• Struggling manager gets degree of boardroom backing• ‘We have to improve results,’ says Everton’s director of footballMarco Silva has conceded his future as Everton manager is “not in my hands”, while the club’s director of football, Marcel Brands, insisted unity and stability were needed at Goodison Park.
The Everton manager finally received a degree of boardroom backing on Friday when Brands gave an in-house interview claiming the hierarchy supported Silva’s efforts to improve a sorry campaign. Silva later maintained he had not been given an ultimatum by the majority shareholder, Farhad Moshiri but, with a visit to second-placed Leicester on Sunday followed by a midweek trip to
Liverpool, his position is precarious in the extreme.