 Welcome to ToffeeTV, it is the first match preview of the 2018-2019 Premier League season, Everton vs Wolves, Wolves vs Everton. I hate playing for the motor teams on the first day of the season, especially away, but it's never great, it's just everything to lose isn't it? Yeah, honestly, yeah. But I feel as though this time with our new signings, not playing, just kind of like a little bit of it. Yeah, you know, you've played a team that isn't as good, but you know, it's going to be tough on the good side last season, they've made some excellent signings, which we'll talk about in a minute. Well, they are a good side, obviously promoted, did really, really well, they've got a lot of talent, probably one of the most talented teams footballing wise to be promoted out of the championship, I would say. Obviously with the manager and with the Mendes connection bringing players in, they've got a lot of talented players there already. And they've just added to that over the summer by bringing in some really exciting, experienced players that not a lot of championship sides have been promoted. They've had the ability to attract, but again, as I said, having that Mendes connection has allowed them to get those players in, having the agents who represent the club and the players. Listen. Do what you can do. Do what you can do as a football club, I suppose. I don't think they're breaking any rules, so a lot of people will probably be annoyed about that situation. And it's going to be very interesting to see how this team progresses. A lot of people are tipping them for top seven, which is interesting because I think sometimes this happens when people don't quite understand the gap between the championship and the Premier League. But listen, I suppose from their point of view, it's how fast those new players gel and get themselves settled to get, you know, start picking up good results. Definitely. I mean, they finished last season at 99 points. Very, very good side. The gap is huge. The gap is huge. We've seen other teams tear the championship up and come up and struggle. You know, Redding got the most points under Steve Cople, I think he got 106 in, or 106. I think he was in 2005, 2006 and everyone was like, these will put, you know, and then you finish mid-table because it is so tough to leave. There's teams who've been in the Premier League for years, spent a lot of money, it was struggle to get up the bottom half of the table. So it's not as easy as what you think. What I will say to that is, they're a very good footballer and said they have a good way of playing and they play that way constantly. And that gives them probably a leg up on other clubs who've come up and maybe on a club like Cardiff who've come up. They've spent 67 million net this summer. Which is not even the most from one of the promoters. No, no, Fulham has spent 105 million only. They brought in Adama Treyori from Middlesbrough for 18 million. He's their record signer. What a pace. What a pace. Diogo Giota, who I think had some time alone at Brentford at one stage. He's from Atletico and he was 13 million. Willie Bowley, centre-back from Porto, 10 million. Gia Mutinio, who nearly moved to Everton about 11 times for 5 million from Monaco. Leo Benati, Bonattini from Hilarland, Saudi Arabia. He's a striker. He was 5 million. Ruben Vinnige, it looks like. Is it 2 million from Monaco? He's a left-back Monaco B, that is. Leander Dendonka, on loan. Very good player. What a view to a player from Anderlecht. He's a real player. Raal Jimenez, who was linked with Everton all of last summer from Benfica, who did want a 45 million pound for him. They've got him on loan for 2 million. Hello, Judge. Johnny, who's a left-back from Atleti, he's on loan. And obviously Rui Patricio, who walked out of his sport and Lisbon contract. So they've got him for nothing. Hello, Judge. Good side. Some good players there. Can Nuno Espirito Santo, knitted all together. Yeah. It'll be a tough season for them. I think. Yeah. But I think if they get it, right? Yeah. Why not? Why not be a team that is in the top 10? I mean, you mentioned the players they brought in there. I mean, they're main danger man last year. Ruben Neves, absolutely fantastic footballer. He's by far the danger man. Silky. I think, personally, the long-term plan behind him is a good season in the Premier League this season. And he will move on next summer because he had a lot of clubs looking at him this season in the summer. He's linked actually with Liverpool quite a lot. I'm not surprised. He's linked with everybody, but I think he is one who they look at and think really good player. Being a good striker a couple of years, don't want to beat Liverpool, they have fake up a few seasons. They've got to go football and the side then. I think they've got Conor Cody at the back who was at Liverpool. Very, very good. Good player. As well. And Triori, they will be, for me, day-to-day three, they will be the three to watch out for against Devon. If Triori, of course, starts the only shine on Deadline. I think that's an interesting thing that they've done with the link-up with Mendes. It obviously gives them a pipeline to players. It's a win-win situation. You wouldn't expect a lot of these players to stay, the bigger name players to stay maybe more two years. And then maybe try and push on to a champions league kind of club, but it's win-win. If there's a pipeline, if Neves stays this year and does really well and then maybe stays next year, let's just say, and then moves on and then you bring in the next one or you've already got the next one lined up, then you can argue with that system. So, you know... Remember, if you're playing good football, people will get behind you and people will want to see it. They won 30 of the games last season, scored 82 goals and conceded 39. Showed you a good goal scorer. I think they created the most chances. I think big chances were dropped when you card teams opened and I think they finished something like 26 big chances above the next best team. So, they do create a lot of chances. Possession-wise, as good a football inside as they are, they only had the eighth best possession in the Champions year, but they did have most of their possession in the now in their own third. So, playing around with it at the back and what they try to do a lot and I've done a bit, I watched a few of the few little bits and pieces from them. It's the full-backs play really high on the halfway line. They push right up and then it's long diagonal balls in behind and because they've got that pace, they're coming in from wide areas. So, that's something ever and we'll have to watch out for because obviously we've seen in three seasons and we are high up the pitch. Yeah, I think the problem of playing a team like this first game of the season is they've got that momentum from last season. They've got that winning feeling. They know it all well. The fans will be well behind and be back in the Premier League and everything is stacked against everyone