Moyes signs five-year deal at Goodison
Moyes has twice guided Everton to te Uefa Cup and once to the Champions League but would have been out of contract at the end of the season
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Tuesday, 14, Oct 2008 10:22
Everton manager David Moyes has put pen to paper on a new five-year contract at Everton.
Moyes has been negotiating the deal for several months and admitted the delay may have unsettled his players, as they endured a difficult start to the season being knocked out of the Carling Cup and the Uefa Cup.
"There have been many different things for different reasons," Moyes told the official Everton website.
"But we are here now. The big thing for me is that I am at Everton, as far as I am concerned, for another five years."
Moyes has been a big success since his appointment in March 2002, but his side currently lie 15th in the Premier League table with eight points after seven games.
The 45-year-old has now set his sights on improving the squad even further.
"The job is to make us better than we have been," he said.
"I am really excited and really pleased. I am pleased for everybody - I'm pleased for myself and my family who were desperate to get it signed and secured and it is always what I wanted to do.
"Since I took over six years ago, I think there has been an improvement and the job is that I want a similar improvement over the next five years or so.
"I want the ambition to be greater. I want the expectancy to be higher and I want Everton overall to be higher on the field and off the field, I am determined to try and take it forward."