Marco Silva is confident that Farhad Moshiri will bankroll the next stage of Everton's rebuild and not rely on generating funds from a mass clear out.

Everton have a huge squad that needs to trimmed this summer and as many as 20 players from across the club could all leave with high-profile names such as Theo Walcott and Cenk Tosun among those who would be sold at the right price.

There are others - such as Mohamed Besic, James McCarthy, Yannick Bolasie, Nikola Vlasic and Kevin Mirallas - who have long been resigned to having no future under Silva and they will command fees.

Marco Silva doesn't believe Everton have to rely on generating funds from a mass clear out

Silva is confident that owner Farhad Moshiri will bankroll the next stage of the club's rebuild

Moshiri, however, is ambitious and Everton's major shareholder is anxious to see his team challenging the top six and Silva expects the Iranian billionaire to make funds available for the new faces he and Marcel Brands, the Director of Football, are looking to recruit.

Silva revealed in January that Everton were going to need to sell to buy but when asked if it would be different in the summer, the Portuguese replied: 'I think so, yes. The ambition you have as a football club, you have the funds to do that because we want to be better next season.

'When you want to be better next season, we are able to do that. It's my ambition but more it is the ambition of the club, it is the ambition of the people that are behind me and support us at the football club.'

Everton have a huge squad that needs to trimmed during the summer transfer summer

Everton, who face Crystal Palace this afternoon, are aiming to finish the season on a high following last Sunday's 4-0 demolition of Manchester United. Silva is already planning for the new campaign but recognises it will not be easy to trim numbers down.

'It's really tough,' said Silva. 'Not just the next season, even the season before because we joined the club - me and the new structure - and of course we realise the number of players we have under current contract, the wages and everything we must do. It's up to us to keep doing the right things.

'I'm 100 per cent sure that what we did in the last (summer) market was really good for us. It was tough, in some moments not as fast as we wanted but it was really good. It is our goal and our aim to do the same in the next market because our goal is to improve our squad.'