 We are going toffee TV joined by Andy L at El Pavoti on Twitter if you don't follow him. Hi. Follow him because he's a very knowledgeable scout and amongst analysts and amongst other things. Just going to have a little chat here about Carlo Ancelotti. First video we've done really on Ancelotti. It is. Since he was appointed I think we've done something on manages before Christmas, but he's in and... Just really, I mean got some of his things up there with him one at my land. Just first and foremost, probably the best manager I've ever been able to do without the... In terms of name value, definitely in terms of reputation, in terms of history of winning things, then yeah, I can't. Perhaps obviously one of the lot of trophies he's not come to ever, so yeah, definitely in terms of pedigree, yeah he's the best player. Fantastic for the club obviously to get him in, and I'm sure, I know he's well-themed. It also helps that he can speak perfect English, he knows the Premier League as well, so that's another major plus, it's no adaptation really. I think with someone like Ancelotti, there's no question mark over his pedigree. He's won, you know, champion three champions leagues, he's won leagues in multiple countries, he was a brilliant player, won trophies as a player. You know, things won 20 trophies as a manager, so no one can really, certainly as a fan base and players can't turn around and go well and gone. You can't question his ability or his pedigree or anything. I suppose, like myself, you can question the fit, but I think it was Alomai who said perfectly, you know, Everton should sort of fit, try and fit him as much as you should try and fit us in the middle, and that would work perfectly, so yeah, I think in terms of name value, you're not going to get more than many better managers really. And someone who can carry the club on the shoulders. Exactly, he's the number one, you know, in the sense you don't need to speak to Marcel Brand, you speak to Carlo Ancelotti as Everton in the sense he's the face of Everton. And we've kind of needed that. We need that presence, we need that presence you do, and you know, if you ever want to be considered a big club and be taken seriously, you need a manager with pedigree or at the very least someone with great presence and he's got both of course, yeah. I suppose the difficult thing for him is that he's come in mid-season and he's come in at a time where there was four games in 11 days, you know, he's only been manager for just over two weeks now. And that always brings its own problems, doesn't it, especially within to these? That's why a lot of managers won't take jobs pre-seasons because they do like, you know, especially to get your philosophies over. You need that pre-season to weed out the players you don't want and see who fits and who doesn't get the players in. So it is difficult coming in pre-season, however. Mid-season. Mid-season. He's coming in mid-season, but I think Carlo understands that Everton need it, you know, he can't wait till the summer. I think he needs to get in now, get in and start working now and I think this next six months he'll start sorting things out, weed the players out, he'll fit his system, find who does and improve players. And I think next season, obviously, we'll hopefully be able to sign four or five players of good quality in the summer. Then we'll be much better for him. I think this week, as we've spoke about on the podcast, these go out of time with the players, start getting his philosophy over in more detail. And I think that will benefit the club, yeah. I suppose he can use this next part of the season to really start shaping things for next season. And now, it feels like we've said this a few times over the last few years, you know, this manager will be able to do this. But this is the first one for me, really. Real proper top appointments, you know, since David Moy's left. We got Roberto Martinez, I wasn't a fan before we got him. The way humanity had been relegated, he didn't know how to defend. And for the first season he was brilliant and then it kind of wheels came off. Cumin, it was a big name, but it wasn't really that bad that it was in. Marco Silva, you know, a young up-and-coming coach, but yet he was an experienced, really. It's a sort of expectation with him. You know, I suppose if you're from Europe and you're of a certain age, you might not understand how big a club Everton is now. The expectation of the fans is also huge. The magnitude of the club is big within the city as well. So taking the job, I think playing for Everton is much different than players. You've come from smaller sides, smaller clubs have found the heart. The expectation is different. You need someone who's been under the cosh, under the gaslight, as they say, under the pressure. And you know, Milan, you know, made your club in Real Madrid. No bigger club in the world in football. He is someone who can withstand, you know, declare, if