Moyes on why Everton need to be challenging for Europe again

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00:00Paul, you're enjoying being back now, you've got three wins, does it make you feel younger?

00:12I've got to say, no, I enjoyed hearing the crowd. I thought the second half of the period

00:19where the crowd were brilliant, really were. I think that's the bit of what I'm hearing

00:24because I've been at other clubs recently and maybe not, the last few years have been

00:30difficult, but that was more like, I can remember today. I think that's the bit I'm enjoying

00:38actually. I'm finding it hard to celebrate at the moment because you don't know if you're

00:41going to get the goal chopped off, but I'm celebrating my own way. It was a great goal.

00:48For us to get 3-0 up at half-time, two home games in a row here, you probably wouldn't

00:54do that too often.

00:55Do you think the connection has made coming back in your own better way?

01:01Yeah.

01:02And was that something that you identified as important?

01:08Absolutely. I said last week, I thought the connection last week with the supporters,

01:13we were at Brighton and we had a really tough second half, but we done the job, hung in

01:17there and got away with three points. I thought the connection between the players and the

01:21supporters is hugely important, it really is. And I think today, Beto at reception was

01:29great, really was. And they've been great to me, but I believe they were always good

01:34to me, John said anyway, so I'm thankful for it. But I know we've got to keep ourselves

01:41steady. If you're giving me three wins out of four at the moment, you're saying, wow,

01:45where's that come from? So, it's been great.

01:52David, you've only got one fit striker at the moment in Beto, is that something you

01:56might need to address before the close of the window?

01:59Ideally, yes. It's a question which comes back, and I'm not here to say, if I said to

02:07you, OK, name who you think would be suitable, I would probably guarantee that we've already

02:14gone through it. There's either a reason we can't get them, too expensive, not for

02:18sale, it'll be something. And it's sometimes quite an easy question to put out, and everybody

02:23would say it, and I'd say, no, everybody needs it. But there's probably three or four teams

02:27in the Premier League really chasing centre-forwards, and trying to get one has not been easy.

02:33By the way, I'm trying everything we can to add to the squad before the deadline, because

02:38it's OK winning a few games just now, you only need to lose a couple and you can find

02:42yourself struggling to get back. So we'll try.

02:50How are you doing?

02:51Very good, David, well done. I'm interested in what you said to Paul about the crowd there.

02:56Obviously, when you first came to the club, you called it the people's club, and people

03:00might think that's a bit old-fashioned now. Do you still believe that as well, or has

03:05life kind of moved on?

03:08I think in this city, there's a huge rival in the city who are very, very good. So I

03:14think we need someone to fight and have a little bit, that we can say we're going to

03:20stand up for ourselves and we're going to try and be competitive and we'll try and challenge.

03:25We don't have all the same things that they've got, so we have to find our way of doing it.

03:30If there's one thing we do need, we need the supporters, we need the players to work together

03:35to give us the best chance of success.

03:38Maybe relief's the wrong word, but when you came back, you obviously didn't quite know

03:43how things would be. Now you've been here three or four games, are you quite gratified

03:48that actually, yes, there are things that you recognise from your first spell?

03:52Yes, there is. There's a lot of people here and it's helped me coming in. But I did say,

03:58and I mean it, it's not the same Everton I left. The Everton I left were competing every

04:03year for Europe, Champions League, maybe try to be around the European competitions.

04:09We didn't do it every year, but that was more where we were than where we are now. So that

04:14just from a footballing point of view, if I had a way, that would be probably where

04:20I hope I could take Everton back to that challenging at that level. But I can't do that and I can't

04:26do this. We're sticking plaster on at the moment and you people know more about the

04:32financial situation than I do and we're just not quite over it yet. But hopefully we do,

04:37we can see if we can build on it, but football changes very quickly. I could lose the next

04:42three or four and we could be saying different things, but at the moment it feels good. We've

04:47had three great wins. I'm delighted, really positive. I think the players are improving.

04:53I think they're doing a lot of good things, especially making more chances and more opportunities.

04:58We're scoring a few goals as well, which maybe wasn't there before.

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