Everton manager Roberto Martinez has said there is no problem over striker Romelu Lukaku's future after comments from the player's new agent.
The Belgium international, who missed the Toffees' 1-0 win over Southampton courtesy, earned by a Phil Jagielka goal, has signed with Mino Raiola, who also represents Mario Balotelli and Paul Pogba.
On Friday, Raiola gave an interview to a Belgian newspaper in which he said: "If we had met each other earlier, he wouldn't have played for Everton.
"We will see what happens in the summer, but the Everton directors don't have to think Rom will play there for the rest of his career."
Martinez said: "He is an agent that has worked just a short period of time with a new client. For whatever reason, he needs to make those comments.
"I am sure every agent will have some sort of comments about his clients. I am not going to get involved talking about an agent.
"He has an incredible talent and at 21 he has a long-term contract. For me, there is not an issue."
Turning his thoughts to Everton's third successive victory, which lifted them to 11th in the table, Martinez said: "We stopped them from doing what they normally do. They found it hard to break us down.
"It was a really interesting game from a tactical point of view. They only had two shots on target, which shows you how well we defended, but Tim Howard was at his very best.
"As a team we defended very well, because from then on Southampton never had a shot on target."