 Welcome to Toffy TV. Everton have signed Dwight McNeill from Bailey. A play of that for some reason we've been continually linked with for the last like two years. It's finally happened we've signed them. How wellmed are you on a scale of wellmed? Wellmed, wellmed, wellmed. Just on the well. Full wellmed. Not unless you need Everton have been linked with him for a while. I think Marcel Brans was a big fan of him. Last year Everton, I think, made a tentative enquiry. He was told 35 million, which was obviously way above any money we could afford anyway, but way above what I think he's worth as well. And barely have been relegated and this time I haven't have gone back for him. So we've got the deal done. And you can play a few positions. We're to probably Elfrank Llympard and we've moved to bring him in. He's a good age, 22, so obviously Everton looking in that younger age bracket, but a nice left foot on him as well. Hopefully he'll provide some delivery, some service for Dominic Alvidlun, who Everton seem to be doubling down on this season and rightly so. We haven't got anybody else who's a goal scorer right now, so giving the right service and if you do that, Dominic's proved he can score goals. Yeah, it's another left footer of course. We just brought one in and we brought another one in. So it does give us that balance that was a team that was desperately missing out on left footers. You know, you look at things like set pieces and that. There's something that would be massively needed. You know, set pieces since Dean left. Yeah, it's one of those where when you first did, you were like, certainly I was, yeah, really. Not much has changed on that front from me personally. One, I'm just a little bit, can't quite get my edge round it, but I suppose you mentioned the age, the balance, playing a couple of different positions. I'm trying to think of positives. You could see him playing off the right hand side. No, you could. I could see him playing on the right hand side without having the wing back. You know, and I suppose he's, as a fan, you look at his numbers from last season in terms of goals and assists and they're not great. No, that he scored the season before it because it was a great goal, obviously, behind closed doors goal, but he's not so much. I think when he first came into the Bayley team, there was a lot of excitement about him. There was a play. He was like, because he was out of the mould of what Bayley were, you know, you had a very much workman team and he was just that little bit of sprinkler when he came in. I don't really think he's kicked on too much since then. But it's not as a, it might not be as a product of his environment because he's in a, like you said, Bayley, on the show on Dice, very workman like team. He does work hard, that's one thing that I would say about him. But that opportunity to display his talent and having quite been able to thrive because he did become very formal. I think this is the way we do things and he was shoved off onto the left hand side. He hasn't really been able to grow maybe. Maybe that, maybe, you know, if you're looking for, if you're looking for a positive, if you're looking for a reason why maybe the numbers aren't there, that might be the case. His style of playing might have just been, you know, alien from what Bayley wanted and we'll wait and see now. We'll see if we get the benefit of that. You know, him being able to carry the ball and put balls into the box. It does surprise me, he didn't get more assist considering his, you know, his crossing ability and the kind of play he's Bayley have. But then Bayley didn't score loads of goals. So, you know, I think it would be interesting to see how we use him and the style we play and if it does go hand in hand with what he does. As I said, when he first came to that Bayley team, he did really stand out because he was different from the rest. But things maybe have just got away from him a little bit in terms of the way he wants to play. So that would be an interesting thing. I think he's, you know, by all accounts, he's a good character. He works hard, he's down to eight and gets stuck in and all that. So, Frank Lambert trying to bring that kind of mentality into Evan's dressing room. Young players prepared to work hard, come in, train in every day, be on it. Then maybe he's adding in to that and evidently I've kept this relatively quiet having this mood. There's been a lot of noise about other players and McNeill for once. This wasn't, you know, loud. Evan had been able to get the deal done relatively quickly. It's, like you said, it's a young hungry footballer who, Frank Lambert, can integrate into that squad and gives us that balance like you should know the left footer. I've had a death of them, have me in the Evan side. So we saw what Hamish could do on that right hand side as a left footer player. I'm not putting him in that same breath. I just mean the left foot off the right hand side. You know, when they're on it and they come inside, he can cause issues for, very similar to what we see off the right hand side, cause problems when you come in field. Maybe you'll give Evan a little bit of balance off that side or maybe for Frank Lambert because I know Bayne used him sometimes last season in a more central position with a three. So he can't, as an almost like an eight at times, so he can't play there as well. So he gives the squad that option of playing in two or three positions. I know you never want to be that player that can do two or three jobs. You want to hold down one position, but it means that the manager's covered in a few different areas. Yeah, you say that. I mean, that's not in terms of those positions that