 Welcome to Toffy TV, we are continuing our season review, Baz and Andy the Pave have already looked at the season overall, then they looked at the defence, so now we're going to look at the midfield. Listen it isn't going to be as statistically as appliance as when Andy was doing it. Baz will do a good job, Baz will do a very good job. I'm just here to just keep this seat warm, suppose. You're not here to give that the eyes for you, we always say, we always try to start saying it's the eyes and the stats, so we'll do the both. I'm not analytical, no? To be honest I've been very impressed by you've started, I like this. You're throwing the bits into the box. Listen, I was the first person to watch moneyball, let's have it right, let's have it right. I was telling you for ages, watch moneyball and you've picked up the gaunt and you've took it. Midfield is, it's the black hole, isn't it? It's the black hole of the football club, it really is, it's the part that really needs to be worked upon and it's the place where money has been just spunked up the wall, let's be honest, it's been absolutely wasted in that midfield and it's a major problem. So it's a strange one because obviously we've had money and we've bought, essentially we've probably bought decent footballers, good footballers, but they've all been, well it seems like on the outside looking in, they've all been bought without understanding how they all fit together and that, when people just say we've bought crap, I don't think we've bought crap but we've bought players that don't complement each other. And therefore it hasn't worked and therefore when you look at it now, you're looking at that midfield and going, the amount of money we've wasted, if only we had that money now for Carl, I want you lot to spend or whatever. That's been the issue, decent players but with no clue how to piece them together, that seems like anyway. No, I completely agree, it's just that hodgepodge of different people's ideas and different formations, it's a mess and the way, as we've said already, the worst part about it is you spend all that money, it's where, if you could take all that money back and you could give it to Carl or Antelotti and say go with your idea, and you'd probably find there's some fantastic players, but they're man brands because they're a couple. Or just have an overlined strategy for the football club that you know is going to be in place for five years, but maybe we have got that. No, I'm not saying we haven't now, I'm not saying we haven't had that since Carl Antelotti came in. It's just that if you have that money to do that and then you can start finding those players to go together, but now it just feels like the biggest problem for me is we've got players that we only signed last summer and yet they already seem like they are not needed for what comes next or don't really feel like they fit in, say a push to requirements and that to me is the biggest indicator of how wrong we've been. We bought three cent of midfielders last year, you know, Andre, Gomez, Gabam and Delph and yet it just doesn't work, you know, Gomez has struggled, obviously had a very serious injury. Delph has had injuries since day one and Gabam has had injuries. I suppose there's a common theme there. The all three of them have been injured and it's meant we've not moved forward and then you add a Wobie into that as well and suddenly you're looking at the situation just scratching your head what we're going to do next. Yeah, I mean, we bought, you know, we bought Gomez. It's really difficult this because when you look on back over, when you sign in these players, you have to look at it easy to be wise after the event. So everybody wanted us to, majority, can I say everyone obviously, majority wanted us to make Gomez permanent. The Westam and all that was sniffing around people were panicking. The Westam team was loving it. Delph, okay, that was a mixed reaction. I'm not going to sit here and pretend people were made up with Delph. Some could understand it. We said we could understand what he was trying to do with it. Others were saying he's injured. They've been proven right. He has been injured, he hasn't offered anything. Barman looked like an excellent prospect, six or four box-to-box player, can do the job of Ghana. Probably not to break nothing as well as Ghana, but there's other things he could do that Ghana couldn't do. So you were thinking, okay, we're going to have this physical presence that can get up and down the pitch. So you can understand why he was both. We've not seen him. The lad played a game in the half, you know, when he's out. Now, okay, okay, the initial prognosis on him was very worrying. You were talking March, now they're saying October he'll be back, maybe November. So the jury is very much still out with Gabam because we've not seen him and I think it's unfair to judge him because we simply, the lad can't help being injured, that's the way it is. Do you think that's the common