Moyes hopes mega rich owners just a trend

David Moyes believes the trend of mega-rich Premier League owners will one day be viewed as nothing more than a passing phase.

As Moyes once again plots a summer bargain hunt with whatever funds chairman Bill Kenwright can afford to release, Portsmouth are getting ready to invest the cash provided by new owner Sulaiman Al-Fahim.

With Mark Hughes preparing to invest significant sums from Manchester City's Abu Dhabi-based backers, Roman Abramovich determined to make Everton's FA Cup conquerors Chelsea a major Premier League force once more and the US-based owners at Manchester United and Liverpool ready to spend, Moyes will have his work cut out merely treading water at Goodison Park.

But the Scot is happy to keep working with Kenwright, believing his enthusiastic boss is the right man to take Everton forward.

"There is a lot to be said for having a chairman who is a supporter," he said.

"You know what you are dealing with. Maybe in years to come, people will say there was a bit of fashion with all these foreign owners but now let's get back to basics and have people who love the club.

"If it is going to keep being money, money, money, something is going to go wrong in the future.

"That is why people should be hoping someone breaks into the top four because it would alter the whole dynamics."

If there is one request Moyes would make of Kenwright, it is a decision on his transfer budget in the next couple of weeks, rather than the last days of the summer, as proved to be the case last term.

"I would like to get some finance a little bit earlier," he said.

"If we are talking about the Premier League being popular around the world, Everton should be an attractive proposition."

Certainly attractive enough to rebuff the attempts of Celtic to prise Moyes away from Goodison Park.

Although life in Scotland does not have the glitz and glamour of the Premier League, the feeling in Glasgow is that after establishing the Merseysiders as a top-six outfit, Moyes could be tempted to give up the unequal struggle of battling against the big four and instead try to revive the fortunes of his old club.

Yet it seems Celtic are doomed to fail. In fact, Saturday's defeat to Chelsea has only made Moyes more determined.

"There may well have been an inquiry from Celtic but that doesn't interest me," said Moyes.

"I am not tempted to take any steps. I am the Everton manager and I am a really loyal person.

"I am also really ambitious. But this club can match my ambitions.

"There are not many bigger clubs in England. Just because they have owners with a lot of money does that mean they are bigger?

"Money might give me more scope but I am at a great football club."