DEFIANT David Moyes has dismissed suggestions he is becoming disillusioned by life at Everton and is ready to walk away from the club.

The Goodison outfit have endured a miserable week with defeat at Hull City on Wednesday coming just hours after it emerged their proposed ground move to Kirkby has been rejected by the government.

Everton entertain neighbours Liverpool in tomorrow’s 212th Merseyside derby having won only one of their last 10 games to slip within four points of the drop zone.

It left a deeply unhappy Moyes warning his team they could face a relegation fight if they do not arrest their slump in form.

But the Goodison manager has not intention of shirking his responsibility to coax his players back up the table, and when asked about the rumours of quitting Moyes said: "That’s complete nonsense.

"I’ve been here seven-and-a-half years and worked really hard to get here – and I’m working really hard to continue it, and try and improve the club. I’ll carry on trying to get through this as well.

"If the fans thought it wasn’t David Moyes they wanted, I would have to think but at the moment I need to keep working hard with the players. We’ve not done anything different with effectively the same bunch who finished fifth, we’re not trying anything weird and wonderful.

"That’s when it comes back to me taking the final responsibility but what I am saying to the players is stand up and be counted. We’ve done the same in the past and some need to do it again more than others this season. I’ve no doubt it will change."

Moyes added: "I’m the man responsible for signing all the players here, and they should be shaking my hand and thanking me for giving them the chance to play for Everton, because it’s such a great club and for some of them it might not get any better.

"There have been times when I’ve been scratching my head, thinking how can I change things. But football’s got a strange way of getting you results. I remember we got a late goal against Sunderland one year which turned our season around, and that’s how quickly things can change.

"Why should I stay? Because it’s the right thing to do."

Tim Cahill is one of several players to have performed below their best in recent weeks, the Australian not helped by being forced to perform out of position on the flanks because of Everton’s ongoing injury crisis.

Cahill delivered an improved performance while back in his preferred central midfield role at Hull on Wednesday, but Moyes believes there is much more to come from the 29-year-old.