 I know it was the end of the six match on beaten league run last weekend, but did the performance give you any more ideas of exactly where you are? We learnt some things I did. I think you can do in defeat sometimes. I said after the game I thought a performance in the first half wasn't how we'd want it. Sometimes good opponents can do that to you and sometimes you've got to take a bit of responsibility yourselves. But the spirit in the end was good. We pushed to try and win the game in the end and from the league, so it happened. So important thing now is a reaction and what we're doing now, upcoming games. We did see Dominic Calvert-Lew return, which is good news. Is he in your thoughts in terms of starting the game at Tottenham? Well yeah, it's great to have Dominic back. We're in a process with Dominic where he's not taking part in every part of training in terms of where we'd want to push him probably to get him completely matched fit, just in terms of the process of getting him fit and robust and staying fit. So we'll just have to see that over the next days and weeks how we get him to that optimum level and how quickly we can get him there. James Garner as well on your short while on the pitch, but you impressed with what you saw? Yeah, very impressed. I thought to go up against your old team, the team that you came through with adds a bit of pressure. I thought it was a good pressure for him because he came on and showed personality on the ball, passed it well, got a shot that was nearly going into the top corner. So I had no doubts of James. He's a player for the now and for the future, of course, and there's competition in midfield, but he gives us something different and he's more than ready to play for us. You've got to make at least one change, Anthony Gordon suspended. Is that a cause of frustration at such an early stage of the season? It just is what it is. Five bookings in nine games, it's a bit much. You told it. Yeah, we speak of that. Just in terms of injury updates, I know Adelaide D'Cordia wasn't in the matchday squad last weekend. Mason Holgate, Yeri Meena, are we any closer to seeing them return? Yeah, Dukes had a family issue. I bet he's back in the squad for tomorrow. And Mason's training, not ready to be in the squad yet, but training really well. And Yeri had a little bit of a setback this week, so he won't be available. The performance at Tottenham last season, I think it's probably fair to say the worst performance since you've been manager. How far have you come since then, Frank? I don't know. We've progressed. I remember the game well, and it's the one that sticks in the mind, and it's very easy to casually look at the result. I know the detail behind it and the team, the options that we had in the day. I'm not belittling the team. I'm just saying that we suffered from 20 minutes onwards in that game and Tottenham did a very strong performance as they do, counterattack, lots of goals that then gives them control of the game. So it's a long time ago. We've progressed. There's a lot of personnel changes. It's clear if you look at our start in 11 now compared to that or the selection options that I have. So it's in the back of our minds, but it's of no real relevance, is it, to what happened this weekend? Do you see this run of fixtures as quite defining in terms of where you are and can be, given it was manipulated last week at Tottenham and then Newcastle away on Wednesday? You can probably say that about every run. You get past that and you go, what about these ones? You should win these ones. What does that mean for you? They're not easy questions to answer other than the Premier League will always throw up difficulties. People probably make us underdogs at both these games or away against strong teams. I'll get that. Let's enjoy that. Let's sort of understand it and see what we can do. We've shown things already this season that we can maybe go against people's opinions of us. I've read a lot of opinions before the season. We were going down. I was number one to be leaving. All those things. It's nothing better than proving people wrong. So these two games are probably a situation like that, but they're not the end of the story for us. We've got ourselves in a position now where, if we take two hits or three hits, we have to come back stronger because we took a lot of hits last year when I came in here and before I was here. The problem at that time was that we were on the floor when I came in in terms of confidence. So now you look at Cengarca, can we be stronger than that mentally as a club? Everybody, can we react? So these games are good tests for us, but they're not this big. Players do seem to have more belief in their own ability and that of a whole squad now. I bet they've got a long way to go inside of Hyde because I've got high standards and my standards on Monday when I'm with my wife and children on a day off thinking about football and disappointment of losing a game. That has to be tempered because you've to come in and go, OK, what are the positives? Where are we at? We're progressing, but we mustn't ever think that we're near where we want to be because I know that. And again, it's not a criticism of any player, even myself, because we've got work to be done. So that works on going. A lot of the elements and the big elements of the team are fresh and new. Our back four, our midfield three players have not played together, a nine, whatever it is. So we can't expect, I don't think anyone is expecting immediate answers, but can we progress every day and get a bit better? That's in our hands. Frank, in terms of the squad, I know you've highlighted a couple of injuries you've still got that concern you, but is this the strongest squad you've had since you came here in terms of players available at a fit to play? Since I came here, yeah, possibly. As you said, we're missing players still. But yeah, it feels like we have really good, strong competition in lots of areas. That was partly due to our recruitment and some movement in the summer, working with players that are developing and getting better. And of course, there are areas that we can get better at, whether it's training and work every day or as we look into the future. But at the moment, we're in a decent place, yeah. Is that the first step then on the road to where you ultimately want to be having competition in all areas of the field so that you've got basically competition from within to be better? Yeah, that's what makes good teams, whether you're talking about great teams that have well class or can invest to a level where backup players are at a really, really high level. But throughout the Premier League, now the