 Welcome to Toffy TV. We have got the exciting news that Adelaide D'Corey has signed for Everton Football Club. We've finally got them. It feels like we've been chasing them for like two years, but that's not just this summer. It feels like we have actually been chasing them for a couple of years, but good sign, really good sign. The Premier League experience has a lot of the qualities I think we've been missing in the last season or so, and I think it's got a lot to offer. Definitely to it's won. I've hoped we could do for a while to be honest, got good physique, getting on a pitch really well. Add goals as well from midfield, which is something that, you know, just last season for instance nine goals across all of Arminfield and Wingers. This lad's got half a dozen of times for Wafford and things. I think it's 17 goals and three seasons for Wafford. We can add that to us for five goals from that central area. It makes a big difference. I've always been impressed with him when he's played against us. Always a physical player. He's always seemed to be all over the pitch. It's got some deficiencies we know he has, but being linked with Liverpool in the past and other teams, Arsenal, teams have been up around the top four as well, so we've been trying to get him for two seasons, really meant big on him last summer, trying to get him in Wafford wouldn't sell. So it's really good, really good that they've managed to get him in this run. Yeah, and I think what he's got is a little bit different when you're saying what we've already got him in field. I think, you know, say in the last season there was a lot of them in field, the whole midfield when you look at the whole four. Very, very similar in how they wanted to play. I think what's good about this guy as well, he's played in 4-4-2s. He knows the system, playing with one other centre midfielder, but I think we can use him if we need to have a three in there. I think if you give him a job to do as well, whether it's a little bit more defensive or whether you want him box to box, I think he can do a little bit of both. It's obviously got that physical presence that we've really struggled with. We look at our midfield, it looks. When you're relying on Andre Gomez to be the physicality in midfield, you know, even though he's a big lad, you're going to struggle. That obviously helps defensively and attack him wise as well, set pieces and things like that. I just think it's a good deal. It's a good deal. Sometimes when you buy players that have gone down with a club, they will have obviously been part of the problem. But saying that, we bought Garni from a relegator team from really bad villaside as well. No one knew what we were getting with him. I think with this guy, I think we all know what we're getting. It's up to him, I think, last season. If you listen to Waffa fans, they'll say that he dropped off a little bit and they'll give you the normal spiel. I don't know whether it's just Everton with the rubber snake or Waffa, but they made up that he sold them. Callo yn siolwch, he will have looked at this player and seen what he's got to offer and knows that it will be an attribute to Everton Football Club. I think one of the things we've looked at is, in the past couple of seasons in particular, brought Andre Gomez in, brought John Philippe Gabarman in, obviously Gabarman has been injured. You're waiting for players to try with the ground running where this lad is primarily proven and has been for a few seasons. Like you said, he's attracted the attention of other clubs, big clubs. We tried to buy, I think we had a £38 million bid for him rejected 12 months ago. We know what we're getting like you say. The big thing for me is that he does get into the box. You know, an army of field players don't do that quite simply. When you've got someone who can get up and down the pitch, you're right it means we can play with two in there, we can play with three in there. It gives you options, but the Premier League proven bit is vital because he can come in, he knows the league. It's just about knowing his position in the team and getting in. He's a player I would suggest you don't have to worry about. He comes in, you get him in that team, you go right off. If you go on, he'll know how to do his job. Like you said, when he's played against Everton for Watford, he's always been harmful. When he's always one who does arrive in the penalty area and you do after that, you know, worry about him. I don't think Everton have got enough of that, certainly last season. If any of army of field is getting near the penalty area, let alone getting anything. Tom Davis got two in the league and one in the cup for us from my field and Gomez didn't score a goal and Guilfee ended up with a cup up, but the penalty late on and Delft didn't get any. So you just look at that, there's no goals in it, this lad can get goals. I think it's well of you, you've got a player who can cover the ground as well. I think that really helps. Well, how many times do we see army of field chasing last season? This is from Watford this season, oh, last season rather. Tackles in the middle third, 0.85, that's on what ours are at the moment, so okay, you might look at that. But again, he wasn't the ball winner in the midfield at Watford, he had capoeira with