DAVID MOYES believes Marouane Fellaini and Seamus Coleman are showing the kind of form to end Everton’s 25-year hunt for individual player honours.

It’s been quarter-of-a-century since Gary Lineker became the last Everton player to claim the prestigious PFA Player of the Year award, 12 months after Peter Reid and Neville Southall took the PFA and Football Writers’ awards, while no Blues starlet has ever won the Young Player award. This season’s PFA award appears to be wide open.

But while the bookies have Gareth Bale, Dimitar Berbatov and Carlos Tevez installed as favourites, Moyes believes a couple of his own players should not be overlooked.

“If you were picking the team of the year, I would be thinking Marouane Fellaini will definitely be on the tip of a few tongues,” he declared.

“Then there’s Phil Jagielka and Leighton Baines. We have good players.

“If there was a young player of the year getting voted you would have to say that Seamus Coleman will have to be in the running for that, partly because of where he has come from and his climb.”

The PFA award, voted for by the players themselves, has been dominated by Manchester United in recent years, with Cristiano Ronaldo, Ryan Giggs and Wayne Rooney all claiming the prestigious prize in the last four years. But Moyes believes that the presence of players like Fellaini and Coleman at Everton is reason to be cheerful about the club’s long term outlook, despite the bleak financial figures published this week.

“There is a lot of really good things to talk about and I don’t want to get dragged into talking it down. I want to keep it up if I can,” he added.

“You can’t stand still, but that doesn’t mean you have to spend billions to make it happen. If that happens you’ll only have two or three clubs who can do that.

“If you look at what Everton have done over eight or nine years, I’ve tried to keep moving it slightly, nudging it up, nudging it up. And we’ve not spent big money.

“But we’re competing with a lot of clubs who have spent big money. We’re not far off.

“You’re watching us play Chelsea, you’re watching us play Arsenal, you’ve watched us play Liverpool this season. Look at the money over the years Liverpool have spent and we’ve just taken four points off them.

“Look at Everton against Chelsea and look at the money they’ve spent.

“Look at Everton against Man United at Goodison and look what they’ve spent.

“Look at the game against Arsenal, okay we lost. But if you said we were getting thrashed and we were way out of our depth you could talk about decline, you could talk about no progression.

“You can’t really do that. You can only really say that Everton might be doing as well as we thought, but I tell you what, they are as good as most of the teams.

“And that’s why we’re disappointed and maybe just one key member away.”