standard is such that most teams have real good competition in places. The Tottenham game last year was actually a good example where we were really trying to put players in positions to try and find a way. Now it feels more like we have options that can keep us strong and keep competition strong. So yeah, again, we're not there, but we are in a stronger position. What would your emotions be then going into this game when you meet a player that was so influential in getting this kind of out of trouble last season? Was Jarlison now obviously at Spurs? Nothing more than he's a good lad and wishing well and shake his hand and all those things. I think he left with dignity, he left with his head held higher, with his teammates, with myself, with the fans of the club, he gave everything for this club. So nothing more than that. And on Tottenham as well, they're unbeaten at home this season at the Premier League. What is it about an Antonio Conti managed side that makes them so tough, so well structured? It's just a great coach isn't he? I know that from his Chelsea days. I wasn't there obviously, but he came in and took on a squad that were in a difficult position and won the league. Nobody can understate that to go from, I think, 16th in the league or whatever it was a year before to champions was amazing. He's tended to do that and had great success in his career. They've got fantastic players, but with your coaching out on, he's got a very clear defined way of playing. I mean it's clearly well coached and well delivered and they give you a huge threat that you think we're all aware of. So yeah, I've got nothing but the highest things to say about him as a coach. Also they have these players especially, well not just at the top end of the pitch, they're the showstoppers that we see last night. But at the same time they're a very, very good unit, fair play to them. And just finally from me, I mean you played it in a lot of European football games during the course of your career. People would talk about them having a heavy fixture schedule, Everton having had a week to prepare for them. Does it benefit Everton or if you're playing and winning, does it help you when you're in that situation? I don't think so. I think playing regularly and playing in the Champions League breeds consistency, breeds confidence off the back of a win maybe last night. And then you can probably dip into your squad and bring the players in that we're on the bench to also have strong options. So it depends. I don't think you can call it before the game really. I wouldn't rely on it from our point of view and I don't think Antonio will really. He's got a strong squad that have picked up a couple of good results this week. So I'm sure they're in good nick. Frank, how do you get the balance when the performance particularly in the first half against Manchester United was way short of not just what you want, but what you've seen from the team this season? How do you get the balance when you get the players back in after that to telling them what they did wrong, that there was a lack of intensity, losing possession in key areas needlessly. You don't want to hammer them, but you want to put over your point and make sure that they accept that. I think you have to build up an element of trust between yourself and the players throughout having those conversations. They're slightly uncomfortable, but if you're just addressing something that's a bit of a negative which you have to do, isn't a problem. With the group we've got, I don't feel that we get kicked back. It's more like we want to get better. When you say we were well below par, I was the first to say we weren't good enough, but the two goals we conceded in that game were a mistake counter-attack moment goal. Without those mistakes in itself, we'd probably win the game even being a bit below par. So there's a balance to where we're at and we mustn't be too down from that defeat. But if there's moments that we can improve the structure of the team, I'm not talking about necessarily a mistake of a misplaced pass because I've made plenty of those and we all do, but the structure of the team will always try and improve it. So it's not a problem. There's no big deal just to show players that I'll talk about it because they're involved and they have to be part of that conversation. You paid a heavy price for losing possession against one of the best counter-attack teams in the country last weekend with Manchester United. It's the same again, isn't it, with Tottenham, because they counter-attack at such an incredible pace that it's something to be really wary of and you have to be. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. And we got a lesson on Sunday of that, as I said. So we're very clear going into the Manchester United game that these two games coming up particularly are two big counter-attacking teams. So the message will be the same and an understanding the players will know that. The rest is up to them on the pitch to deliver that. I mean, will you get the players to do something differently? Obviously you don't want them to give the ball away, but structurally will you tweak one of two level things in terms of cover? Yeah, possibly. It's moments of in possession, good possession. You want to have a structure that means that you're secure, the ball turns over, but sometimes I think the type of turnovers that we gave are very difficult to guard against. Otherwise you just play with ten men behind the ball even when you've got the ball. There are certain elements where you want to open up. But yeah, can we be a little bit tighter in those moments, for sure. But when you're talking about players of the class of Ronaldo and the idea and Anthony, sometimes those things can happen. So yeah, we can tighten up on that. And you were instrumental in getting the very best out of Charlotte last season. His goals and his performances kept helping him ever to know what's it going to be like to be on the other side of things. How do you manage to keep a player of those abilities and that sort of intensity quiet? And are you surprised that somehow the rest of the football world seems to be surprised at how well he's done it, Tom? No, I'm not surprised. And I don't know why the rest of the world should be surprised, because he came from Everton, I don't know how, maybe glamorous that might be for some people. It shouldn't be that case. Very, very talented players. Even when he was here, he was always Brazil's number nine off the side. And when you think about the competition for places he's got in that team. So I think he's well respected in the football world. So maybe there were certain other things that