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On a matchday Marco Silva is restricted to the confines of his technical area.

The Everton boss can only direct, cajole and, on occasion, shout at his players from the touchline.

Half-time offers Silva a valuable window to get his message across.

Yet during the week at Finch Farm, on the first-team training pitch which sits to the right of the training complex and accessible from the squad's new facilities, Silva takes the opportunity to plant himself right in the thick of the action.

Managing from the sidelines is unavoidable for 90 minutes during games but the Blues boss insists that chance to be in the middle of every training session, going toe-to-toe with his players, coaching them at close quarters, is one he must take.

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Silva is about as hands on a coach as you'll find.

The Everton manager was being asked about the different approaches to taking training and as soon as the idea of coaching from the sidelines was mentioned, he interjects.

“Forget this, that is not for me," he said.

For Silva, this is clearly very important.

“Because it is my way and it is my passion, I love my job and it is impossible for me to do it a different way," he added.

“I believe in all of my technical staff, they are able to do everything I am doing and do it as well but at the end I have to be there to show my players what they have to do and for them to feel that I am there as well."

Silva's presence has been felt from the first session he took on July 3.

Back in the early throes of pre-season, the manager was using double sessions to work on the players' fitness before a week in shadow of the Alps allowed him more time to work on tactics.

The initial focus, surprisingly for a manager with an attacking mindset, was on defence and shape.

An opening day draw, with 10 men, at Wolves was rooted in the work Silva did in Austria by which point his personality, and methods, were already clear to the players.

Approachable and warm, Silva is not seen as business-like or cold as Ronald Koeman was but he has commanded the respect of the squad.

Descriptions of him as 'intense' and 'demanding' are not wrong, he says.

“Could be, could be," Silva said.

“Maybe some of my players could find other words as well and the people who work with me as well.

“But it is impossible at this level not to be, and they already know, we are here to demand a lot from them because only this way can we reach the level we need to.

“And intense because everything in football today is fast, everything will be intense and there are other things we have to do as a team.

“On myself, I am really demanding as well and with my technical staff as well and with my players.”

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Everton have scored four times in the opening two games of the season and have a renewed threat in attack but Silva insists on working on shape, organisation and what comes off the ball.

Even in the week leading up to the Wolves game, the Blues had pressing and defensive drills on the agenda.

That will not change throughout the season - "it is something we will work on many, many, many times during the week" he promised earlier in the summer.

Another aspect of Silva's training ground rules are that every instruction from him or his staff and every call from his multi-national squad of players is in one language.

The only time the Everton manager will revert to Portuguese is when he holds detailed tactical planning meetings with his backroom team of Joao Pedro, Hugo Oliveira, Antonis Lemonakis and Pedro Conceicao

“I speak only in English," he said.

“Even if my English is not perfect.

“There are some specific meetings with some of my technical staff where I don't so I can explain to them what I am talking to them about but in general situations I speak only in English.”

And it appears that his message is getting across.