 Welcome to Toffy TV. It is that time again. The season is upon us and it's time to do our season preview. Can we just have a manager for one season please? Can we just have a manager for one season? It doesn't see much of us, does it? It doesn't, does it? It doesn't. It's been an issue. It's been an issue. You're telling me for a while. The last one, we've only had Carlos, haven't we? He's completed the season. Carlos completed the season since Marko went. That's terrible. That's poor in a dairy. I think he'll survive the season. The reason I say that is, Sean Dice is the man you get when you sack someone. So who do you get if you sack Sean Dice? He comes knocking now. He does the knocking now. So I think he'll be alright. You know what? It's so difficult now to do these season previews with the window still open. It's with Evan and the position we're in. We're not capable of getting our players in early. Obviously as we record them, we've got Dan Juminin and we've got Ashley Younging as we record. With one maybe coming in. Well, a bit more than maybe in Cymru. So it is difficult, isn't it? While it's still that window open and another three weeks of it being open. Yeah, it's hard to do any kind of forecast on because like you said, you know, Ashley Young arrived on a free. Dan Jumin arrived on loan. And you should have Cymru is imminent as in terms of being announced. But it's again, it's reiterated it many times on a young player, isn't it? So it's difficult to predict because I still expect Evan to shine at least three players on top of Timothy. So it's hard, it'll be different. If the season, the window slammed shut now, I'd be worried I think. Because I'd be looking again and going so agandling again at the top end of the pitch. But I do expect Evan to see another two forwards on top of Ysgrif Timothy. Yeah, it's Groundhog Day, isn't it? In terms of where we are as a squad, we seem to have all the same issues as basically we had last season. At this stage, you know, Dominic Cavallun didn't get in. He got injured like around this time last year, didn't he? Obviously, we had to wait for the first five games to pass, wasn't it? Till Mopi coming and still that never really rectified the problem. So it feels like we've got a lot of the same problems because we still don't think anyone of us trust Dominic Cavallun's body to stay fit. Or certainly as fit as we'd like are starting number nine to be. I think we're all just a little bit, as you said, worried now. The squad is definitely not big enough. It's lost some mass from last year. Cody, Mina, two players who obviously both played in the last game of the season against Bournemouth. The likes of Tom Davis, whether you like them or you're not. Squad player, all the managers we've had lied on to come on in games. So the end of games, starting games, being part of that squad. We just need a few more of them, don't we? A few more squad fillers to come in. We need the right winger as well. But just those players to come in and just boost that squad when it's going to be. Because we're going to get suspensions, we're going to get injuries, the African nations in January. There's going to be times when we're certainly not going to have that strongest team. I mean, ti ar y brant weithbach, and obviously he's highly dated, isn't he? Sensor back, we didn't have him last year, so he's come back into the squad. But yeah, we've lost Connor Cody and Yeri Mina from the centre back positions. All right, Mina wasn't available at some last year, so it's not as if he was at a start at the centre back, but we know I love Yeri when he was fit, he thought he was our best defender, but he's gone. You wish him well. So we have, but I also think we need a couple of starters as well. I get what you're saying in terms of the squad and it's right, but we need a couple of starters. We haven't had the right winger for ever. I think probably Tierra Dellafai, he was the last right actual out and out right winger we had. We need the right winger. We've got Dominic Alvarloom fit. If he stays fit, if Dominic Alvarloom played 20 plus games for evidence season, I think he'd score eight goals. I really do, and therefore that would be a big help. We had a forward last year. Dominic Alvarloom got two, didn't he? And Malpai got one. It's a shock and beast like this. Absolutely abysmal. I understand when people go ever and they'll be struggling again because look at them last season, but I think last season was an anomaly for not having a forward that could score a goal. I really do Neil. Malpai come to Everton having scored eight and nine for Brighton in the Premier League and he come and got one. He played the whole season basically, so if he could stay fit I think we'd be alright, but we can't do that if again because it was if last year. So we do need, on use of Chimity might become a useful squad player. Looks like he's got the tools six or four, mobile, good touch but he's raw. He's a kid. So we still need that one in between. Like I said, the right winger and then you can start talking about maybe another experience centre back Trevor Tialab has been mentioned. People like that, he's a bit different but there's those areas that need dooming as well and we have we've got to get Dwight McNeill fit again. He looks like he's missing the start of the season. So there might be a bit more of a balance to the squad but they're not going to be big on numbers and that's why I still expect a few, a couple later on maybe loans. I think obviously creativity is a huge problem because we're not, I don't think we're creating a lot of clean cut chances anyway. Now I was looking back seeing a video, doing their hands there of Dominic Alvin Loone's goals during the lockdown season and the amount of times the ball is squared across the six yard box or the crosses that were coming in were perfect for them or things put in front of them, cutting through the middle and we just don't seem