Updated 1:32am 20 November 2012

Marouane Fellaini can lead Everton into Champions League, says David Moyes

Marouane Fellaini celebrates his goal
Marouane Fellaini celebrates his goal

DAVID MOYES believes Everton can match the  ambition of Marouane Fellaini after the  towering Belgian produced yet another  man-of-the-match display.

The 24-year-old scored his sixth goal of the  Premier League season to draw the Blues level  with Sunderland on Saturday before laying on  the assist for Nikica Jelavic’s winning strike.

Fellaini, who signed a new five-year contract  with Everton just under 12 months ago, has  been one of the most outstanding players so far  this season with his performances certain to  have been noticed by some of Europe’s biggest  clubs.

Chelsea and Real Madrid are thought to be  amongst his admirers but Moyes says he has no  problem with clubs coming to watch their  talisman.

The Everton boss says not only is there a  hefty price tag on the former Standard Liege  player’s head but that Fellaini wants nothing  more than to help take the Blues into the  Champions League.

“Everybody knows where he is and if they  want to come and watch him that’s up to them,”  said the Everton manager.

“It would be a big price on his head but we’ve  got no problem in people coming and watching  him.

“I’m not in the mood now to keep the fight  going all the time because we’ve had to do it  with a lot of players.

“But Felli knows what I think and I know  what he thinks and I think more than anything  he’d love to take Everton into the Champions  League and that’s what we’ll try and achieve.

“I think we’ve got to the stage at Everton  where I say ‘look, we’ve lost some really good  players but I don’t think it’s stopped us from  progressing the team’.

“In fact, people might say Everton have lost  good players but they’ve actually gone and  we’ve improved.

“We sold (Joleon) Lescott, we sold (Mikel)  Arteta and we’ve all felt really down when we’ve  lost those players but we’ve had to pick  ourselves up and go and find other ones.

“The club will always be bigger than any  player, any manager, and the players we’ve  brought in are showing that.”

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