We can’t put a mark on Eden
are special. They want win. “It is not important if last season Ronaldo won. Now if you ask him or Messi they are going to play another World Cup with the same hunger because they have hunger. “I have a great respect for these players because to stay at that level you have to work very hard, it is tough. “I like to call it a ‘sacred fire’ – when you have it inside you, the will to win every game and to score goals. Every one of us has this sacred fire and we have to find the way to improve it. Eden to has the right characteristics to try to fight with these giants and to improve his position in this table next year. He has the potential.”
With Moyes struggling for points, there was a sign yesterday of potential for conflict with his board. Cochairman David Sullivan said Moyes would be given money for players in January but he did not want to bring in any new faces who were in their 30s.
Moyes said: “If you can buy young players, that’s the right policy. But at Everton I brought in Sylvain Distin at 31, and he was brilliant for three or four years. “The manager should always have a say. There are very few people at any club who want to be the guy who says it is their decision, because signing players is the hardest thing. Very few people get it right. I think through a lot of my time I have got it right.” Moyes is set to keep Adrian in goal and confine Joe Hart to the bench. today.