 Welcome to Toffy TV, joined by Andy. But before we start, this video is brought to you in association with the Athletic. You can get a 7 day free trial at the moment with the Athletic and then 50% off your yearly subscription. Some great writers on their Everton only content as well at times from Paddy Boyland and Greg O'Keefe. Click the link in the description to sign up and experience your first trial with the Athletic. Andy, Everton linked very heavily. Very, very heavily on a daily basis. Exactly, with Lyle Senterbach, Gabrielle Dos Santos, Magel Heliles. You're going to call him Gabrielle. We're going to call him Gabrielle for ease. I think, and quicker really. So we thought we'd have a chat about him because it is, this is something that's built as in it was first mooted in January and then it seems like each week the story gets a bit more meat on it and over the weekend everybody has run the story that Everton are very close to agreeing to deal with him. We had a quote from Nicola Shearer who said Everton are in talks to sign Lyle Defender, Gabrielle Magel Heliles. The Toffies have reportedly offered the Brazilian player a contract until 2025. So, Gabrielle, what are your thoughts on what you know about him to start? So, he didn't really play much last year because he had obviously Samarro who's gone to Italy now and Jose Fontz, obviously the captain. So they've had Dents who's the main centre of partnership last year, he's obviously something young. So, this is his first big season but he's now probably the best defender by some ways. He really helps Fontz out because Fontz is not as quick as he used to be. So, he does a lot of the work in the defence and he's really stood out really. You watch them play defence, he's the best defender, he's good on the ball, strong, quick. He can do everything he wants as a defender as a modern defender in terms of as well as obviously being a good defender and winning the ball back. He also can obviously carry the ball into the field but also pass through the lines to break down those banks of force. So, yeah, he's a really good player to be fair. So, a lot of the people who come out of Brazil went off to play for Dynamo Zagreb as well didn't even got some experience with European football later and then obviously gone over to France with Lyle. So, he's only 22, Everton of Wanted. I think Alon Antialotti highlighted it when he came in that they wanted a left-footed centre back. I'm not sure whether Marco Silva had the plan for that because he wanted Kate Zuma who was a right-footed centre back but I know that when Antialotti come in, that was one of the things that Marcel Brann spoke about. Yeah, it's key for Balanchem. Having a left-footed centre back. Particularly if you're going to try to play the ball off on the back rather than giving it to a right-footed who's either got a shifter inside or just help it on. Which is more dangerous when you're obviously getting pressed now. Of course, it gives you that balance. So, he's someone certainly who fits that kind of bill. He's 643, quite quick. So, he's got every... Like you said, he's a modern day centre back. He's got everything that you would want, great age as well. And I think the other thing, obviously Marcel Brann is well aware of him being a South American player anyway. He knows that market really well. But I think the other thing as well is people like Bernadr Everton and Richard Ellison and you've got Jeri Mina, who's something we will actually look at next to Gabrielle in a bit. So, with that Portuguese, you know... It's easy for him to come into the club and fit into the culture now. Obviously, there's already Portuguese-speaking players there. He's not quite to the national team level yet, but he will be eventually, I think, he's that good. So, it helps him, obviously, in attracting the club. He's a club of colour and slots, of course, so he'll attract into the club as well. And what we've talked about before, as well as buying from clubs like Leo, who are really good developer of talent, and that's the type of club where they're playing regular European football and they're playing the Champions League this year. Buying players from them clubs are at a higher caliber of talent, really. So, it's a big, good move. We can pull it off, really. He played against Chelsea, didn't he, I think? He did, yeah. He acts as well on the group stage, yeah. He's had some good experience already as a young defender. He's coming into our club, I think, will make a big difference. And French League, and I mean, you've had this conversation quite regularly, is that it's quite close to the Premier League now in terms of the physicality side. Yeah, it is. It's one to translate from, yeah. Don't be wrong. It's not a great, you know, the best league of all top five leagues. Obviously, there's more talent in, let's say, Spain, but it's called the League of Talents for a reason. A lot of the talent that young players go to play in France, it's a great entry league to come to Europe if you're a South American or obviously Asian or African players. Come into them