I took a big risk to come to Hull, I have to be honest. But I loved it there, I really did. Great club and great people.
— Marco Silva
I have an ambition to win and you always must use it to drive you.
I can't just look at my position as a job. It's my passion.
If I have an idea of football, and I am the manager, it doesn't make sense for the club to find players with a different profile.
Football is not just about physical, technical, tactical. It's mental, really.
I have one idea: if you play better then you have a better chance to win. So my teams are dominant and I want them to be like that.
It's impossible, when one team and one player is afraid of something that might happen in a match, they will not play well, they will not have 100 per cent confidence.
I have my philosophy in my mind: you need to adapt for each moment and each team.
What I want in my squad and my players is to fight for our goal.
Details make the difference in football today. It is part of our process.
It would be ideal to have someone scoring a goal in every game but that is not easy.
I don't know if desperate is the right word but I know the fans have a big, big desire to see Everton challenging for titles and to win something but we have to go day by day.
We always prepare for winning the match.
When I prepare for a game the names are not really important to me.
I believe in my job and I believe in my players.
You need to have your feet on the floor sometimes but you cannot take away the ambitions of the fans.
We'll work hard every day to prepare for the matches and to do our best in every game.
As a 26-year-old player I had tried to understand why I was doing certain things and why the coach was telling me to do certain things. I started to view myself as a coach would.
All of us, we know, not just in football but in life, that we cannot achieve important things without consistency.
To see professionals working hard every day, making a big commitment to the club with a desire to improve every day is something I want. That's the only way they can play with me.
I don't have doubts that Everton is a big club.
Being a manager is more than a job. It's my passion. From the moment I wake up in the morning it's my passion.
For me, it's ambition. You want more, always. When you achieve one step you need to get the second step.
We play sometimes against teams with more individual quality than us, better players, bigger budgets, whatever, but we try to play our football. We don't try to change too much in our philosophy, in our model.
When you are doing something that is your passion - you are professional but you enjoy it - playing with fear, training with fear is not something you can do. How can you come with fear and without confidence to your job?
Derbies are always special, special games and moments for the city and the people.
Every week we work really hard on that, in our defensive and offensive set pieces, and in our routines as well.
For me, motivation is like obligation.
We have to play with full ambition and prove we are able to challenge.
To be able to win one game at Old Trafford or at one of the other strong sides in the country you have to be strong as a squad. You have to have the personality and the character to not fear and to be yourselves.
To play with mobility is what matters.
Our fans can push our squad, even if they were not happy with the last match, and create a strong atmosphere.
It is easy to understand when Everton performed better it was when they had stability.
In football it is impossible to win every match but we must do everything to show in every game that we have ambition.
I know a manager doesn't ever have time to look long-term. You have to support everything with results.
You cannot be a winner without maturity and consistency.
With good relationships and a good environment, you can achieve things more easily.
It's important to know as much as I can about the players.
The results are one thing but it's important for me how we achieve the results.
In my career I have achieved important titles.
You could have one idea in your mind, and afterwards you could be working with a team with different players, and you may not be able to achieve what you want to, so you need to adapt.
Sometimes in a derby it is not always easy to see a very good game with big quality but the power of one derby means you can see good things happen after one result.
Often in football a game is really balanced and one small detail will make the difference between winning and losing. We try to find the detail that makes the difference for us.
Even the best team in the world can improve.
When you are professional and working in a club like Everton, the obligation is to be motivated, to be focused.
If you don't have the personality or character to compete and to challenge Manchester United at Old Trafford, or at home, you have less chance to win the match.
You cannot find one team in the Premier League who can win at a place like Old Trafford regularly. The word 'regularly' makes it sound easy to win.
The formation is not the most important thing.
Always, always, always when you prepare for a game, you prepare to win the match.
We want to play good football, so that our fans feel well when they come to see our team play.
