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Moyes talks down Rodwell move

Pressed on the latest media froth over Chelsea and/or Man Utd supposedly preparing £20M bids for Jack Rodwell, David Moyes said: ?All I can say is we've had zero contact. We don't want to be seen as a club which is preparing players for other clubs; I don't certainly."

He continued, ?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.

?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 one 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.?

?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,? he said. ?I don't think we would be selling because we need the money for the bank or anything like that just now.

?I still make the football decisions. 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 football field.

?We have tried not to be that (a selling club) but times have changed, finances have changed and the position where Everton have moved to our stature has grown and we 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.?

The Scot was adamant that Everton have only sold top players during his reign when those individuals have asked for a transfer.

He said: ?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.

?We've never had to do that yet — only Mikel and to be fair, Mikel wanted to go in the summer — Wayne wanted to go and Joleon wanted to leave.

?They were the ones who would come into that category.

?Obviously we didn't want them to go and not everyone who comes to us and says they want to leave we are going to let go.

?With the Mikel one there came a time when we had to give him a chance to go and make his move.

?Wayne obviously we knew that one and we learned a little bit of a lesson from the Joleon one.?

Quotes or other material sourced from Liverpool Echo

• Rodwell out until the New Year
• Villas-Boas rejects Rodwell links

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