in France playing those leagues and they really develop because they play from such young ages when the Premier League's much harder to break into your first team young. So, in Gabriel's case, he's come over to France, and he started playing well as well in the season. So, yeah, it's a good move for us. So, yeah, I think in terms of him, I think we needed a left-footed centre back. He fits that bill. We need someone who can play it off from the back. He fits that bill as well. And I think Carlos, obviously, I'm going to guess Carlos and I'm going to look at him as well. I think we've been scouting since about September, October at the time. So, yeah, it's a really good sign. Yeah, I think, again, the physicality of him, I think, is an important thing because obviously we've got Yeddy Meane, who's a big lad, you know, stopper, you know, really is, and he's a big stopper. And they've got Mason Holgate, who is a little bit more like Gabriel in that he's a bit sleighter, but he's bigger anyway. So, that's what I say to Scarab Mas. He's that in between, between Meane and Holgate. So, if you wanted to go big, you could play Meane and Gabriel. If you wanted to go a bit quicker, if you're playing against a Vardy, for example, you'd have Gabriel on Holgate. Nice mix. So, yeah, for Leo, he plays as the cover defender because obviously, Ozi Ffont's much slower and he sometimes has to work at two men to be fair. But I watched the Nans game for Leo this morning on the Olympic Lea Mergate, a Leone game. He was excellent. He was really good on the ball, stopping everything. You know, he really tracks run as well, good. Senses danger there. He gets himself positions himself well. And he's got great recovery pace as well, which is key. Because no defender's perfect, but he's making those right decisions. Get back into position, get back that structure back. So he is really good at that as well. It is that recovery thing. It's something that Everton probably have missed this season. Certainly it missed it until Mason Holgate got in. Holgate obviously is a bit quicker than Meane and much quicker than Michael Keane. And I think if Everton do sign Gabriel, I think personally that probably spells the end of Michael Keane. Based on his contract situation. It's at the stage where you sell or renew. Because if you leave it to the last year, you're losing a lot of value out of the tears. So, you know, barely Newcastle, Crystal Palace, then Tyver teams, you're fitting great there. Because they're so deep. We're looking at them as well. I think that's a bit much. I'd say them three teams where they are playing a bit deeper with suit Michael Keane. He isn't a bad centre back. He's just a bit flawed. If you put them in the right system, he can be good for teams. It's just that Everton are not that team really. And a 27 with two years left. Yeah, I think you look to cash out now. If you got round what we paid for them, it would be a good deal for Everton. Or round, and you replaced them with that man there. It'd be great. Again, it's at the pace of this fellow, which makes him all the more an attractive prospect. And like you said, a player you can play in the three as well at the back. Or he's even played left back as well. You can't do that. He's really good at comfortable on the ball. Jolian Lescotti and play both. That's awkward, but yeah. Not as, yeah. I always found out Jolian. He was a bit robotic in his movement. And sometimes in terms of athletics, as we struggle with this very fluid movement, it turns well to both sides. Pass with his right foot. He's not all left footers, which obviously makes it harder to close down and press. So that's key as well. You're not buying something that's right for balance. You can't actually use it as well. Let's have a look at a couple of those things. Sorry, it's more for laptops, but this is what we use for market insights. This is a data profile. We break it down to three parts to make it easier to fit on the screen. But this is a creative attack and play. So the gauge is based on what the percentile in the said league in his position. So for centre backs in the league one, this is where he ranks. So I wouldn't take too much. This is more of a creative attack and play. The one through passes. He tries a lot of through passes, which is key now, because as ever you can get better. You're going to see a lot more banks of four and a lot more low block against them. And we've struggled when teams have done that against us. Having to defend, you can step into midfield, cause teams to try and press them and break the structure is key. And he will help that massively. Like me, Snoggy. I was going to say, we've seen the evidence of that with Mason. When he gets it right, he can take four players off the game. Obviously there's risk and reward, but sometimes it'll be cut out and then you've got to go real away. Again, his pace will help with that, because if it's him giving the ball away. That's what the one for modern players. If you look at Liverpool, Fan Dijk plays those lovely diagonal balls out of the full backs. I watched Gabriel do