to create those chances we don't build the play up enough around around the area and we don't have the wide men who seem to play like that so obviously that's an issue. I think for me coming into this season there's a little bit more at least we know what we're getting this season whereas I think last season there was almost like an optimism because it was like Frank Lampard's going to get all the reins now and he's going to do things the way he wants to do it we didn't have the players I think there's a bit more realism this season who we are, how we're going to play tactics are obviously in terms of stopping the opposition and tactics about who we are and how we're going to score goals are going to be a lot more clearer for the players so I think from that point of view I can understand what last year where people wrote us off maybe us ourselves we didn't do that but I think this season people are writing us off straight away and I think they're not looking at that, they're not seeing that this is a team that's going to know every week what its job is to it's going to know exactly how it needs to play, how it needs to defend and how to use set pieces and the wide men to create chances to score goals I don't think that was there last year it was a little bit too complicated for the players we had or the players we didn't have for most of the season so I think that gives me a little bit of hope that it's going to be this team won't have to change it's not going to change from the back end of last season the way we play whereas again Frank Lampard when he came in from the back end of the season it was all about staying up it was all about playing a certain type of way sometimes playing with 5 at the back and it was very much it was very much like war for Paul it was about digging out the points whereas I think these players now the way we play the back end that's shown Dacia's way of playing it ain't going to change it ain't going to be suddenly going out from the back all the time and suddenly being completely different this is the way shown Dacia does things and I think that's simplicity that continuity is really going to help us because it's just about building on that now and saying we're going to hopefully get better plays in some of those positions hopefully ever centre forward that's fit and if he's not fit we're hopefully going to have a back hole for him and keep doing what we're doing and making it hard you don't want to sit there going the football's going to be horrible and we're going to be the new billion all this kind of thing but if that's what it takes to dig us out of this hole we're in as a football club over the course of the season and that's just the way it's going to be yeah the MO very much has get to the new stadium as a Premier League and now a lot of things will improve at the new stadium I think a lot of people's hopes are for the new stadium so this next season is a case of right we know at some stage next season that we believe at some stage next season for being ultra cautious that everything will move into the new stadium it's got to be the Premier League club that does it and you start at a point very much like what David Moyes used to say is 40 points and that'll be a moment great season the last couple but your first thing is avoid delegation that's your first thing but I think I know why some people are worried and when you look at us like I said of the window shut today I would be thinking this is all on a wing and a prayer again and I don't think it'll be left to that I hope it isn't left to that and I think if we get what we want in and the over after then I think we'll be okay but I think we do do it from a strategy this time the manager has a way of playing and the players seem to understand it we've seen when he come in we've got results at times when we needed it I think he looked a little bit lost when Decore went off the side last season so but I'd expect us to get more goals this year because I think more attack on players will come in I think defensively we were okay last year the numbers suggest that as well and midfield I think we're alright I think we're quite strong actually in my field I think we've got quite a difference type of four and if you include a woby that can play central five in this I think midfield we're alright I think at times you can have a strong midfield it is the final third that is to worry but having said all that like you just said set pieces, good organisation a good level of fitness to start these functional things that people sometimes take for granted are what keep teams comfortable in the Premier League the teams that have make you durable make you able to grind out results make you able to gather points of everything do you go out and shine another forward a quick winger and maybe another you know people then start looking and go actually you know what we're going to be solid and we've got that pace in the final third we can cause a lot of teams problems I think it will be a lot of tight games this season and I think there will be a lot of nervous games or the close games I don't think the added on time is going to be very we're going to be very helpful and I don't think we're going to be blowing teams away no no that's what I'm saying it's going to be that those that dominated the end of the games are going to be they're going to be horrible there imagine but I think what we need to do is we need like a front three or a front you know four players coming into the team we need like three players to be getting seven eight goals each don't you where it's obviously gone from being like like McNeill having seven goals the Mardi Gray having four in the Premier League those are penalties and then as you mentioned Don getting two and Mopay having Gary Meena got two bought against Wolff and became well that's the thing though isn't it it's having your striker having seven or eight and these are not even big numbers