Under-fire Silva in for long haul at Goodison

MARCO SILVA says he is no magician as he pleaded for patience at Everton.

Silva’s position was put in the spotlight by majority shareholder Farhad Moshiri earlier this week.

Moshiri heaped pressure on the Everton boss – who spent £86m last summer – by claiming that their current mid-table spot was “not good enough”.

But Silva believes patience and stability are key to achieving the club’s lofty ambitions.

He said: “I did not come here to be a magician. That is not for me.

“I am a manager and when I came in we had many, many things to change for something in the future.

Quality

“And I’m sure step by step, with some stability and doing the right things, we will achieve that.

“One of the things our club needs, apart from quality, good players, good managers and ambition, is some stability.

“I’m not here to make statements about what the club did in the past with one or three managers.

“We, as a club, need that patience but we need stability here.

“You cannot change the mood so easy that if we achieve fantastic form you are the best team in the Premier League.

“And if you don’t have good form, as in the last four or five games, it looks like you are the worst team in the Premier League.”

Everton host Bournemouth tomorrow on the back of just one league win in eight games.

They are also on the exact same number of points – 27 – as they were at this stage last season under ex-boss Sam Allardyce. And Moshiri has shown he is not afraid to sack a manager, with

Roberto

Martinez,

Ronald

Koeman and

Allardyce all having faced the axe since he invested into the club in February

2016.

Silva insists that the pressure to succeed is something that fires him up rather than causes him to wilt.

He added: “Pressure is part of our job. Really, I love to work with pressure.

“If you want to keep quiet, then stay at home and don’t work in a club with this ambition.”