David Moyes is confident there is no pressure to cash in on Jack Rodwell and is wary about Everton becoming known as a selling club.
Everton boss brushes off speculation regarding Rodwell's future
David Moyes is confident there is no pressure to cash in on Jack Rodwell and is wary about Everton becoming known as a selling club.
Rodwell has been linked with a £20million move to Chelsea in January, although Moyes has insisted there have been no offers for the England international.
Everton's financial situation, with chairman Bill Kenwright still looking for a buyer, has led to suggestions Rodwell will have to be sold to help balance the Goodison Park books.
However, following the summer sales of Mikel Arteta, Jermaine Beckford and Yakubu, Moyes has confirmed there is no pressing need for more players to be offloaded.
"I still make the football decisions," said Moyes. "Obviously there's a little bit more business involved in it now, where there's other financial things that we always need to keep our eye on, so not all of the decisions can be solely down to just what's happening on the field.
"I don't think we would do it because of the circumstances as I think we got the money we needed back in the summer, and I don't think we would be selling because we need the money for the bank or anything like that just now."
Successful
The long-serving Scot added: "We don't want to be seen as a club which is preparing players for other clubs. I don't, certainly.
"David Moyes wants to be making sure that we have a team that is competing but obviously the players want to be successful, they want to be winning things and playing in teams that are winning games, and that's always something I need to consider as well.
"We have tried not to be that [a selling club] but times have changed, finances have changed, Everton's stature has grown and we now have players that are good enough for the top teams.
"Maybe in the past there weren't players at Everton who were good enough for the top teams but I think Everton have that now.
"My job has been not to sell the best players. When I came in I said that we might not have much to spend but we don't want to get rid of our better players because I don't think that's right.
"There was a bit of speculation about Jack in the summer as well. Nothing came of it and I'm just looking at this one as a similar sort of speculation. Hopefully, nothing will come of this either.
"His development here has been good, he came on the scene very early but overall I will always think that players are better served being at Everton."
