• Manager had meeting with club’s majority shareholder, Farhad Moshiri • ‘When you look at the overall position, we have achieved a lot’

Sam Allardyce has refused to reveal whether Farhad Moshiri guaranteed he would be Everton manager next season and admitted the club’s major shareholder has no plans to back him publicly.

Allardyce and Moshiri met in London on Thursday following a request by the manager for clarification over his long-term future. The pair discussed plans for pre-season plus the 2018-19 campaign and that, according to Allardyce, provided “some clarity moving forward”. But the 63-year-old declined to elaborate on whether Moshiri had given a 100% commitment that he will remain in charge beyond this summer.

“I’m not going to tell you one way or the other,” Allardyce said. “We discussed next season and if I wasn’t going to be here why would we be discussing next season at great length? I have found Farhad nothing but supportive from day one and still just as supportive yesterday.

“What they asked me to do, I’ve done. I can’t do any more than what I’ve achieved up to this point. Well, yes I could. We could have got better results and more points but I think under the circumstances, when you look at the overall position, I think we have achieved a lot.”

Allardyce, whose side visit Huddersfield on Saturday sitting in eighth place in the Premier League table, agreed last week that a public show of support from Moshiri, or a member of the Goodison hierarchy, would help ease the pressure on him. But he does not expect that.

“Clarity is the fact I’ve had a meeting with him and I’m telling you and the meeting has been about what’s happening next season,” he said.

“Farhad doesn’t feel the need to come out and say anything publicly, so I’m saying we had a meeting yesterday to discuss next season’s plans, pre-season, players and which direction we are going to go in.

“ I said I can’t tell Farhad what to do [last week]. It would help, I said. He doesn’t feel the need to do that. By the fact we’ve had the meeting, he’s in the position where he doesn’t feel he needs to do that. He may well feel that if he did that you would just say: ‘Oh, he’s had the dreaded vote of confidence.’”