denominator, though, between everything, is that Gabamon injury, Gabamon as a position, the position he plays in, that's been the common denominator for all those players, is that without him being the player we needed, the person we were replacing Ghana with, that's why the rest of it hasn't worked. He was the keystone to it all. And I know he wasn't ever going to come into the team and just hit it off straight away. He was always going to take time. Do you think that was the one? Because I know that a big reason for that would say is, because Marco Silva's the agency to get him in the side as well. And I personally feel that's what has cost us the lad. I don't think he should have come on at Crystal Palace, I said that at the time. For me it was for a player who had just been back from the African Nations for a week, hadn't played any pre-season games and was thrown into the Premier League after 10 minutes of a Premier League game. He wasn't fit. He didn't look like he had a real idea of not only the Premier League, but our team. But you forget that. You bring a play-in, you've got a pre-season to try and better play it in. It's not easy, and then you throw a play-in into a game where you've got 10 men. Who are physical and you're away from home. Exactly. That to me was one of the worst decisions that Marco Silva I feel ever made. I think he did it for all those reasons. For the reason you just said. No, no. It's what I'm saying when people, when you're looking at players coming into the club and you can criticise Marcel Brands or you can applaud them and say, oh he's done well, he's brought this down, whatever it may be. The problem ever that last summer was that we only had one of those plays that we're talking about. We had one. The rest of them are all the same. Morgan Snidlin, Tom Davis, Sigurds, Gomez, Delph. None of them are quick. None of them. Garn, I don't forget they did the job of two players because he could get about the pit, he would break stuff off. If I criticised Brands, I would say he should have brought two gobbins in because he should have allowed one of them to, or to be bedding it as well. I think, what I would say is, I think we should have sold Garner earlier. I think we should have looked at the situation and I know he was at the African nations but I think we should have sold him at the beginning of the summer because he was always destined to go. We should have said to them, take him now and you can have him for £35 million and we can get on with our business. I think that was the first mistake. But I still think a more experienced manager would have looked at the situation and said, Rome's not built in a day. We don't need this lad for the first day. We don't need this lad for the first month. Tom Davis was on the bench that day. Wherever you think about Tom Davis, he's played over 100 games, wherever you think of him, Tom Davis coming into a gaming in the Crystal Palace knows what it's going to be like and could get about it. All right, the following week we play Wofford and we get three points and he starts and who's to say, regardless he would have started in that game, but I just think a more experienced manager would have looked at the situation and looked at it. We look at the first few games of the season and we get very worried very quickly because we're fans. I think good managers don't do that. I think they look at it and go, that's part of the pre-season process is those first few games. We used to say all the time, season doesn't start until the transfer window, this is when the transfer window shut at the end of August. Season doesn't really start until after that first international break and I still think that's the thing. I'm not saying good or bad, I think experienced managers would have left Gabamon and said, lad, have a few weeks of training with us, get to know the team and then we'll bring you in and then we'll bed you in. For me, I just think that for a player that we only had one other kind of as well, I think that, honestly, you could trace the entire season back to something as simple as that. I mean, obviously there's more than that. It's right, we should have looked at more players like him because of Garne being so important to us because he was that player, he was so important to us. It's weird that we didn't, you know, we just said there, three cents in my field plays, that would have made four, but then make the effort to get some off the door then. That's as simple as that, right? Well, we're getting this, so Snyddon, Morgan Snyddon, we'll talk about him very briefly now, but when he went to Nice said he wanted to go last summer, he said he had offers to go last summer and everything said to him, no doing other season. Well, evidence shouldn't have been saying that too, evidence shouldn't have been saying, well, we're going to bring this lad in who's going to be able to get up and down and we should, realistically, that should have been done early as possible because we should have had