 Welcome to Toffee TV and it's the Everton News Daily. Rafa Benitez has said that that Luka Dean has asked to leave the club. He was asked many questions on the Luka Dean situation. Lots of questions and he gives lots of interesting replies but one of them was that Luka Dean had asked to leave the club. He said he'd had a couple of conversations with him and he told what do you expect the manager to do when he's thinking about leaving. He says I will say it again. Fans and former players, what would Peter Rite say if a player goes to the manager? He doesn't want to be here. Simple. That's after he'd already said that about the fans. So basically he's basically saying that Luka Dean doesn't want to be here ever and that's why he's been frozen out of the team. I think he was just trying to get it across to fans that what options does he have when a player doesn't want to be at the club. He was asked about why he was named on the bench against Brighton. He said because as a manager you have to be responsible. You have the responsibility to try and do what the best for the club. Sometimes you play for that. He was asked what inquiries had there been and have there been any bids and he said I will say to you I'd like to sign Harlander and Bappie. I can do inquiries but I have to commit myself. We need commitments. We don't need inquiries so basically there's been no bids by the looks of it. Just people getting in touch with it. He said he's not in charge of negotiations. When someone is asking they have to commit themselves to say okay I will buy or I will make an obligation or something people can talk and talk. I'm really pleased with Dominic but if you bring me in Bappie I will be happy too. Can I do it? Well I can make an inquiry and then you will go oh they are interested and that's it. He was asked if he was disappointed with the situation. He said I'm a professional and trying manager since the first day here. I know what the fans want. When you're not winning it's more difficult. The reality is that we need players who want to be here for any reason. So I'm not starting. When the team finished 10th it means nothing to me. What we want is a winning mentality. I want ambition. It will take some time maybe but at least we try and do things in the right way. He was asked how do you make sure it doesn't have an impact on the dressing room. He says not really. Everyone knows each other really well. He was asked if he could explain why Lucas Dean wanted to leave the club and he said I have an explanation. So there you go. He's been quite cataclysmic on there. He wants that Lucas Dean wants to leave the football club. I think he's got it clear across clearly. Very interesting situation but I think there's been a lot of noise with it. The peter recombent was a bit strange. Not sure whether that was having a dig at peter ead or whether he was just saying players like peter ead. Not really sure. But in any case he's getting it across, trying to get it across to fans that Lucas Dean does not want to be at ead ever and therefore he has to manage the situation the best thing he can. He brought in obviously Michael Lenker to play in that position so we'll see tomorrow what happens. He was asked about the talk of telling John Philippe Gabam and he could leave. He said that he denies that he told John Philippe Gabam or told John Philippe Gabam that he could find a new club. He said he didn't say that. He said he's been in contact with his agent and the player and he hasn't said that. He said there's options open but he hasn't said that. So interesting stuff and he said on the long shaft situation he said to be fair and focused on games. Others are working on names and negotiations so we have different options He said there's different names and we are working on them so it's clearly something going on with more transfers but he's not giving out any clues as at the moment and he said there's plenty of time left with the rest of the month Yeah, very... Can we just win some games of football and put all this sort of stuff behind us please It's just getting silly now That's what we need to do. Just win a game of football tomorrow On tomorrow we said that he didn't say it but there is no Dominic Carvel living because they are trying to manage him after being out for four months so it's likely that or hopefully he'll be available for Tuesday He might be on the bench tomorrow. There's no Jerry Mina, no Tom Davis There's no Jared Branthwaite, none of them are available so he's still put out a strong side He was asked about Michael Lenker and he was asked about Patterson and he said he's going to have a think about that because they haven't played many games recently and he has to look at the condition of them but he hasn't ruled it out so that's interesting and he wasn't really giving anything away about the team selection or what he's going to do which is quite typical of Rafa Benitez because he doesn't really talk about team news or who is available, who definitely isn't available but Evan did put out about those players being unavailable for the game so all we can offer is that we get through tomorrow and it's a good performance and take us on to Tuesday against Leicester huge game at Gunsham Park and then Saturday against Knowledge City which will be a massive game as well because Evan has to get three points from that he was asked about the situation with Luca Dean and obviously people have inquired, there's been talk of bids from the media and it sounds like there hasn't been any bids for him and it's just been inquiries from different clubs so we'll have to wait and see what happens but obviously Rafa Benitez is trying to get it out there that this is the player who wants to leave Evan not him wanting Luca Dean to leave Evan and the fans believe that or you know it's not a case about taking sides I think it's a case of just moving on from the situation if Luca Dean's not the left back of Evan then put the Michael Encho in and let's just get on with it and get Dean out so there you go Evan I've been linked with a move for Alexi Sanchez today ex Arsenal, ex Manchester United player nah I think we'll leave that one, thank you very much he's moved to Aston Villa now so that's obviously not going to happen and I don't think Evan really were too interested in the player that would have been the agent touting the player around to Evan Football Club Evan might have had a little luck at the deal and decided no thanks but obviously still trying to replace Jack Reales so he's gone to Villa so there you go, I won't wish him good luck because I want him to massively fail but there you go, there you go so obviously game tomorrow, 5.30 kickoff against Hull City make sure you check out our match preview, make sure you check out our start on the 11th show and make sure you check out all the videos after the game there you go, the Everton under 23s beat Sheffield United 3-1 last night, couple of good goals from Stanley Mills, the son of Danny Mills, particularly the third goal that was in the Premier League Cup so good win for those lads there you go, thank you for watching, make sure you give this video a like, subscribe if you haven't already, if you want more great videos, daily live videos join us over on Patreon, the link is in the description, it'll be on the screen now thanks for watching, see you later