are they you know what I mean your two wide men getting seven or eight and then everyone else just pitching in with goals and if you've got that you know forever and I think it's about scoring an extra 15 goals or so which could mean an extra 10 points and the extra 10 points get you comfortable and that's what we're looking that one's asking for anything like your opinion runs or suddenly you know we've got a 25 goals we are asking for it but that's here isn't it it's just asking for a little bit more comfort and you know when you look at the home record from last season when you look at the away record you just think if both of those things could be just improved anyway it just should because we're ever in football club and our home record has always been the bedrock of what we've been based on you know so another way record if that just gets I mean to be fair to dice is a way record towards the end of the season wasn't bad at all you know the draws were in there you know there was a win in there and you know scoring goals away from home as well there was a never saved attitude that we saw at Wolff's Brighton yeah exactly so so we can up the away record and as I said you're not talking about like huge two extra away wins and three extra home wins and you're comfortable it'd be nice to beat the promoter teams you know I was fine that would help you know we're generally awful against the promoter teams you know when other teams seem to swat them so you know yeah it's not listening people like I said there's a lot of people who were nervous and there's a lot of people who were worried and the last two seasons will have done that fine no problem with that what we're saying is it's not huge jumps no no it's just scraping the odd wins on that at home and like you said even in times gone by when we have been crap we've managed to have an all right home record and that's where we have to go from like you say hard work and structure and we certainly can have a period of time the last two seasons we've had a period of time between like October I mean obviously last year because there was a big break but October to like January where you're like winning one game one game in 14 we won in the last two seasons but it's just embarrassing if you had like two or three four wins in that it shouldn't be hard then you are finishing comfortable you are finishing being lovely to have like a period where you you know it's very easy to say you could go like six unbeaten or something but you're actually winning three games and we were going six unbeaten last year but we didn't win one game so you've got to get those wins and all the teams showed that last season it's great not losing games but you've got to win games because that's actually what gets you up the league teams can lose more than you but you just don't put no wins together and that's what gets you and maybe that's where because obviously when that was in charge of being that's what actually cost him when he got relegated that season when he got sacked he didn't actually lose loads of games but he was drawing loads of games and obviously that was what took them in there and took them down so yeah as I said that home record if that can improve the away record can improve a little bit then but it all comes from goals and it all comes back to that getting goals getting goals as a team everyone's shipping in it's great for the window the thing I will say before we finish is he knows the job and he knows he has the understanding of how to win games of football in this league and they won't be the most exciting games I don't think it was that bad under him last season even a bad sign some games maybe didn't play well we never got a chance for it to become boring because there's too much on it you never get that chance to go this is crap this because you're just like there's too much at stake and it might be this is our medicine for making terrible mistakes we have got to a position from a few years ago where we were chasing gore and thinking we were going the other way to now the reality is we're trying to stop going the other way and we need to to flatline almost and go right we're gonna be not totally flatline be nice and steady and go right from here a building blocks and we'll try to add on to it and that's where we are three more wins than what we got last season we'd be comfortably safe six more wins would be nice that would be lovely you've got goals in them you make your team better you give yourself the opportunity to win games of football shoot more as well by the way shoot more and you might score five goals he's got more ability than the gore so the gore got five or six so we should be able to get them numbers as well and then if he's adding them and others like you said centre back should be scoring more then you can share the goals around we will be, we will have a better season we have the last two but it's all ips and buts at the moment I've got a feel I'm gonna be dead nice to our place this season I've got a feel and just know it I didn't just take your positive approach I'm just gonna be dead nice to them I'm just gonna be like fair point you score goals, that's all I'm gonna do today you win at your best but I've got faith you'll be better next week and if you do that, who knows we might have an unbelievable win who knows, who knows let us know your thoughts in the comments about the coming season are you optimistic are you worried till that window closes because of course that is the major thing it is all about when that window closes what we're getting before it we can sit here and talk about the season but till that window closes it's still all up in the air little bit isn't it so we get that squad sorted so let us know your thoughts in there don't forget to give this video a like subscribe if you haven't already want more great videos daily live videos join us on toffy tv premiere the link is in the description and the QR code