that this morning. You need that type of players, because it can help. Instead of people don't like playing out of the backs sometimes, you just get rid of it and all that. But it sort of draws the people out, and creates space for your attacker. So it's key to have people who can play football at the back. It's comfortable on the ball as well, isn't it? So it's numbers there. And then into this bit, the passing. So this is very important. So progressive passes are passes that sort of get teams up the pitch. They can be at 10 metres, 15 metres, 20 metres, depending on where you're actually playing the pass. Well, they're very important now at centre marks. If you look at a lot of the signings, that's teams like Atalans who are really smart, make other top teams. They look at defenders. You can break the lines. You can get teams up the pitch. You can start transitions quickly and early. And this is what you can do really well. The progressive runs means he carries the ball good distances. So that's another thing. When you're carrying the ball into midfields, you're causing obviously people to come out and try and press you. As I say, it opens gaps between the lines for people like Bernard, Wobie, whoever plays right wing next season to exploit. Yeah, I mean, he's got some great numbers there. Yeah, so long passing, okay, not the best. But he makes a lot of passes, so he's very comfortable on the ball. He passes it forward well. It depends on risk and role. As you can see, he's making a lot of, as the previous screen as well. He makes a lot of forward passes, so obviously your percentage is going to suffer the more risk you take. I watched him this morning. He's a very good passer. In terms of pass length, that's fine. Not too long. He's not playing long balls consistently. So these are all good numbers for someone at somewhere as age 22 in a good league as well. Average long pass, just 43 metres, which is again those raking passes, which we see obviously the likes of van Dijk playing. If you're playing two-up fronts, basically you have Dominic Carver-Lewin taking two defenders, and you have Charleson, he's a bigger sort of winger, sent it forward on a small full back, then you can have those man advantages, which is key. Very good passing accuracy as well, up there around 86, just under 87 per cent. Average passes per game, just under 58 passes per game. So he's always on the ball. I watched Leo, he built from the back. He's the focal point, really a lot of the balls go into him. Start the moves, which is key. 12, just under 12 progressive passes as well. So this is defensive numbers. Aerial Jules, he's one of the best, one of the most in the league, and says he wins 63 per cent. Now people go on, he only just wins over half. The problem with data companies is they include attacking headers in certain effects of the percentage. So that's actually really high, because a lot of people, if you include attacking headers, not many connect off corners, he's actually doing really well there. In terms of defensive Jules, 69 per cent, that's where you want to be, around 70 per cent. That's really a comfort defender. These top defenders, a couple of years older, more in the peak, he'll average more to 74, 75. So he's writing that good so. This is important here, a peer-adjusted interception. So what data companies do now is instead of just going, for example, knowledge of bottom league, and obviously have the least possession, but they won't use knowledge. Well, say Crystal Palace, for example, a low block team, they don't have a lot of possession. So teams obviously attack them more against them, which means they're players, like last season, but they'll have more tackles, more interceptions. So what they do to balance that out is the possession adjuster to make it all even. So once they adjust that out, he'll have a lot of the ball, compared to everyone around the league, he makes a lot of interceptions. Still over six interceptions. Yeah, really good anticipation. He cuts off passing lanes really well. Well, we used to love Guy, and he used to have about seven in it, a game, so obviously, he's had to go over six again. That's good reading of the game, isn't it? Exactly. I wouldn't look at the tackle numbers here, because they don't really register normal tackles. On Ysgauwt, it's only slain tackles, but as I say, he still completes it over half a slain tackles. Shots blocked again, one every two games. A different type of league. Leal don't really have many teams who attack them maybe by a PSG, so that's why that number's reason we're low. But overall, in terms of defensive numbers, they're really good. Doesn't give away a lot of fouls, which is key as well. He's quite a disciplined defender. As I watched him this morning, he's not foul and boring. He tries to nick a lot after the look of it. He can do both. He's the finest type of defender where he's trying to nick the ball off a toe, or he can use his strength and power to move them off the board. He's a clever player. He's a clever player. Fairly. A fair challenge, but his shoulder is a bit