Everton boss Marco Silva has urged the board not to panic after a slow start to the season.

Everton head into Saturday's game at Burnley on the back of three straight defeats to heap the pressure back on Silva.

Asked if he felt he had the backing of director of football Marcel Brands as unrest grows, Silva said: “I understand what you are asking, and we have to be on the same page, we must be.

“If you ask me if I feel I am with Marcel, then 100 per cent. It doesn't make sense for me and for a football club to have a project and then change it because we didn't win the last three games. You can not do that, it is impossible."

He added: "We inside the club know what's happened last summer - we have to know because we are football people.

“I know what the club asked me as well. I know everything that has happened and for me it is so clear. Stability is so important. If you ask me then I don't feel anything has changed in the last week. Of course I am not happy, the players are not happy, everyone inside is not happy.

“But the club is clear. We showed last summer that we had a project and I'am the manager to handle and work with the players we have."