 Welcome to Toffy TV, we're going to have a chat about Nathan Patterson, who has been doing very well so far this season, both from Rangers last January for £11 million, obviously there's add-ons to be put in there. It didn't go so well for him in the first few months, he was at it only managed 45 minutes against Borum Wood in the FA Cup and then picked up an ankle injury when he should have been starting. Let some people to talk about waste and money and what's going on with this kid. I'd even seen mad stories that haven't been ready to loan him out in the summer and all that, but obviously that was nonsense. When I came back, played, actually played a few games with Scotland in the summer and then came back to pre-season and it's got better and better really hasn't it and settled in. Maybe some of that was down to the fact that James Coleman has picked up an injury but he started in the first team and now looks like a player you can't take out the first team. I think it would have been nice to have seen a little bit more of him last year. It's strange early because I think in a way maybe the injury was a blessing in disguise for him and for us in a way because of having James Coleman and having to stick with him and having to use his experience and to get through that difficult spelling offering and someone young and he want to deal with that pressure and I think starting this season he's been at the club for a while now. I don't know if you're wrong, I feel really sad for him that he got the injury and he meant to miss the Scotland playoff games and they didn't qualify so that was a big blow for him. He's come back for the new season, clean slate, starting a new season in the Premier League, obviously not having Seamus. He played all pre-season at right wing back really wasn't it and then started the season playing in that role, played a couple of games in that role or two, three games and obviously we've gone into a back four and now he's playing as a right back and I think just as he's gone along he's got stronger and stronger and if you're looking for a way, if you're looking for how you should sign players or how you should bring players into your club to bring a player who wants to face Joyce at his club but had all that promise and spend 12 million quid on him, I think it will be a really good deal when you step back and look at it because I just think he's such a good talent, he's got so much energy and so much ability to hopefully turn us with a steal from Rangers. Remember when we signed and we did a piece with a Scottish journalist up there, me and he talked of him as being a once in a generation type player which obviously you're excited about and then many didn't kind of get in, you know, come in under wrath of Benitez, Benitez had gone a couple of weeks later and then didn't kind of get his chance and Lampard came in, Frank Lampard came in and he still couldn't get in. You did start thinking, you know, is he going to, is he really just going to be, you know, playing that waiting game? Is he good enough? Can he do it? And you never really know until, and I suppose the player never really knows until he's in the mix of things and he's playing in the Premier League because it is such a tough league and it's hard to forget that he isn't actually 21 yet either. He's not 21 till the middle of October, you know, when to come down. He hadn't played loads of games for Rangers either, so you didn't really have that much, kind of like, body of evidence of his work, you know, of, you know, this is what he's done and he starts loing on whatever, whatever, because obviously Tavir near up there, there captain and he scores a lot of 20 goals a season and, you know, was key to everything they were doing so it was a case of being a little bit unsure about him I think. But like you just said, he had all the right attributes, big, quick, good on the ball, Scottish, so like a challenge, like to get in. And I think certainly someone that, Evertonians will love and are loving right now, you know, we've, we have had that relationship with Scottish players over the years and, you know, they're always fearless. You think back to Stephen Naysmith and, you know, Dunk, people like that, who, you know, we've had many more haven't we? So it's got that relationship Andy Gregory and she are all of those kind of players and he really has took the bull by the horns this season and just have a look at his numbers so far from this season. There we go, so six games played, every game so far, interceptions per game, 1.3, dribble pass per game, 0.7 per game, tackles 3.7 and clearances, he's got three a game and that day like his defensive stats to be dribble pass less than once a game I think is a key indicator that he is actually a good defender because I know we talked a lot about when we got him about how good he was going the other way with the ball. It's something I haven't heard in either but it's surprising with how good he's looked as a defender certainly when we've gone to a back four those couple of games. I think in the back four I think he's looked a lot better, I think in a wing back position. I think there were occasions where he allowed people to get past them a little bit easier or say the forest game where he switched off with the forest goal because it's an in between position isn't it? It's almost like a special position, playing as a wing back. I know he's played there before, played there for Scotland but he's come to the Premier League and having to bed in there even though obviously offensively that's his best side of his game I think but you've got to know the other side of the game. I think as he's gone back to a back four I think it's made it a lot easier for him to understand what is required from him and I think he's become a lot more defensively rigid and you still get the other side from him because he is a runner, he is someone who will get forward, who will almost run past the ball at times and offer himself but I think defensively I think he's looked a lot better in a back four and you'll be tested a lot more this season but you know obviously in the last game playing against someone like Lewis Diaz who I think that was Diaz's quietest game since he's joined Liverpool in the Premier League. First time he'd never dribble past an opponent in the Premier League with shows. I mean his numbers for the Liverpool game just touched on it was easily his best display, 79 touches of the ball, 9 clearances, 8 tackles, 7 ball recoveries and like you say the first time Diaz hasn't been able to dribble past an opponent since he arrived at Liverpool so you know he is a huge player. And that almost infers that he spent the whole game defending but he didn't, he spent as much time with the other end of the pitch trying to join up you know I think he had a shot that just got deflected wide you know he was trying to put crosses into the, put the cross in for when Tom Davis hit