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Adam Mekki has insisted he would feel the pain of relegation just as much as any other Ebbsfleet United player.
Mekki is on loan from Bromley until the end of the season but that doesn’t stop him caring as much as anyone else in the Fleet squad.
“No one wants a relegation next to their name, regardless of whether you are here on loan or whatever,” said Mekki.
“This is a big club and a good club, one that I’ve really enjoyed being a part of.
“It’s a shame this is the situation but we’ve got to go out there and try to save the club, really.”
Mekki, 28, had his best game in a Fleet shirt in the midweek win at Maidenhead – operating as a left wing-back.
A winger by trade, Mekki doesn’t care where boss Kevin Watson fields him.
“It’s been a stop-start season for me coming back from a serious injury and not getting as many minutes as I’d like to,” said Mekki.
“The manager has given me the chance to come here and play regular football and I’m loving it.
“I’ve played in five different positions since I’ve been here but I’m just happy to be out there. He says ‘are you happy here or there’ and I just say ‘I’m happy to be out there’.
“Naturally I’m a winger and I have been for a long time but all the roles I play – in front of the back four, as a ten, up front, out wide – I’m just happy to be out there.
“There’s a real togetherness so I’m just happy to be playing in games that really mean something. There’s a lot of pressure on us.
“We left ourselves in a situation where every game is massive. Sometimes it doesn’t matter who you are playing against, we just know that three points is minimum now.”
Fleet set the standard for the rest of their season at Maidenhead but Mekki insisted that every game will be different now.
“A draw or a loss was not acceptable (at Maidenhead),” he said. “We felt it was a foul for their goal but we stayed strong and knew the way we were going to play.
“It was great to see the two front boys get the goals.
“Every game is different. We’ve got to take each one as it comes and adapt to formation but ultimately, we need to go out to win every game regardless.
“We had the pressure on Saturday at Chesterfield and to lose 4-0 in 25 minutes was really disheartening.
“We knew the pressure was on and that we needed to get a result. We said before the game that Maidenhead are a team we could potentially drag into it."
