Source: Liverpool_Echo
David Moyes says Everton are in need of a lift after defeat at Burnley
DAVID MOYES has admitted Everton's squad is in need of a lift after watching them slip to what he felt was an undeserved defeat at Burnley.
With the transfer window closing next Tuesday at 5pm, Moyes knows he must move swiftly to bring in the four new faces he said he wanted after the Blues had beaten SK Sigma Olomouc last Thursday.
Ever Banega and Lokomotiv Moscow's captain Diniyar Bilyaletdinov are two players who Moyes hopes will provide a boost but he also needs a couple of central defenders to come to fill the void left by Joleon Lescott's departure to Manchester City.
The Blues looked short on occasions at the back at Turf Moor yesterday as they were beaten 1-0 but Moyes just wishes he had more time to weigh things up after the deal with Manchester City for Lescott was agreed over the weekend.
'We definitely need freshening up and we will try and make a go of it this week,' said Moyes, who has his eye on a number of defensive transfer targets.
'I won't be relieved when the transfer window is shut. I'll wish it will have been open longer, because it will give me more of a chance to spend the money. The time is the thing that is against us now.
'If the money had been offered back in June then it would have made it a lot easier for us.
'If Real Madrid paid the right money for Ronaldo to Manchester United a week after the end of the last season, then we shouldn't have had to wait this long for someone to pay the price we believe is right for our player.'
The Lescott saga has cast a huge shadow over the start of the season and the situation has not been helped by Everton following up the opening day debacle against Arsenal with another setback in Lancashire.