the post so he played both ways and I think he played like a modern fullback defended well but then got forward and I think that's, it's so important that players bedding really really quickly. Exactly when you are, you know when you've seen him when Evan have got a few in there and it's effectively a whole new defence isn't it this year so it's important that someone like him beds in really quickly and I feel like every game he's just gone up a little level and I think it was noticeable how well he did against Leeds. I think that was you know when he went back to, that was the first game he went to a back four wasn't it so and he just, that game he played so well. Diolch aroswns very good. Yeah that argument you know maybe Leeds is best player so he bedded in so well into going into a right back position and you know I think the fans love what he offers I think they love the, you know he's seen him happening when he's in tackles or blocks and he's punching the air that kind of thing you can see how much it means to him and for a young player you want to bed them in quickly, get them used to it and you know you want to, as a fan you want to show them what, what that all that stuff means to us as well and then you're right we've always loved that kind of thing that side of the game we've always enjoyed, we've always enjoyed the physical side and players winning tackles and how he can change the, change of course of a game, change the course of a season in some instances yeah so he's had a really really good start of the season. I think you know he has done brilliantly defensively, one thing he would say is when we know that he is good defensively he's scored a goal for Scotland, he had 10 caps and scored one goal for him and it was a good goal as well and we've seen him and you know we had opportunities in the Leeds game he could have won it for us if he'd have gone across the keeper. Live a pool like you just mentioned, had a shot and it fades off and I came in into the side net and that's the area now that he's got to add goals and assists now because that's what we see him as an offensive fullback, someone who can run up and down all day and if he can do that because that's what Sheamus did, if he can do that for us then it gives us another source of goals from somewhere else in the team. Well having a midfield that balance that's got three in it that can cover for those positions and those players feel like they can get up and down that was what was the staple of when Baines and Sheamus Coleman were doing scoring their goals and making their assists knowing that when they get forward someone's going to protect that position and I think that will really help as well. I think that is something we've missed in the last few years obviously Lucadena left back added some goals but not a lot of goals that were not set pieces and I think that's important now. You know we start adding those kind of goals to everything because as you start cutting don't you, they don't score, they don't score, they don't score, you can start adding that fullback score, centre back score, the old goal, some of the midfield score goals, then suddenly changes the aspect of where you're going to finish because obviously goals equal points. And just finally is this type of player, the profile that really evidence should be looking at, we've seen this somewhere obviously Amadur Waunana brought in as well, James Garners coming from Manchester United, another young player but Paterson like you said right at the very start is only 20s not 21s, but a good athletic player with loads of potential. So is this the type of profile that Evan need more of as we move forward? Yeah I mean I think when we signed and I think to a few people the idea of signing ranges back up right back seemed a bit of a strange one really but he played a lot of international games for Scotland certainly in that season that he was coming into Evan. And I think if the Welsh scouted, the funny thing about Nathan Paterson is that he was clearly Marcel Branser signing, after Marcel Branser signed by a manager who never got to use him and was given to another manager who didn't get to use him in that season, such an odd set of events. But if you scout a player properly and you can get in there when they're young and you can, you know, regardless of where they're starting, I mean look, Amadur Waunana starts for Leo last season he was nothing, you know, you look at the numbers he did. Is there somebody in there already that is, you know, is a regular and that's just the way, as a young player comes through, that's another reason not to sign a player. If you see the potential in them and you can get them for a good price, then get them. Don't be scared to go in and get them and this is where Evan and the last few years have missed a few and I've gone, oh, we'll get, we'll get. We'll go and get the guy who's actually been playing in front of them and it's that thing of, yeah, but you could get the next thing, you could get the next one. And if you can get them a year early as well before you actually need them and that's where Evan and I've got to start looking now. What's the next position on the pitch that you need to, you need in the next couple of years to replace? You've got to forward to think who might leave? Who's, you know, looking too far from retiring or is getting to the point where you don't really want that play of that age in the first team? You've got to start playing and go, right, there's a kid there who plays for so-and-so, we can get him for eight million quid, get him signed up next couple of years and he's going to take over. And that should be what we're looking to do now and, you know, I know other clubs are doing that, you look at the success of someone like Brighton, that's what they've been doing. But a lot of top clubs are doing it now because it's the, you know, since the FFP rules came in, a lot of other clubs have had to change how they do things to satisfy that. And a lot of clubs in Europe have realised also that financially they can't keep up with the likes of Manchester City and the likes of Paris Saint-Germain and there's no point doing that. You've got to go on there for those gems and everything really should have been doing this for the last four or five years, you know, and we haven't and now it looks like we are. Nathan Patterson is one of the first of them and, you know, he's in the first team when he's playing and long may that continue and hopefully he gets better and better. Absolutely. Let us know what you think in the comments section below. How impressed have you been by Patterson and is this the type of profile that everything needs to continue with as we move forward? And move away from the old model of always buying established 27, 28-year-olds on big money. Let us know in the comments section below. Give the video a thumbs up, subscribe. 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