PRESSURE IS THE BEST THING EVER CLAIMS SILVA
MARCO SILVA says if he cannot handle the pressure of football he may as well go home.
The Everton boss was responding to the suggestion his club’s owners should do more to back him. Silva goes into tomorrow’s clash with Spurs knowing there is again intense focus on his position. But he said: “Football is game to game, it is the only job you are judged week to week. We can talk if that is fair or not, but it is what happens.
“I am preparing the next game as the most important. If you ask what project we have, myself, the players, the owner, the board all know what has happened. Can it
TOTTENHAM manager Mauricio Pochettino has promised Dele Alli will no longer be a devil in disguise as he looks to put an end to the midfielder’s poor form.
However, vitriolic comments from the Sky Sports team last weekend are unlikely to rile Alli. Everybody at Spurs, including Alli, is too busy laughing at them to get sufficiently angry.
Roy Keane accused the 23-year-old of losing his hunger, Gary Neville felt Alli “needed to hear” some home truths and Graeme Souness accused him of being “in his armchair”.
It is the reason why Pochettino (right) insists he himself will never go into punditry.
He said: “When you are not inside the place where you have all the information, and then you give your opinion, people in the club are laughing about your opinion. “It is easy to talk from outside but the reality of what is going on is more complicated. “We were talking today about the film A Few Good Men. The famous line is, ‘You want the truth, you can’t handle the truth!’. “If you go and talk about what is really happening in be clearer? This is not the moment for me to talk about it.
“If we are all as one we can have very good moments in the end. No doubt about that. But I am here to find solutions and the pressure for me is never, never a problem. It is a pleasure.
“It is something I really like to feel because if I don’t feel pressure it is better to be at home.” The silence from owner Farhad Moshiri has hardly helped Silva, despite problems in the summer securing players that were urgently needed.
Everton still lack a goal-scorer after selling Romelu Lukaku more than two years ago and are also painfully short in central defence. Silva (right) refuses to point the finger, instead insisting it is his job to get results.
Asked if the board should defend him more, he replied: “It is something you have to ask them, not me. Do I feel support of them then yes, since the day I joined the club. Maybe it is not public, but I cannot control that.”