Jordan Pickford insists Marco Silva still retains the backing of Everton’s players.
Silva’s tenure remains on the brink ahead of a triple-header of games against all bar one of the Premier League’s current top four sides in the space of a week.
The Blues’ trip to Leicester City on Sunday will be followed by a Merseyside derby meeting three days later before Chelsea travel to Goodison Park next weekend.
Pickford has worked under four different Everton manager in three years and is hoping that Silva can buck the trend by turning around the club’s fortunes.
He said: “You want stability throughout the club don’t you?
“I don’t want to see the manager sacked. I was here when Koeman lost his job and it wasn’t nice to see at all, it was horrible.
“We were in the building when it happened, and you never want to see anyone lose their job like that. The manager has been great with us and we are behind him 100 per cent.
“A few bad performances shouldn’t put the manager under pressure but that’s the industry we are in. [Unai] Emery has just lost his job after a bad run of form.
“The only way is to stick together and hope negative results will bring the best out of you.
“We might be in a sticky patch but I feel the squad is still together, the club is still together, and together we can get through it.
“There’s still a lot of fighting spirit within the dressing room, I feel we have been a bit unfortunate [with results].”
Silva’s cold detachment on the touchline has been a regular source of frustration for sections of Everton’s die-hard support, who believe he lacks passion.
But Pickford paints a very different picture of the former Watford and Hull City boss during training sessions at the club’s Finch Farm training ground.
“Every manager’s different. Everyone’s got their own drills and own ways of playing football really as a squad,” added the England goalkeeper.
“But Marco’s very detailed on what he does and we cover everything going into a game, how to play, how to defend, if we’re going to press, if we’re not going to press.
“There’s a lot of detail into the training sessions because you’d say every corner’s covered and we’re not going into the game without not knowing what we’re going to do.
“I think you can see he’s emotional and has got passion. He wants to win every game.
“As players we want to win every game and when you see the manager wanting to win every game and having that passion for us to win every game it spurs you on.
“It makes you believe more.”