HATCHET MAN: Grow up David Moyes - you're manager at little old Everton, be thankful they're not the new Leeds - Sport

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What is David Moyes up to?

After guiding to fifth place last season the manager has become involved in a disgraceful political game which has left the club teetering on the edge of disaster.

Moyes is out of contract next summer and, despite making all the right noises, somehow he has not found the time to sign the new deal which is on the table. Now he claims to be too busy.

He clearly expected to have been given a large transfer fund to help the club push on, but it has not been forthcoming and his reaction has been to try to paint himself as the victim.

In his soft Scots burr, he has been whingeing about the need for seven more players, running to Everton fans to celebrate their win at, of all teams, West Brom, and generally throwing his toys out of the pram.

Then Moyes outrageously pretends it is him 'letting the players down' in an attempt to win the PR battle.

Did he not read the brochure when he joined the club six years ago? It is a long time since the club were at the top of the tree in English football and now they simply don't have the money to compete.

Fifth is about as good as it gets unless Bill Kenwright can find the new investors he is looking for and, with a new ground on the horizon, the chances of money flooding into the transfer fund will only get slimmer. Look at Arsenal.

Yellow peril: Everton's Leon Osman (left) battles with West Brom striker Roman Bednar at the Hawthorns on Saturday

Potential signings can smell the stagnation, that is why they are not joining. Tiago chose to sit in the Juventus reserves rather than move to Goodison Park.

But what is the alternative - turn Everton into the next Leeds United-style disaster?

The club may not have none done themselves many favours, losing their chief executive and and banking the £10.5million they got for Andy Johnson, but Moyes should grow up.

If the club are not ambitious enough for him, move on. Don't try to secure an escape route by claiming you have been cornered.