stronger. He's a clever player, yeah. Quick, so, I mean, he's trying to be really good. This is compared with Yeri Miener. We've used Yeri Miener on this, because Yeri Miener's been our best defender this season. Making all games, don't get me wrong, has improved massively and is great. But overall, Yeri slayed the majority of the season, as being quite consistent. So, you know, we could have put Michael Keenan and waited it, but we haven't. We've gone with Yeri Miener because he's our best. So, how does this compare? So, this is the creative attack on play, which for, you know, centre-back's not really a big issue. But if you look at it here, Gabriel's getting more involved in the final third in terms of making deep completions, deep completions of passes made to positions within 20 yards. So, the goal, he needs more successful passes to the penalty area. Again, Lila are much better side in their league. So, obviously, that sort of adjusts to that. Obviously, in terms of key passes, Yeri Miener, obviously, is good from corners. So, obviously, he's got a lot of knockdowns. The dribbles, in terms of, Yeri Miener doesn't dribble the ball a lot. No, no. Whereas Gabriel does like to carry the ball into the field. So, that is a difference between the two. This is interesting, all the smart passes. So, that's passes into space, yeah? From Yeri Miener. So, Yeri Miener do well, yeah. Really well. And smart pass in accuracy as well. So, that, I mean, that's good for people who look at Yeri Miener and go, well, we can't play. He's not bad on the ball. The more he'll develop that. And if he's playing with someone who's comfortable and I'm not advocating that Mason Holgate goes off the team. It's whoever's best player, yeah. Whoever forces the way in it. It's all about creating a squad that ever, and that players have to wait to be in the team. No-one's comfortable, yeah. And no-one's comfortable. And also you can play different ways, tactically, as I say. If you play a Vard, you might think, Yeri Miener's not really suit to this game. I'll play Gabriel on the ball. You've seen it when he's played, Michael Keane, for the physicality. You need to have those options in a squad. You know Liverpool Gomez has been very good for 18 months. John Matty plays over him a lot of the time. So it depends on who you play. Body might bring love for an insult. Yeah, exactly. You've got to use your players and you need that different type. And that's why we want to lift further for that balance. I mean, that, theoretically, just looking at that would mean that day will be a good partnership in the attacking creative side because they can both do things that the other one can. So that was quite interesting. Defensive performance is the next one. So Gabriel is basically trumped me in a lot of this. Aerial Jews is the number of aerial Jews you can test. So the Premier League, I'd say, is a bit more, you know, a lot more vascular passes, so a lot more heathen. So Gabriel doesn't face as many as me and Gabriel wins more of his Jews. So he wins much more but the higher percentage of his Jews. He's more active defending. That surprised me that because I would say the one thing. Because, yeah, he doesn't get beaten very often. So he was doing nine on one four and Gabriel did seven on one four percentage. So it can work out that way. Of course, yeah. It's iron tapers and, of course, Gabriel blocks. This is one I'm surprised that Gabriel blocks more shots than Jeremy. Now Jeremy, there's quite a physical defender who gets in front of the ball. So that's something to consider. Gabriel is a much more busy defender. It takes a lot more defensive. He wins more defensive jewels. As I say, look at the difference in intercepting. That's reading the games. I think Jeremy, I think this is quite harsh because the Premier League is a slightly bigger better standard. So it's hard to mirror stats over the data over from one league to the other. You can see what Gabriel is. He's quite, he anticipates really well. He cuts those passes. He cuts the angles off of passes as well, really well. I mean, all we're doing is we're just trying to build a profile and we'll just say, look, this is the data that's available. Exactly, again. This falls again, though. Jeremy, you know, whether it's falls and any falls. So not only is he having a lot more interceptions, hardly committing any falls. The key with Gabriel as well is what, this is where Michael Keane struggled in the past because we used Keane as an example as defending in space, and we struggled to play a high line on Michael Keane. And we want to play a high line having Holgi Gabriel mean is not too bad on the high line either. It enables you then to play a higher up the pitch because you don't mind the mean one on one with a quick play in space because he's got no problem in defending those quick players in space. So that's key. With meaner as well, if you played him with a Gabriel and with Holgi as you see it, it allows him to be the stopper when Michael Keane and meaner played him. They couldn't really work out the roles well. And I think that's one