HI‘NO’SILVA

Marco starts his Goodison reign with an emphatic answer to the question on everyone’s lips: Will you soon leave for a bigger club? WHO HAD THE SILVA SERVICE

EVEN before the questioner could cough out more than three words, Marco Silva shook his head, and said “No!”

He knew it was coming of course, knew people would question his commitment to Everton. This is a manager who was barely 10 weeks into his Watford tenure when he was first linked with the Goodison job.

This is also a manager who has not lasted a year in his previous four postings. Such was the speed of those exits – from Sporting, Olympiakos, Hull and Watford – that he could be known as Quicksilva.

Yet the politely spoken, intensely focused Portuguese coach appears in no doubt that he has arrived at a club where he will stay for many years.

The question, for what it is worth, was would his head be turned if a bigger club came in for him. “The answer is no!” he said before it was completed. “I know what you want to ask.

“This club needs some stability and I want some stability. What is most important is the club but it is what I want as well.”

The reaction to Silva from Everton fans has been widely positive. They see him as an antidote to the footballing austerity of Sam Allardyce. Yet there are more questions. About his record in the Premier League for a start. With Hull, and then Watford, he won a grand total of 16 matches. Yet he argues that is far from the complete picture.

“My job is to prove every day what I can do and how I can develop the players. After that people can reach their own conclusions,” he said. “It is not easy for you, for sure, to talk about my record when I was only five months at Hull. I don’t want to talk about last season (he was sacked by Watford in January). But if you want to talk and analyse the numbers, it will be easy to analyse.”

The 40-year-old has promised fans he will not be looking elsewhere after 10 weeks, as was suggested by Watford. “I worked with very good professionals at Watford but this is a new page in my work,” he said.

“When Everton performed better it was when they had stability.

“The only thing that is important is to make the fans proud of our team

“We need to make a connection between them and the team.

“There is a fantastic atmosphere here. The fans are demanding but demanding fans reflect a big club. “We need to give them something. If we show we are giving them something every game they will be proud

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