people were not so keen on. I always found him a pleasure to work with. I enjoyed working with him. In terms of we know him very well, but he's slightly stylish, slightly unpredictable. He's probably one of the big plusses of him, how he plays. He's continuous and a threat at all times. So now we're aware of the threat, but we'll have to try and nullify it. Thanks, Mike. We'll go to Alistair at the BBC. Can I just check on Yuri Miener's injury? You said you had a setback. Small calf injury. I've seen bits today of Nathan Paterson and Ben Godfrey training again. Can you give us an update on that? Yeah, they're both training with a view for... Paterson, we're hoping, will be fit in two to three weeks. And Ben's a bit behind. This is his first day out, really on the grass. So we're probably looking at the other side of the World Cup break. I was intrigued when you were talking before, you said there's nothing better than proving people wrong. And you sort of mentioned that maybe Everton were maybe looking for little people looking at being candidates for the drop, or maybe you've been fired as well. I just wondered how you sort of thought about your evolution as a coach, really. You've been at Darwin and been here as well. Do you think you might as a coach now, on how much you've learned in your time at Everton? I've learnt a lot. It's been a pleasure to be here, a challenge on many levels, in terms of the club, in terms of the situation I came into and the feeling, in terms of getting results and how we got them to stay in the league and then in terms of trying to build a team. That sounds really dramatic, but it's maybe not that dramatic, but when you bring in the amount of players we did and players left, you work in again. So there have been all really good challenges for me that I just feel I'm in the middle of, I've just started, or wherever. So yeah, I think with every year you try and improve. I think it's one of the biggest strengths of a coach to want to learn about themselves, about their team every day. And on that level, I feel like I'm improving. But we'll always look at results, I suppose, from the outside and that's something I can't always completely control, but can I work as well as I can with the players? I try to. It's for other people probably to comment on how well I'm doing or not. Do you feel like you've proved people on that? No. It's a constant, isn't it? I think our world that we live in is from the greatest coach in the world to not very good with one or two defeats or whatever these things. And from us as a club at Everton, where we are at the moment, we can have a good season with possibly losing more games than you win. That's an unfortunate reality, but I have to try and stay level and understand what feelings about me go on are not very important, particularly from the outside. It's actually what my players and staff feel about me in the building because I have to lead here and also what the Evertonians feel about me. That's all I care about at the moment. I'm not too bothered by what anyone else would say because that's going to float with the wind, that one. Some of them maybe do, I don't know whether he's proved people wrong or not, but obviously Alex O'Wobee's support has been great this season. He's got a great goal the other day. How would you say he's developing with you and what would you say his best position is? At the moment, I think I said it last week, he's one of the best midfield players in the league in my opinion in terms of being a 6-8. I played as a double 6 early in the season and was really, really good for us and then moved into a slightly more advanced 8. Again, his form has been great. His development has been brilliant. It's a funny one because I think there was a perception of Alex when I came in and it's all his work. All I've done is support him and try and maybe adapt the position slightly and then the rest is him. I felt and always saw that he'd be dangerous in the middle of the pitch. It probably helped that I was a midfield player and I understood it was some of the things he had I wouldn't want to go up against and I felt they were sort of restricted on the wing and opening the pitch up more centrally and there's a big help for him and then the rest is him. So I've been really pleased to see his development and I just want more from him because I think with what he's got attribute-wise I think there's still more to come. Are you talking about his dribbling ability then? When you say you wouldn't have liked to play against that sort of thing? Yeah, and sometimes you don't want to dribble in the middle of the park but at the same time when players in midfield have an ability to go past, you always remember. I'm not comparing by the way but I'm always remembering that I was a player as a midfield player that could sort of take you in and then go past you both ways as such and I always found that a difficult threat in game. So I think when a player has that talent and can play but also has vision and pass and you know, off the ball work rate then I think it's something that you really want to work with and can be a big help for the team. Just last of all, is he the kind of player you're looking to maybe reward with a new contract to know it's a fair way off his deal but his contract talks aren't going at all this time? Yeah, yeah. I know that Kevin is speaking with Alex's people on that front so we'll see how that one develops. So willing long term, you see a long term? For sure. For sure. Thanks. Thanks. Thanks, I'll still go to Carl at the acres. Just to go back on Anthony's yellow cards it is still early in the season to be having this sort of suspension. Just wondering, do you go as far as analysing the bookings he's had and advising him on that? Yeah, I think it's something to analyse and I've had those conversations with Anthony. Is it, from what you've seen, is it only a young lad, so is it youthful exuberance or is it just a bit naive to hear an experience? What do you think it's down to? I think that's a conversation with me to have with Anthony. I don't think it's worth hanging on too much. He's taken on too many bookings. I'm more worried about his whole game and just working with him on that front. The booking thing has been a small part of that too. Obviously you're keen for him not to impact his overall play. You're focused on what he offers the team, not... I don't want to lose him for a game. That's the reality of it and also probably if you get an early booking then it changes the aspects of the game in the modern day so fast that you could get a red. There's obvious reasons why you want to address that. I'll spoken with him about it. Thank you. Okay.