of the roles and it's quick enough so you can have him with Holgi or with meaner. So the nice balance on the squad there. And this final one. So you're passing, yeah. So meaner makes more passes and more passing accuracy, which is not really, it's quite negligible because obviously just seeing Gabriel is averaging 86% as passers mean. It's obviously averaged a bit more in there in terms of 90%. But as you can see here, meaner is making a lot less risky passes than Gabriel. He makes quite a high number of risky forward passes. So the difference is that he's making more passes because he makes a lot more. So it's just how you're in tables. What we're seeing here is meaner is carrying the ball much more into the field. There's a lot more space over for meaner. I think with Gabriel he could exploit that space as well. So again, you've got to, the data. The style of the teams is different. Exactly. It's how you're in tables. I think when I looked at Gabriel's data, if I had to make a shortlist for Evan before and he was interested, he would have been on the list and it shows me a good light that he would be a really good addition for the side. Yeah. I mean, you know, saying there, Evan, an afternoon, we're just reacting to, you know, what is... It's very heavily. Yeah. Normally when the links are so strong, obviously things are kicking on because nobody's come out and gone. Actually no, that isn't the case. Everyone's running with it. Normally when everyone... Leo would have stamped it out. Leo would have stamped it out. Leo would have stamped it out when your opinions are on the list of getting involved and Nicolo Shea, the data that we've seen, does a lot of transfer stuff. Okay, sometimes he has misses, but he does get a lot of hits as well. I'm just seeing journalists in this country saying Evan, the lead in the chase, Evan and this, Evan and that. So there is quite clearly stuff going on and like you just said there, the key thing with this is sometimes you see links and you go... It makes sense. It doesn't make any sense at all and it's just, you know, like a Napoli player and Evan are paying 60 million for Alan, who's 29 or 30 and you're like, I don't think we are, but this one does make sense. It does in his right age and, you know, what I would say to people is he's very good now, but he could be even better, which is the key, is why I've probably signed him because we need players who could come in now and add to the quality of the squad, but also in a couple of years' time he could be a really top defender. That's key, I think, rather than signing Cullaball who don't me wrong is a fantastic defender, but he's 29 and costs a lot of money. Evan are thinking Why don't we bring in Gabriel? You know, for the long term and for Evan as a club it's a better investment. And I think if we sign them, I think that's the right intent that we've got to sign them done early. You can announce it saying in the next month or two if that was going to happen. That would be fantastic. I think because the fans have often worried that we're signing players too late in the window. This is obviously a nice marker on the car and the new regime on the car. I've signed a centre back. This is our centre back I've signed and it's getting done early. I think, like you said, the fact that Marcel Brands is getting more interest in the club with these are the younger players who he wants to bring in. This is what we need to do. Sell on value and everything else. I know people don't like to hear sell on value, but I think every club even Liverpool considers sell on value because if they sign a player and he's not really right for their team but he retains a lot of his value rather than being a 29-year-old, it doesn't. It benefits them as a club because they can then sell them on. Obviously we know that Liverpool always get more money but whatever. But even Manchester City, they won't Manchester's never sell players, but normal clubs anyway. It's better to think that long term strategy rather than just that's fill a team with eight. He'll just go for a one season hit. You need to think a bit longer term now. I think with the age of the squad and as you say about the Portuguese culture he fits in perfectly with that. I think Karl will improve him as well. So that's the key. There you go. Thanks to Andy there for the interpretation of the data. Let us know what you think in the comments section below. Will Gabrielle be a good sign in forever? Obviously heavily linked certainly for the last six weeks with him but those links are getting stronger and seem to have a bit more meat on the bones now in terms of what's happening between Everton and Leall. So we could have a very good defender on our hands if Everton can pull the deal off. Let us know if you think it will be a good deal. Make sure you check out that offer from the athletic remember. It's a seven day free trial. You get 50% off your yearly subscription. Check the link below. Go and have a look at it. There's lots of excellent articles on. Make sure you try it out. 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