you will. So I think that's one major, major, major, major plus, if you will, that he is someone who can deal with all that and someone who can sort of, when he speaks, people will listen and they'll take him for his word rather. And I don't think we're going to find... I think, well, it's going to be times where we disagree. Of course, we always will. I don't think we're going to question his motions as much as we will with past managers. I don't think anyway. Well, that's it. I mean, listen, fans, the nature of fans, because it's so emotional to us watching the games and we like to pick our team at such a big part of our lives, our football club. You're always going to question a manager and what I mean by that is, go, well, why has he played him or have he just done this differently? I think that's wonderful as well. But I don't, yeah, of course. But I don't think anyone can say things like he does know what he's doing or they saw that because he's won stuff. That argument for me has rendered totally redundant because of... I mean, look, we've got AC Milan Stater on the screen there, you know, Serriat, Winner, Copa Italia, Super Cup, Italy Super Cup, Champions League, twice UEFA Cup, twice FIFA Club Wale Cup, that's just up Milan alone. Manager... I enjoyed that one very much. Out of seven was lovely. It was lovely when... That was the worst part. Out of five. Out of five. Did that ever happen to you now? No, it didn't happen. So, you know, Serial Winner without the shadow, without... That can only be good for the football club because, like we've said, we've had managers, say, in the past that haven't been Serial Winners. I think we've had managers where players could question and go, you know, David Moyes coming and built a different... We built it from players coming up, coming in the career and they wanted to do well. Some journey many gore and he had them wicks and a work ethic and he got players who had that work ethic and that's kind of why Everton generally worked under Moyes. And also he had that continuity with me. And the continuity was there. And if Moyes would have had a bit of money, he'd have done well. Since then, I think the choices we've made haven't been right. I don't think, as a club, I think we will... I know the fans don't like me saying this, but in a sense you're lucky to have David Moyes in the fact that he was willing to work under... Managers wouldn't stick for that. Totally different world now with the players. It is, yeah, yeah. And I think Moyes did work well under those circumstances. And since then, I think that we've chose poorly to follow for our sake circumstances. And they've have changed. Obviously Martina's was still under the same restrictions. He's boss. He's still spent money, a bit of money. And then obviously with Bashir, I think we went to spend happy and we didn't plan for the future. Obviously now we've got Marcel Brands and Shalotti both. You know, on reputation alone, I know people don't like to put brands in the same bracket, but Marcel Brands is in football anyway, maybe not in England or the city in the wild. It is considered one of the best director of footballs in the world. So people respect them massively. So hopefully this is our dream team, if you will. And we have to give it time to progress. He was at Chelsea, obviously had a stint at UEFA. He was at Chelsea one of the double in the 2010 season. Also a charity she'll finish runners-up the next year. I'm sacked at Godderson. Went to PSG, won the league there first title in 20 years. And I'm reading his book at the moment he talks. He spoke about the PSG bit and he was really surprised. He got rid of them, he said things changed. He got told to win this game. You know, if you don't win this next game, even though you've a track. It's a funny club, isn't it? And it was a bit mad. Obviously went off to Real Madrid. Ledesimer. Delivered Ledesimer. The Copa del Rey is super cup. Another FIFA club will champions here. Went off to Bayern, delivered the Bundesliga. Won two super cups there. And then obviously went to Napoli as well. And had runners-up in his first season with Napoli. And then obviously this season got them into the last 16 of the Champions League as well. The league form. They've had a lot of disharmony this season with the owner. And they've replaced them with Get You So. And he's losing home games left right centre as well. Maybe it's just the end of the Napoli cycle. That's sometimes happens. I think the one thing to take from this is obviously Carlos, but that's the greatest clubs. I think maybe now there's obviously been questions from certain quarters, maybe myself as well. Is this team right? Because it is such a talent level below where he's used to. But maybe at this point in his career, he wants to prove himself in a sense. I think managers do care criticism when people say you're only good with big teams. And I think they like to prove themselves in some way. I