Daryl McMahon has vowed to stay loyal to Ebbsfleet after they rejected approaches from EFL clubs this week.

The 34-year-old is 12 months into a five-year contract at Stonebridge Road and his stock is rising every season.

McMahon led newly-promoted Fleet to the National League play-off semi-finals in 2017-18 and is now plotting another push for promotion.

He was "flattered" to learn of the EFL interest but has no desire to walk away from the club who signed him as a player in 2013.

McMahon said: "I’m happy in the sense that the work we’ve done has been recognised, which is always nice.

"As an individual I’m very ambitious and I want to manage in the Football League. I believe I can do that at Ebbsfleet.

"I’m excited by my job. I think we’ve started something really good here.

"I’m three years into it and I think I’ve had a good three years but it’s still baby steps; I’m just starting out in what will hopefully be a long career.

"I’m 34 years old, which is very young to have the experience I’ve got already and in terms of Ebbsfleet the club, I’ve been a player, captain, caretaker, academy manager and now manager.

"I’ve done every job at the club in five years and I know the club from top to bottom.

"I know it inside-out and I’ve been able, with the help of people like Peter Varney, to mould it into something we can be proud of and I am really enjoying this job."

Ebbsfleet reached the National League South play-off final in McMahon's first two seasons in charge, losing to Maidstone in 2016 but beating Chelmsford in 2017 to clinch promotion.

McMahon said: "The club have showed great faith in me from the start, giving me the job.

"The season we won promotion, we had a spell when we dropped down to 10th in the league. We lost to Gosport and Chelmsford and that weekend was my toughest period.

"I remember looking behind me and every manager out of a job was sitting behind me.

"I met the owner on the Friday and he said to me “you’re the man for the job, I believe you’ll go to the top, what backing do you need?” and I said “I don’t need anything, give me time and we’ll get it right” and we got up.

"He’s shown great faith in me and we’ve moved the club forward together.

"When I sit here now, three years into it, we’ve had 130 league games, 254 points and we’ve lost 20 games.

"It’s not a bad record to be fair and a lot of that is down to the stability at the club. The players know exactly where the club wants to go and the messages they hear are ringing through."

Loyalty, of course, is a two-way street.

McMahon said: "Everything about Ebbsfleet, I feel as though we’ve built in in these three years as to how we want to play, the players we’ve brought in, the style of play, the environment we’ve created and it’s taken hard work to do that and maintain that. I know how hard it is because we’re going through it and doing it.

"It’s something I’m proud of and that the players have bought into.

"I’m loyal to the owner and the board but I’m loyal to my staff and my players as well. We’ve all created this environment that I’m really passionate about.

"The supporters haver backed me in the five or six different roles I’ve had over the five years and that means a lot to me.

"Loyalty is a big thing for me as a person. I know I had seven or eight clubs (as a player) but I’ve had one girlfriend and one wife so I’m a loyal person.

"I’m ambitious as well. Me and Ebbsfleet, together, are ambitious and it works well."

McMahon finished with a message to those supporters.

"I’m staying," he said. "I’m building for the summer, getting ready for next season. I’ve got four years left on my contract and I’m loving it.

"Go and buy some season tickets and come and support us again next year."