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TOM CLEVERLEY has revealed that Roberto Martinez is backing him to bag as many as 10 goals from midfield in his debut season for the Blues.

The 25-year-old joined Everton on a free transfer earlier this summer and is determined to be a scoring success at Goodison Park.

Cleverley rejected the advances of Aston Villa and Arsenal to join the Blues on a five-year-deal and said his relationship with Martinez was key to the move.

The pair worked together at Wigan Athletic in the 2011-12 campaign and the England international believes the Catalan is the manager who will get the very best out of him.

Cleverley made his Everton bow at Swindon Town on Saturday as a deep-lying midfielder but Martinez plans on playing the former Manchester United man further up the pitch this season.

And with the manager’s backing, Cleverley is fully expecting to chip in with his fair share of goals.

“I think he knows that I am versatile,” Cleverley said.

“I’ve played centre-mid, I played out wide and I played in a diamond for Villa and I played central midfield at Swindon on Saturday and I enjoyed it but we’ve not talked too tactically yet.

“But I know he thinks I can score five to 10 goals a season and I need to show everyone that again.”

He added: “We had a year’s experience together at Wigan and I think it’s my trust in him to get the best out of me. That was one of the main reasons I came here.”

Cleverley made a name for himself as a goalscoring midfielder coming through the ranks at Old Trafford.

But after being used in deep position under David Moyes and then sidelined by Louis Van Gaal. the Bradford-born player went to Aston Villa on loan.

But it wasn’t until Tim Sherwood took charge in the second-half of last season that Cleverley began to show his true form - and also started finding the back of the net.

Match-winning goals against Everton and West Ham proved vital to Villa’s survival bid and Cleverley is ready to bring that renewed confidence to Goodison.

“That’s definitely the plan,” he said.

“I got my confidence back in front of goal towards the end of the season and hopefully I can get into those forward positions more and more and get back scoring five to 10 games a season.”

Cleverley was speaking at a Premier Skills Community Festival alongside Romelu Lukaku and Gareth Barry.

The Premier League have helped train over 6,000 coaches in 25 different countries and the Blues players were at the Jalan Besar Stadium in Singapore on Tuesday to watch the coaches put local schoolchildren through a session.