think that's why Marino maybe took the Manchester United job at the time. Even though he's still a massive club, I think he thought I can get them back on top like with Fakes and didn't think. I think Ancelotti sees the evident job as somewhere where he can prove himself because he doesn't need to. But show his full range of abilities as a manager. He can build a team and make us a force again. Because let's be honest here, apart from Marcus Llover 1, we're a league with Olympiacos. But we haven't had a manager who's one of the leagues since, I think, Howard Kendall the third time we've employed. So it's been a large step up, isn't it? And obviously, Carlos is a different type of manager. I think people need to understand that he doesn't really get overly involved in recruitment, obviously gives us opinions, but he's not more easily out there scouting players. He's not that type of manager. He's always worked on directors of football. So that fits with Everton's model. So he is quite a fit when you look under the trophies and then questions. He is a fit and he isn't someone who's going to rock the boat in terms of demanding masses amounts. Obviously he wants money to be able to, and brands obviously would like the money to spend to make the team better, because their reputations are on the line, of course. But he's not going to be demanding 30-year-old players left, right and centre, because if you look at his record, I think someone put it up there. He's very rarely signed players over 26 in the last, you know, so many years. Even at Real Madrid, they were buying younger players. He talks about building teams and building wants to stay. And there's a project, and he wants to be able to go into Bramley Mordoch and everything needs to give him everything he can to help him be successful. In terms of his playing style and stuff, we've talked about trophies and stuff like that. In terms of his playing style, we've seen him use a 4-4-2. Duncan had put the 4-4-2 in place, and he's come in and kept kind of that formation. There's a couple of little variations. We go to three at the back and try to overload in wide areas. In defensive situations, we drop back into that 4-4-2 and try to make it difficult for teams to play wide. This is something that he changed, that Napoli from Sarri Ball into what he'd done with them was rather than short intercapacitors. They were overloading the wings. It worked really well against Liverpool. Actually beat Liverpool twice, didn't he? And through one of the four games over the two years with Napoli. And we've seen that really in the couple of games so far. And what does, I mean, your kind of interest, what do you see? He's an adaptable manager, you know. Obviously at the moment he's playing the 4-4-2, which he's used for the last couple of years. And I think he looked at the three games that Duncan hadn't sold up, we had the players. And I think what you'll see is, when you play Liverpool, I don't think he'll ever line up again with two goalscoring wingers. I think he'd won in a Wob, you're a Bernard and the team. Well, I'll compare to the AC Milan situation. Someone who could cut inside and start getting the middle and creating things. So at AC Milan, he did it two ways. He had the 4-4-2 with Cacha dropping off the front, or he played a 4-3-1-2, but he still lined up defensively 4-4-2. We could too so step, moving out to the right to defend, to cover the right back, which was Caffee, obviously got forward, and then Seydorff would drop into the left wing spot. But when they attacked, Seydorff joined Cacha, Biansh, Eftchenco, and they had the three of them as a front three. So it's a hybrid 4-3-3 really, out of possession. So there's different ways you can work it. You play 4-3-3 at Bayern, obviously following on from Pep. I think that system suited them, especially Robinham Ribbery in the final days. And they also play 4-3-3 at Real Madrid. Whenever you set them in a field of Casimir or Cruz, more rich, which obviously, you make the use of your best positions in the field. So that's understandable. So he's mixed a match in the fact. I think the best thing about Ancelotti is that he has a philosophy of playing good football, he was a disciple. He was a very famous coach in the late 80s, early 90s. He really revolutionised Italian football out of Catanaccio, which is your sweepers system. He was very important in the sense that the next generation of Italian managers were much more attacking. Carl Ancelotti being one of his main disciples, really. Obviously, AC Milan was his biggest, but he also got your Ventus before that. So I think we'll see different types of formation. I think we'll see 4-3-3 at times. But if he's going to stick with the 4-4-2, I think you'll see it. It's sort of... If you will, it's sort of unbalanced, the way it will tane, sort of on its side, with the 4-4-2, with Charleston playing on the channels, sort of an oinga coming into the middle to try and