I have started this season by producing numbers to do justice to my ability.

Scoring four goals and providing three assists is decent in anyone’s book. But we’re talking about a few weeks.

Seven games don’t make a successful signing. I want double figures for both goals and assists this season – and I have a manager who is never satisfied.

Let me give you an example of how Rafa Benitez pushes his players.

When I scored and supplied an assist against Burnley at Goodison Park there was no pat on the back.

Rafa came on the pitch at the final whistle and after a quick, ‘Well done’, was telling me what I could have done better.

I crossed from out wide for Michael Keane to score our first goal.

But Rafa doesn’t want me wide. It was great it worked on that occasion but he is asking me to come infield, to areas where I can be more effective.

The sort of positions where I picked up the ball to score my goal in the same game.

It would have been easy for the manger to say, ‘Brilliant, great goal and assist’. But doing a good job is not enough.

Rafa demands the very best.

I absolutely love that type of man management.

I want to improve myself every day and he loves improving players, so it is a match made in heaven.

My goal against Burnley generated a lot of attention and people will say I score spectacular goals but not regular goals.

That is fair comment and it is something I am determined to address.

I can shoot with both feet and have the quality to consistently produce goals and assists.

I’ve scored a couple of tap-ins and a penalty already this season and I want to finally realise my potential with Everton.

If listen to the manager and get in the positions he wants his winger, I will get on the end of crosses and score more scrappy goals.

It means everything to me that I am playing for Everton.

I knew I was good enough for this opportunity but didn’t expect it to happen. In fact, a club of the size and stature of Everton coming for me was beyond my wildest expectations.

I am on the right track but need to keep working hard and scoring and assisting to keep hold of this shirt.

It is a similar sentiment when talking about the team. We’ve had a positive start and taken points from tough opponents despite some terrible luck with injuries.

But nobody at Everton is looking at the table, that can wait until we’ve played all the top sides.

And it will be a step up on Saturday when we face Manchester United. We know what we have in our dressing room and will go there confident of achieving the result we want.

It is an opportunity to see how good we are and where we stand compared to one of the best teams in the division.

The Cristiano Ronaldo effect is currently in full flow. Ronaldo was destroying the Premier League back when I was beginning my career.

He is someone my generation looks up to and you’ll see players copying things he did: the holes in the socks, coming out of the tunnel last, those little idiosyncrasies.

I watched the analysis after Ronaldo scored a late winner against Villarreal on Wednesday. Fans were still in the stadium singing his name and you could sense the buzz.

They will bring that energy and atmosphere into Saturday and we need to handle that and take the game to Manchester United.

Teams have won at Old Trafford this season and I had a victory there with Crystal Palace last season.

We need one more push, then, hopefully, we’ll have important players back after the international break.

I can’t wait to link up with Dominic Calvert-Lewin again. In the Premier League last season, I delivered the most successful crosses and he scored the most headers, so it is a dream to be playing with him.

I feel I am hitting my prime physically and need to work hard technically and mentally to reach the level I had when I played for England.

I am at a great club and will do everything to try to be a success here.

But we’ve done nothing yet. Everton had a good start last season and we will try to avoid any mistakes that happened then.

With this manager, there is no chance of us resting on our laurels.