moyes rues not signing another striker last summer

David Moyes, the Everton manager. (Getty Images)

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Everton boss David Moyes has accepted that he made a mistake by only bringing in one striker in the summer and believes it explains his side’s disappointing season so far.

Jermaine Beckford joined the Merseyside club from Leeds in pre-season but the step up from League One to the Premier League is a vast one, and Moyes now realises that not signing another goalscorer to support him has cost his side dear.

Speaking to talkSPORT Moyes said:  “I knew we were short of a centre forward and maybe more than one.

“I got Jermaine Beckford, who had jumped two divisions, and I was saying let’s not put too much pressure on him, get him off the bench, play some games at the right moment and that’s the ideal way to introduce him.

“But we didn’t get the centre forward which we needed to go with the rest of the team. Our play was very good, we continued in the form we ended last season with our football, but we didn’t have the goalscorers to finish it off at the start of the year and that definitely had an effect on us.”