create. And then you're right side, the player, maybe will be ball caught or maybe it'll be keen or whoever it's going to be cutting inside to make the second strike, the bad ball. There's all sorts of different ways. And it'll cause problems for teams because it's not a straight 4-4-2, you'll be lumping forwards to frontmen. You can be creating problems by having people drop out of position, drag players into different positions. And I think, as you'll see, once he starts coaching the team up, you'll start seeing the positional player, which hasn't been lacking a lot in the last two years in the sense that when we're in the final third, there's a lack of movement. We do tend to wait for the cross. Whereas I think what he's going to do is he'll create the space for Dean who will be that left back who gets forward possibly if it is going to be him on the other side, where they do create overloads on that side but we'll have people moving into the channels and dragging players out because what we would do on the silver unfortunately was we were creating space for Dean but everyone was patting to the middle and it was very easy for teams to work us out and I don't think it would be the same on the car. I think you'll have much more space to have much better patterns of playing transition as well. We've seen, I mean, just a couple of games certainly a good lesson against Burnley. We've seen that going from a 4-4-2 with Luke of Dean pushing right on and then Bernard coming off the wing and quite central into the pockets. I think we've missed out on the last couple of games having that ball carrier from that position that really did help us. So that's good that we've seen that and I think I suppose you can only go with it the minute what he's got. But if you look at Napoli, they midfield players Ruiz and people like that are quite mobile Callaghan, they go and what they were doing and Ruiz does it really well and particularly against Liverpool is they would shift from a 4-4-2 to a 3-4-3 but Ruiz, they drew Liverpool in out of the left back. Ruiz went and got tight to him because he could move and then they created one-two to cut through the press. As you say, it was slightly different than Sari and the Sari used to draw teams onto them with quick and tricky passes. They passed through Sari, it was actually the same thing to play the ball into transition. That's the key, changing the squad. I think last season we did add a bit of mobility where it would be good by. Unfortunately, people haven't been fit, people haven't been playing their proper positions and I think that will change under Carlos. We should see once for the fully fit squad and the additions that we're going to make a much more suited squad to Carlos until he starts to play. Just before we finished, Marshall Brand has had a little bit of criticism of Leith but there was having a conversation with Patrick Ridges and journalists today about it and you can question things lack of a centre back really. We need that extra centre back maybe another centre forward I guess. I'm a believer that we should develop the two we've got. I think brands will be helped by Anshloddur because I think Anshloddur has got a bigger voice than Mark Whistle and I think if they work together they'll definitely be able to get the players to keep on playing. Hopefully when everyone's fit up then the sign is that Marshall Brand has made will hopefully improve and then people will look and go and I understand why we've got him. The players who are going to be moved out the team aren't the brand's sign so the players are going to be building upon so we're going to be signing players in addition to them rather than move them and they're not the issue with the side. They lack a mobility which again I've said this before I really still don't know what Ronald Coon was trying to do. You built a side that was built for the 90s and you've got to live easier that I still don't know what he was going to try and do but that's the problem with the squad. There's a mishmash of those two styles and Michael Keane when we had a good season last season but he's not comfortable playing high lines and passing the ball round the back intricately and we need a different type of defender and they've changed the car and I think Marshall Brand is going to make them anyway but I think they'll help having a manager with a clear idea of how he wants to play in Anshloddur. Interesting times ahead but he's managed yet in charge of the side so let's try to and have a little bit of patience as much as we can. Obviously as we raise expectations but it's going to take him, not saying three seasons two seasons, it's going to take him a little bit of time to get a style of play and once we see that we'll see improvements for the end of the season kick on from there. Big thanks to Andy. Make sure you subscribe if you're having to want more videos join us on page and give the video a thumbs up. See you later.