David Moyes believes he could have won the Premier League with Everton if he had been allowed to sign a striker like Romelu Lukaku.

Moyes’ Everton side were firmly entrenched as a top-eight team in the second half of his 11-year reign, but frustratingly fell short of establishing themselves as a Champions League club, prompting their former manager to claim the inability to land a world-class striker was the crucial thing missing.

Having left Goodison Park to become Manchester United manger in 2013, Moyes is confident he would have been far more successful than his successor Roberto Martínez at Everton if he had been given the chance to deploy a centre forward of Lukaku’s ability.