"I think as coach, I understand. All the coaches want to win every match, every coach is working to win every match.
"When you are at a club like Man United, you know what your goals are. Your goals are to win every match, to be champions, to win all the competitions that you are playing in during the season.
"Mourinho knows how he can manage the situation. For sure it is not the first time in his career he feels this situation. He can manage the situation like he wants. He's preparing for everything.
"I remember the impact in Portuguese football in those two seasons was something fantastic and unbelievable. Not just in Portugal. If you remember the impact he had at Chelsea in his first two seasons, yes?
Jose Mourinho and Marco Silva go head-to-head when Man Utd face Everton (Image: GETTY)
"After he had the same impact at Inter Milan and then Real Madrid. After that he came back to Chelsea and he repeated it at Chelsea. It was not just one time, it was not just at Porto.
"I saw the game against Coruna in the semi-finals of the Champions League at Porto's stadium. He had a fantastic impact in that moment on Portuguese football and then afterwards in Europe."
Everton go to Old Trafford having won just five league games away at the Big Six in the last decade.
Their last win was when they stunned United with a 1-0 win at Old Trafford in December 2013.
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If Everton have real ambitions of breaking into the top six on a regular basis then they have to perform better against United, Manchester City, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham.
Silva added: "To be able to win at Old Trafford or at one of the other strong sides in the country you have to be strong as a squad.
"You have to have the personality and the character to not fear and to be yourselves.
"First you have to respect our opponent because they are a strong side even if they are not in the best moment, they are a strong side with a lot of individual quality.
"They are spending big, big money on big players but we have to be ourselves.
"You have to play and not be scared. You have to respect them but play our game.
"We have to have quality with the ball as well as it is part of our model and it doesn't make sense if you go there and don't play our way."