DAVID MOYES will resist any attempt by Newcastle United to persuade him to become their new manager.

The Everton manager’s name was immediately thrust into the frame as a candidate to replace Kevin Keegan, who resigned his position at St James’s Park for the second time on Thursday.

Moyes’s current contract at Everton expires at the end of the season and has still not signed the new one he has been offered.

He has still not indicated when he will commit his future to the club but always maintained he wanted to complete his transfer window activity before addressing the issue.

Moyes endured a frustrating time trying to strengthen his squad in the summer but his deadline day capture of £15million record signing Marouane Fellaini has left him in more optimistic mood.

Everton have taken just three points from their opening three Premier League games, suffering two successive home defeats amid struggles to cope with a threadbare squad. But with new men Fellaini, Segundo Castillo, and goalkeeper Carlo Nash all set to be available for the squad that goes to Stoke City next Sunday, Moyes is confident of an upturn in fortunes.

He also hopes to have Louis Saha, James Vaughan, Tim Cahill, Tony Hibbert and Steven Pienaar back to full match fitness within a month.

In terms of the Newcastle job, the management set-up that Keegan lost patience with would be similarly unappealing to Moyes.

Any new manager coming in would have to work within a structure which has been heavily criticised by the League Managers’ Association, with owner Mike Ashley and London-based executive director of football Dennis Wise part of a complex hierarchy.

The LMA worked with Keegan to try to reach a solution to his impasse with the board but without success and LMA chief executive Richard Bevan said: “It looked a little bit like an orchestra with four conductors.

“They had everybody on the bus but they weren’t on the same seats. It was going to break down sooner or later. If you look at a football club where people are running it from different parts of the country, where you have got a manager who doesn’t know who has been signed, who’s leaving and who’s coming, it’s a recipe for disaster.”