Moyes Issues Everton 'challenge' For European Spot

Everton's "challenge" for adjacent play successful nan Premier League should beryllium to effort to decorativeness successful a position to suffice for Europe, says head David Moyes.

The Scot, 61, near West Ham successful nan summertime and returned to return complaint of nan Toffees for a 2nd spell successful January.

Moyes besides led nan Hammers doubly and, successful his 2nd stint arsenic boss, they staved disconnected relegation successful 2019-20 to decorativeness 16th, earlier an awesome sixth-placed decorativeness successful nan pursuing campaign.

West Ham besides reached nan Europa League semi-finals, earlier notably winning nan Europa Conference League successful 2023 to extremity nan club's 43-year hold for a awesome trophy.

With only 3 location games near astatine Goodison Park earlier nan move to their caller stadium adjacent season, Moyes wants 15th-placed Everton to emergence up to emulate his achievements astatine London Stadium.

"It was astonishing for nan nine and it transformed West Ham," Moyes told BBC Radio 5 Live. "European tours for nan supporters, nan money that was getting brought successful from nan location games and we sewage to nan semi-final of nan Europa League.

"I don't really spot why we should not effort to do that present astatine Everton. That has to beryllium nan challenge."

However, a highly competitory apical half of nan array has 10th-placed Bournemouth still successful pinch a outcry of playing successful Europe adjacent season.

On Saturday, Everton sojourn third-placed Nottingham Forest, who narrowly avoided relegation past season, but person defied nan likelihood to put themselves successful a beardown position to compete successful nan Champions League adjacent term.

Moyes added: "We are seeing nan overseas squad now possibly having a spell specified arsenic Bournemouth and Fulham, while Brentford person tried to show complete nan years that they tin get adjacent to it.

"I don't spot why we shouldn't effort to get ourselves into that group. If we support playing nan measurement we person been doing, get results, past we will springiness ourselves each chance."

Everton consistently vanished successful nan apical half during Moyes' first spell successful charge, going connected to compete successful Europe.

The broadside mislaid their first lucifer upon his return against Aston Villa successful January, leaving nan broadside teetering conscionable 1 constituent supra nan driblet zone.

Moyes admitted returning to nan nine 12 years aft leaving for Manchester United was a "huge risk" and location were immoderate nights wherever he "found it really difficult".

But a singular turnaround saw Everton spell connected a tally of 9 unbeaten games and virtually assured of their safety, 15 points clear of threat pinch 7 matches remaining.

"When we came in, we were saying it would travel down to nan past 3 games and really we were going to do to get there," said Moyes.

"Every triumph makes you consciousness a small spot better. Before you cognize it, you are saying, 'this is going great'.

"The assurance of nan players picked up arsenic good and immoderate of them person done remarkably good and fixed america each chance of staying up."