were all very similar, aren't they? It's just moving along the line as such. So it's not, I don't see that as a massive problem. If you can play central or you can play left or right, then that's good for him. For us in terms of him playing, I don't see that being a massive problem. It's not like shifting from full back to centre back or full back to centre midfield and not holding down a position. I think if you're one of those three positions, I think you're going to play, and I don't think the job is too much different. It's just one along. So it will be interesting, and I say if we play with wing backs and he plays more on the inside right kind of position, cutting on his left foot, then that might be, because that's not, I wouldn't have thought that was typical of what Bayne and Lee did with having a more rigid 4-4-2 system. That wouldn't be more typical of plays cutting inside. So it would be interesting to see how they use them, you know, and what Frank Lampard sees for him. One thing we should do is, because we have mentioned the fact that he had 38 games and got one assist, but there's another counter-argument to that, let's just have a look here. So 38 appearances, one assist, but he did create 47 chances, which is more than any Everton player. I think it's more than most of the Everton players put together. And he was in the top 25 for chance makers in the Premier League last season. That's a good start. He did create opportunities, Bayne, like you should have didn't score many goals, so that could be down to the likes of Wegghurst, missing sitters, or Ashley Marns or whoever. And you would like to think that Dominic Alvaradoon would take some of those chances and others, deli, maybe. I do think that would be the main stat that would have been taken into consideration when they were looking at them. If you've got a centre forward like Dominic Alvaradoon, and you know that if you put balls in the right areas, then he'll immediately find the back of the net. Wherever anyone thinks of Dominic Alvaradoon, he's just six yard box play, he's a centre forward, he's someone who loves header in the ball. If you can put the ball in those areas for him, and you can make that many chances for him, then he will score goals. So, if that happens, and this lad starts finding he's putting the assist in, then he will be worth what we're paying for him. And then you add that to his versatility, then it might end up being a good signing. Right now, he doesn't necessarily look like a good signing because we tend to look at the goals and the assist, and we don't normally look at that kind of thing. I think when you're looking at signing plays, you're looking at dynamic pace and all that. But also I think people will question it just right now because there's other areas that we're still looking at. We haven't added any more goals to the team because he doesn't score goals. We haven't added that number six in the central area that we're all crying out for. We haven't added another striker who gets goals. So that's why it'll be looked on negatively. I think if Everton had got the number six in and Everton had got another striker in, and then he went and got the white machine, people might go, well, all right, it adds to what we've got here. But just right now, and again this might be something that we'll only know at the end of the transfer window, and we're all fist together. And we're all fist together if Everton finished that window with an all-mando brosier as another striker. And a garn or someone else is in the field player or whatever. We might look back on it and go, actually, yeah, it was a decent window that because we got us this and it got us that. And Dwight McNeill might be looked upon as a good sign in that aspect. And especially if he's putting the right deliveries into Dominic Alvalu. We know how good Dominic is if he's given the right ball. We've seen it with Lluwcadeam, we've seen it with Hames, given Guilffy Sigurdtson, given the right service, he will put the ball on the back of the net. And he's done it consistently. It's only last season injuries, you know, scuffle that. And McNeill may be the one to be able to unlock that again, so. Yeah, we're waiting to see. As you said, if he's making that many chances, he's making more chances than Everton plays that last season. And obviously, you know, the fee is going to be, I imagine from what we've heard so far during the summer when we've been going for players. The fee is going to be relatively small up front, you know, and then paving and storming. And hopefully that leaves enough room for, you know, when the other bits coming, or the one sort of big, shiny player that we're after, that we will have enough room to go and get that player. So we'll have to wait. There is a definite wait and see on this one. I can't honestly say to you saying I'm dead excited to have him at Everton, but listen, the manager, Kevin Felwell, identified him, think he's the right profile. Then we'll wait and see, you know, you do all bye-bye signings. Recruitments is the key for Everton. It's been the killer in the last few years. So we'll have to wait and see how it goes along. People should appreciate it when we get behind them. And hopefully it'll be a fantastic signing and we can trip back and go, you know, what a great signing that was. That's what you're hoping for. There you go. So let us know your thoughts in the comments on this signing. Tell us how you feel about it. There you go. Make sure to give this video a like. Subscribe if you haven't already. If you want more great videos, join us over on Toffy TV Premier. The link is in the description. It'll be on the screen in a minute. See you later.