someone to come in because we knew, we knew regardless of whether Garne stayed or went, Garne wasn't going to be available the first day. I'm sure they got to the semi or the final, whatever, he went deep, didn't he, into the tournament, so we knew we were never going to have him anyway, so we should have had someone as well. I know, like you said, people hindsight are wonderful. But the thing about that is that football people, certainly people like Marcel Brands, they pay to understand those things, they can't get away with hindsight, they've got to cover the bases and I think the Morgan Snyddon's are really interesting because I remember the back end of the season, I remember the back end of the season before and, you know, Silver had come out a few times and said, I like him, I like Morgan Snyddon, I want him to stay. Now if the player was so adamant to go, why didn't we get him out and get someone like Morgan Snyddon in there? Well, someone more mobile. You know what I mean? Yeah. If you like the tall, athletic player, then why not go and say, right, we're going to let Morgan Snyddon go and let's look for a younger version, let's get rid of his wages. Why we can? He wants to go. Let's get rid of him. Why did, why? And again, that's what I'm saying. Why were we clinging on to things that we didn't really need to do? I say, I go back to Ghana. We all knew he wanted to go, but he gave us four great months at the end of the season. Surely we should have... And showed us what we need to see. Yeah, and surely we should have gone the first day and gone, do us a favour, if you want him, can you take him now? Because we don't... It got to a week before the season when we sold them. Where the problem? Yeah. And you actually seen Silver, you know, we were at Wigan the day he went. And Silver's future was like, I was trying to convince him to stay. And I was like, he was never going to stay. And I'm not putting that on Silver, by the way. No, I'm not. Because Silver was in a position where... It's everybody, isn't it? Yeah, it's everybody as well, but it was... It just smacked. You always look for things in football to follow patterns. It's exactly the same as the Romelu Lukaku thing. It was the undoing of Cumin. And this was the undoing of Silver. We... Lukaku. In February, he turned up a Finch farm with Mini Raiola, ready to sign a five-year deal. I left it in an extension. Big money, bladi bladi. Left the room when the spokesperson's mum came back and said, I'm not signing. They had to press it. There was a lot of stuff ready to go that day. Right? He didn't sign. And when he didn't sign, we knew he was going. We knew he'd be gone in the summer. He went in the summer. And we went all summer chasing Olivier Giroud. Left it like, didn't get a striker in. Cumin come up short. He had sands row and all. I didn't work out. And Cumin lost his job. The same with Silver. So does that come down to then, sort of understanding, having more understanding of what your club can and can not do in the times we went on. Do you know what I mean? Do you know what I mean? They said, I'm not talking as an everton. I'm talking like money wise. No, but what I'm saying is I'm not talking as an everton. I'm talking like if you were looking from the outside in. Is it not accepting someone like Lukaku or Garnet is going to go and saying, do you know what I mean? You know when you look at other clubs, right? And you look at other clubs, you go, we're going to sell this play in the summer. He's a great asset. I know what we're going to do is we're going to go and replace him. Right. And we've got look at the Gabrielle situation at the moment as it stands sitting here today in like Gabrielle. Obviously we were after them in there. The presence of Leo keeps on saying, you know, he's got to go because we've got to get the person in. And it's that understanding that what it's a conveyor belt. You're not going to keep these people forever. If they want to go, want to go, don't get me wrong. I'm not one of these people who just wants to play, wants to go. But if it's all being sort of agreed that the play is going to go, then get it done and get the next one in. And I think sometimes that, that realisation sort of holds us back as a club. I think the problem ever can have as well. And this will be, this will be us still feeling because it's, they've got two different areas. So this hasn't, this isn't just being on Marcel Brander's watch. So that then says to me, it's higher up. So it says it's either emotional decision higher up or it's a monetary decision higher up. Now, when we sold Llecharchew, don't forget before, Rom a Gom wedi ddor had he gone on board Jordan Pickford, Davey Clashon, we had other people lined up. We were still trying to keep Llecharchew. We knew he was going, we knew he was going to go, but the club was still trying to keep him. The club could have turned on and gone, you're going anywhere mate. You've still got three years left you ain't going anywhere. He