Marco’s got a handle on it
MARCO SILVA says that if he cannot handle the pressure of football, he might as well go home.
The Everton manager was responding to the suggestion that his club’s owners should do more to support him.
Silva (right) goes into tomorrow’s clash with Spurs knowing there is once again intense focus on his position but he said: “Football is game to game, the only job in the world you are judged week to week. We can talk if that is fair or not but it happens.
“I am preparing the next game as the most important. If you ask what type of project we have, myself, the players, the owner, the board all know. 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 but the pressure for me is never a problem. It is a pleasure. It
ent areas. And for sure the devil is going to appear again. I don’t know when. But it will.” Pochettino has also talk privately to Danny Rose and the rest of his players about the potential of racism in Serbia before they jet off for their Champions League clash with Red Star Belgrade on Wednesday.
He is anxious to avoid the sort of pre-match anticipation of issues is something that 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 him but Silva refuses to point the finger, instead insisting it is his job to get results no matter what the frustrations.
He added: “If you ask me do I feel support, then yes, since the day I joined the club. Maybe it is not public but I cannot control that.
“My contact with the owner will be if not daily, then more than three times a week. There is not one week where we are not in contact. He is always a person I am talking to.
“He is always behind the team and the manager. That is the feedback I have from him.”
that surrounded England’s European Championships qualifier in Bulgaria last month.
Rose was subjected to racist abuse when he travelled to Serbia with the England Under21s in 2012 and Red Star fans were banned from the reverse fixture at White Hart Lane after they were charged with racist behaviour in July.
“Of course we are going to talk,” Pochettino said. “But the most important thing is not to give it publicity today. It encourages people to do something.”