Everton boss David Moyes has been speaking to the media before Saturday’s Premier League game against Fulham at Hill Dickinson Stadium (kick-off 15:00 GMT).
Here are the key lines from his news conference:
- Moyes confirmed Iliman Ndiaye is fit and has trained as normal after the winger was withdrawn in Monday’s 1-1 draw at Sunderland with cramp, having scored his fourth goal of the season earlier in the game.
- Addressing rumours linking Ndiaye with a move away, the Everton boss said it would be “wrong for teams not to talk about” forward because of the form he is in for the Toffees.
- Moyes said he was pleased with Jack Grealish’s displays since his loan move from Manchester City, despite the forward missing out on an England call-up for November’s World Cup qualifiers against Serbia and Albania, saying it is up to Thomas Tuchel to “decide what he wants”.
- However, the Everton manager said he would like Grealish “to add to his tally of assists and score a couple of goals more” to help the club.
- Moyes admitted that attacking output from strikers Beto and Thierno Barry “hasn’t been good enough” but added that the former’s goals in the second half of last season were one of the main reasons why the club are still in the Premier League.
- He added: “We are putting them under pressure to score goals as well. We need to give them that confidence and belief. But they have to give some back as well because they have to show us what they can do to earn the jersey.”
- Moyes also said Tyler Dibling needs to “up his levels in training” to step into the starting line-up and believes the £40m Everton paid Southampton for the 19-year-old winger in the summer “is not that big a fee in the Premier League”.
- Moyes hoped the club would be “busy” in the January transfer window and will “look around to see what is possible.”
- Finally, Moyes said Fulham boss Marco Silva, who had a one-and-half-year stint at Everton, has done “a brilliant job” for the Cottagers, who have build “a really good side over the past few seasons”.
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