for this game. It's live on TV. Everyone really probably wants Wigan to win. Wolves to win, everyone wants Wolves to win and everything's sort of stacked against everyone and you've got that first day sort of thing as well, a first day bounce. It's not even a first day. You get a fuck the first. The season for me doesn't really kick off probably till after the international window. I mean, that might be true. I used to say that just because that's when the window shut. So, it might be maybe like two or three games but realistically, you know, if you've bought like we have, we're not going to see the best of the players we've bought or might not see any of them till after that window break, you know, break anyway. So, it's really difficult and we've seen this, you know, we've seen this a couple of seasons. We even see that last season, you know, going to Man City, second game in, catching them a little bit cold before they'd really got their rhythm going and we got a point there and it was early on for us and the games hadn't gone on top of us yet. Season before, we go in, you know, get a drug and space first game, then beat West Brom and beat Sunderland and, you know, Middlesbrough. Middlesbrough and then it was that sort of spell afterwards that we stuffed it with when all the other teams had settled down and we didn't really have a way of playing apart from Balasi giving it to Lukaku and scoring and we never really got that way of playing so it was that first sort of couple of, you know, weeks, month optimism and catch people on the way is almost, can't you? I think we'll be well-drilled. One thing you'll say about them is they do work incredibly hard in the defensive there. They conceded the least few a shot on their goal out of anybody. The caveats that had his Premier League players are a lot better at the sharp when you make a mistake, it's normally a goal or that's what some teams find that when they make those mistakes, they're punished. I remember Bournemouth coming up and he was absolutely brilliant in the championship. The football was amazing, you know, the way he played it and he was a real, a real against-the-grain championship side when they come up because of the way Eddie Hall plays and he struggled, he stayed up and they've stayed there since but he struggled because they were open. They won a few games early on and then people got on top of them and Eddie Hall said, just, it's, we're making mistakes that we were getting away with in the championship, you don't get away with them here. You know, teams will, you're playing against world-class players, that's what the Premier League is and to be honest with you, most teams have got, not world-class players but most teams have got some excellent players who were really, you know, miles better than anything in the championship so if you're making them kind of mistakes against them, they're all, every team's got half a dozen at least international footballers at least, at least. So even though Wolves will be very good and have some great players that they just bought or really ones that look really good, they're still going to find it difficult because most of those players they brought in and opened up abroad by the way so the Premier League is unforgiving anyway. So, you know, I don't think it'll be as smooth as some pundits but I think they've got a good side, they've got great back and the fans are brilliant down the top style place to go. It's going to be a real tough battle for Everton because it is day one but on the flip side of that, you know, we've got a new manager and we've got players who are now most definitely now playing for their Everton career and we've got real threat in that final third, real threat in that final third now that we haven't had for a while in terms of, we've had Lukaku in the past who was the threat but I think what you've got now with Everton is you've got three or four players who can get something from nothing. I think for us tomorrow it's about, you know, what we've seen in pre-season is defensively, that's where we've been called short. I think we've just got to be wary of what we leave behind and obviously play to the fixture, you know, it can't always be, it can't always just be going after the first game of the season we've got to try and go there and get something, you know, I remember when Martinus' first game went down to Norwich similar circumstances, obviously Norwich nowhere near as good as them but you know, I remember that day was 2-2 and it was all action, everything's just like back playing football, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. And I think it'll be similar tomorrow, in the nature, it'll be, it's a fresh start for both teams, you know, they're back on the Premier League, we've got a new manager, I think we've got to use our experience a little bit, we've got to be a little bit wiser to it and get something out of the game because I think you try to, what we should be doing tomorrow is trying to just calm everything down in the first 15 minutes slow it down, everything's throwing, goal kick, take your time kill the game, try and kill the game a little bit and then get in the, as with any Premier League game, the first goal is fight, I think if Everton get it, it'll knock them back a little bit, not saying all of a sudden they won't be able to play their natural game but it'll jolt them a little bit and give us something to hang on to, I think if they go ahead could be a bumpy afternoon because they will obviously get the confidence from that but it's a tough start for us, there's no there's no question about it but it's a tough start for them, let's not make any bones or bar at Everton with the 8 best side in the league last season, giving everybody else a 4 month start, which is effectively what we did and we still finished 8th, you know and we could have caught barely, we were capable of catching them with 2 games, 3 games to go, haven't given them a literally a 4 month start on us and pulled a 20 odd point lead back to within the couple so Everton have got plays you can hit, you've got plays you can score goals plays you can punish you but we are at this moment in time, we haven't looked great at the back and if you're Wolves that's what you'd be focussed on, definitely let us know your thoughts in the comments on this, do you fancy us to take the 3 points or are you sort of thinking we'll you know, we've got the plays in but obviously they're not available yet so it's a bit of a, we'll be happy with what we get in and this is not to be on the end though because the plays can't play and let us know your thoughts in the comments Wolves fans, cos I know there'll be some watching let us know who you're a danger man, are you worried at all about Everton, what you think your season is going to be like and what you think this game is going to end up, let us know in the comments if you haven't already subscribed please do, click the bell for a late and if you want more videos join us over on page and we'll see you later