Tom Davies is listening intently as two scenarios are put to him. Number one: your team is 1-0 down in the dying minutes of a cup final and has just had a player sent off. What are you thinking? Number two: you have just been informed that you are being made redundant. Again, what are you thinking?

“Stay positive,” the midfielder says to both situations as he takes part in the Everton in the Community Imagine Your Goals programme. His group, including Leighton Baines and Cenk Tosun, is highlighting the importance of well-being and mental health and alongside them are some of those who have benefitted from the charity’s work.

“They are there because of football,” Davies later says. “So the message was, ‘you can do this in a football match so you can do this in your life’. The sense of turning it into a positive and thinking of bad things in a different light. I know I would try to do that. Be positive and keep thinking you are going to win.”

And, as a young footballer, keep thinking you are going to make it. “Coming through the academy has been good, but it’s also been tough, there have been many hurdles,” Davies admits, having joined Everton from Tranmere Rovers when he was just 10. “When Everton came asking for me I couldn’t say no, could I?” he says, grinning.