DAVID Moyes has urged Everton fans to stick with their team – despite admitting he shares their sense of transfer window dread.

The Everton manager feels the sense of frustration at his limited spending power this month more keenly than most, but takes consolation from at least being able to retain shining stars like Seamus Coleman and Victor Anichebe.

The pair both signed new four-and-a-half year deals this week, and Moyes is clinging to the comfort that Everton still have an array of youthful talent, even if he feels like he is banging his head against a brick wall on the transfer front.

Nevertheless, the Scot hopes the fans can weather the storm.

“I’ve not really liked any of the last four or five windows, I’ve not really enjoyed them because they have been really difficult for us,” he says. “But it’s the same for 90 per cent of managers – whether it be the January transfer window or the summer window.

“A lot of the time in the summer we have been fighting off clubs who want to take our players – that’s what the summers have generally been about.

“We have never really done a great deal of business in January anyway, so maybe it’s not so important for us.

“I’d say to the fans that we’ve been here before.

“I’d ask them first and foremost to stay with the team.

“They’ve supported the club when it’s been in a poorer situation than this over the years.

“I don’t see this as being a really bad period. I see us having some really good, top players in the team and there have been times when there wasn’t a lot on the field. All our assets are on the field.

“If we could add to that we could be up there. If I had a top player we could be there, and I said it at the start of the season.”