“Sometimes in some exercises, he’ll say, ‘Beto, come here.’ And the exercise is still running, but he just stopped to explain to me some movement: ‘Maybe go here, you need to go here. When Jake [O’Brien] has the ball, you go to the back post or you go to the first post.’
“I don’t know why people kept thinking that we don’t have a good relationship. We are good. He taught me a lot and he put me under a lot of pressure. I go home thinking, ‘I need to be better. I need to be better. If not, he’s going to put me on the bench.’
“Sometimes I grab the staff after training and they say, ‘Beto, it’s enough.’ I said, ‘No, no. Let me keep doing the repetition, repetition, repetition because I need to improve.
“A striker needs to score goals. That is at every club. It is not that I didn’t like my time at Everton, but I didn’t like the way I performed until today. I feel like I could have done more.
“I think that I need to prove to myself, not just for the staff or for the fans, but prove to myself that I’m the No9.”