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( 15 October 2008 )

English Premiership Football News

Moyes signs new deal at Everton
Manager David Moyes has ended speculation about his future by signing a new five-year deal with Everton.

Moyes, 45, delayed the signing of the agreement and he admitted May have affected his players after they were toppled from the Carling Cup and Uefa Cup.

"There was a lot of different things for different reasons," said Moyes, the club's website the delay.

"But we are here now. The big thing for me is that I am at Everton, as far as I'm concerned for another five years."

Moyes, who was in charge at Goodison Park since March 2002, has an endurance difficult start to the season with Everton currently 15th in the Fa Barclaycard Premiership table with eight points after seven games.

And the manager, who was out of contract at the end of the season, added: "The work is to make us better than we were.

"I am very happy and really happy. I'm happy for everybody - I'm happy for me and my family who were desperate to get it signed and guaranteed and it is always what I wanted to do. "

The agreement, signed at Everton's Finch Farm training ground on Tuesday, was concluded in a context of uncertainty about the future of the club.

Toffees chairman Bill Kenwright said he is willing to sell the club to a new owner with the finances to enable Everton to hold the top end of the Premier League table.

And Keith Harris, president of investment bank Seymour Pierce, has revealed he is hoping to find a buyer for Everton.

But Kenwright said he was pleased that Moyes has signed his new contract.

"There have always been two people - David and myself - believe that the long-term future of manager would be guaranteed," he said.
"The signatures of these two people are now on a contract.

"I'm obviously very pleased that the contract that I have always believed to be the largest, is now finished."

Everton were knocked to the Carling Cup by Blackburn and lost to Standard Liege in the Uefa Cup in the space of eight days.

But since Moyes succeeded Walter Smith as manager of the club, he was twice appointed Director Association League Manager of the Year twice and Everton have qualified for the Uefa Cup and eleven for the Champions League.

"Since I took six years ago, I think there has been an improvement and employment is that I want an improvement over the next five years," said Moyes.
"I want the ambition to be bigger. I want the hope to be higher and I want Everton to be higher on the field and off the field, I am determined to try to take forward. "

by bbcnews.