DAVID Moyes has warned Liverpool to forget about trying to lure Leighton Baines to Anfield this summer.

The Everton manager responded to growing rumours that Kenny Dalglish will make a big-money move for the England left-back, who is currently enjoying his best season for the Toffees.

Moyes insisted he will have the final word on what players, if any, are allowed to leave Goodison this summer – and confirmed Baines is not for sale.

He said: “I can’t see it. It’s not for me that one, and I think they know that as well. Nobody will leave the club unless I say so, and give it the go ahead and that won’t change.

“We have signed him on a five year deal and I don’t want to sell him. Everton sell very expensively; that’s what we do. We don’t sell cheap because that is why he is on a five-year deal and the chairman looks after the players and gives them what he can. So he is not for sale.”

The Toffees side that takes the field at the DW stadium against Wigan today will feature two players with Wigan links in in-form duo Baines and Leon Osman.

England left-back Baines came through the ranks at Athletic before moving on to Goodison while dynamic midfielder Osman was born and has family in the area.

Moyes added: “Leighton has improved no end from when we took him. He was a good player at Wigan and that is what got us looking at him and signing him.

“It took him a while to settle but he has grown into it and got better. Now I think most people think if there was a World Cup this year, Leighton Baines would be a certainty.

“Ossie has played really well and nearly carried us, certainly in the creativity department.

“He has got a couple of important goals for us and probably relished that, with Mikel, Tim and Marouane Fellaini, out of the team and the loss of Steven Pienaar.

“A lot of the focus has gone on to Ossie and to be fair to him he has taken the mantle and done it really well.”