him. Pressing in the midfield third at the middle third, 13.24, that's a lot of pressing action. So again, someone who will go and harry the ball. For just over four interceptions paying 90, 5.35 progressive passes paying 90 and 1.76 progressive runs paying 90, which again was way above, way above what we had had from army of field players. So I think the big thing for me going into this summer and particularly it was just, it was in your face, post lockdown, watching the games, the midfield was so unfit for papers. Good footballers. But no, you know, in a Premier League, you have to have athletes. It's a build in a team. Especially in a two as well. I think when we played in a three, we looked a little bit better, but because I think you spread them what those three players do, and I think what the likes of he can do is. His stats aren't. I don't think his stats are amazing in any one particular column. But I think if he's got good stats in everything so he can play in a two and can do, and you know the partner next to him can do similar, then that's what builds a better side. You know, and I think that our problem is being our midfielders don't suit playing 4-4-2 variation of 4-4-2. So obviously the manager's took steps and has made decisions. You've got to have a physical stat here as well. You come up against top teams, a lot of them in midfields are big. You know, it stood out to me a couple of seasons ago when United came to go listening. You know, the Pogba was in there and he was like an athlete. He was brilliant. He just looked bigger than us. Yeah, and he can get away. You know, protect the ball, hold your off and get away. The one thing I'm very critical of how often Tom Davis is on the deck. You know, how many times he doesn't really seem to have the ability to win the ball and get away from someone. He always finds himself on the deck. He really hasn't progressed. You know, Andre Gomez can protect the ball really well, but then he'll choose to find a pass rather than stride on. And Guilphysig doesn't seem to have the legs to stride on. Again, he's another one. We've not had a player since Ross Barkley. We've seen very early on Andre Gomez and a little bit of it, but it just seemed to dry up. But we haven't a player since Ross Barkley who will get the ball and transition up the pitch with it. And I think that's a big, something we really need. And I think we've seen, you know, we've seen bits of this play do that. Drive on with the ball, take the ball, commit people. O break while someone else has got the ball. But that's what I'm saying. How many times do we see last season? Everton's defence just retreat and retreat because the opposition were coming at us as well. You know, and I think that's the other way a player like that is a player can see the danger and can get back and just cover the ground. Let me ask you just about Gomez, because you just mentioned not wanting to drive forward. When we've seen him driving forward, who did he have with him? Garner. That is best he could get back. Maybe in Gomez, I don't know. But maybe in Gomez, he's thinking, I can't go there because I haven't got the... I'm not quick enough to get back. And the person who's next to me isn't quick enough to get back at it. And maybe that's hindered him from doing it. So people like the corey come in and can alter the way, totally the way you play in it. Can be these kind of signings that, for me, this is what I really want today because of the physicality, be because of the mobility and see because of the goals. The type of player that people won't be clamoring to go out and get his name on shits and all of that stuff, but it can be the kind of player who transforms your team because he can do two or three things that you haven't been able to do. And we've got some good plays in that side. You put good plays in with them, the team can grow together. Put plays in them and we can actually do the job the manager wants. And I think that's a big part of it. That midfield, I have pretty much three plays. You do very similar jobs. I can't do the big job which is putting tackles in and transition with the ball, like we've said. And we've got also, again, this kind of sign and take the heat off John Fligg Obama. He can make sure this time that he comes back and he's ready to go and then if you put him into that mix another big lad, six, four, three or four another big lad who can get about the pitch then all of a sudden you've got big options then. You've got an athletic team that can compete and come way hard and has got the fitness and they've got the levels to compete and make it hard for the opposition which is what it's all about. I honestly think it's a good sign. I think it's a good sign. We'll wait and see how it helps team the team. Hopefully it does. Let us know your thoughts in the comments on this one. We'll have much more on the signing as well. I'm sure we'll get Andy into it. Do a few stats on the plays. Some comparisons with similar plays in the Premier League that you know what it's all about. There you go. Thanks for watching. Make sure you give this video a like. Subscribe if you haven't already and if you want more great videos live. Live reactions to signings as well. Get over and join us on page and the link is in the description. See you later.