Source: Eurosport
Moyes plots big-four raid
David Moyes will lead Everton out at Wembley with a warning to the big four of English football: `We want your money'.
The Everton boss is aiming not only to claim Everton's first trophy since they won the FA Cup back in 1995, but he wants to break the gravy-train monopoly of European cash that floods into the top four clubs' coffers every season. To do that he accepts Everton must break into that elite group.
Moyes is acutely aware of the view of Sports Minister Andy Burnham - an Everton fan - who is campaigning for a better distribution of money in the game, but he knows the best way to redistribute the cash would be for Everton to break into the top four.
Moyes said: "I hear what is being said, I like the idea. But maybe in the modern game it is a bit unrealistic, but it is correct.
"If we could break the monopoly the money would start to dry up for at least one of those clubs, so if someone could break into the top four it would in time stop the likes of Arsenal or Chelsea or Liverpool or Manchester United spending so much.
"It would affect their revenue, because every year they get money for Champions League qualification which helps them keep buying players. The money from Europe makes them much harder to catch. I felt that had we made the group stages a couple of years back, it would have changed our world. The money would have started coming Everton's way rather than someone elses."