didn't and he went, we didn't replace him. This time, maybe, maybe, and it's the only way I'll kind of accept it. If it won't go right, all right, that's different then, is if Everton were hamstrung money wise. So Marcel Brands didn't have that pot of money available to go right. Because the best clubs go and get the replacement in. So when the good player goes, the blows already being softened. Again, that's maybe where the, maybe. And I get, listen, don't get me wrong, the African nations is a big thing. They both played in it. So, yeah, but you can still sell someone. No, no, I'm just saying that might be the thing where we couldn't have got Gabam in any quicker. No, but we could have got someone else. And then Gabam on board anyway. I mean, let's start with Snidelam, because he played 15 games for Everton. He started 12 of them. His ratings off, just for anyone who didn't see the defence, rather than us just going right, we're giving them and that's the rating. I've done who scored and so for score, because they're supposedly a bit more scientific. They rated them 6.73 and 6.41. Across the season. Me personally, I think he's lucky if he gets a 6. But what I will say about Morgan Snidelam is, he did a job that he was supposed to do. It wasn't necessarily what Everton needed, Everton needed more. But in terms of someone who will break up the playing front of you back four, when he was allowed to do that with other legs round him, particularly the end of the season before Silver's one when we had a good season, he was good at just doing that job, winning the ball and just passing it on. The issue was, sometimes he looked like he couldn't be bothered and he had no gears to go through. So, I mean, what would you take on Snidelam? Obviously we've sold them and I know you've felt... I'm not going to give a player rating because I've got my player ratings to do on a separate video. And I don't know what they are yet, so I can't... I might be going against myself. But just what do you take on? Do you know what I would say? I'd say we would've finished the season better if we had them in our midfield. I genuinely believe that. And I know... You've brought people off the way you've played off. He could do a job and... It's the right decision to sell them. Of course it is because you've got to think about the future. Again, it's not for a handful of games. It's about the future. So, it's the right decision and maybe that decision like we said should be made last season. Big gain. Yeah, listen. I've been very open on this. I wanted them so from the Leon game onwards. Well, wait. His heart was not at Everton football club and it shows that on the pitch. So, I'm glad he's gone. But he still could do a job for us and he could do it. The mad thing is he could still do that job a lot better than other people could do. You actually love being at the club. So, he... John Davies. Yeah, okay. All right, fine. Let's move on to Fabian Belf. He's on the graphic there, came in. Came in. Supposedly, is someone to guide the midfield and have a presence in the dressing room. I think that's been... That was laid out from when we signed him. Silver spoke about it. Marcel Brand spoke about it. Delft spoke about the meetings and all was explained to him. It's been a disaster daily, I would say. I don't think there's been... I think there's been the odd game when he's had a really good game. I think Wolves are home. I think he was really good when he beat them 3-2. I think he played really well in that. But it's been a couple of games on you that you can think off your trap. He's a decent footballer. I'm not convinced he's what we need and the injuries ruin anything. What I would say is, I would say it's the injuries first that have been the problem. The injuries have completely ruined any kind of rhythm he's had. We won't know what UC would be to the team until he plays an ex-a-monter games or is available for ex-a-monter games. So that's the first thing. And that's the problem. People sit on... People, you know, wear nappy when he came. Some people wear nappy when he come in. For me, for the money... Listen, I don't know what his wages are so I can't sit here saying he's on ex-a-monter to this case. I think it was a three-year deal, a 28 for 8 million quid. I don't think that's bad. Premier League. Premier League. Premier League when... I don't think that's bad personally. I just... And sometimes, that's the risk you take. And it's backfired. Now, who's to say next season? He isn't fit all season. And he's a back-up left back and he's a sentiment fielder. And, you know, because he's injury free, he plays in a variety of positions and he has a good, solid season. And if that happens, and if he has that happens, then... And who's to say as well that the club don't lean from his injury record and say, listen, your red zone is not... The same. The same as everyone else's. So you've got to bring it down and when you get to this level here, we've got to pull you back and we all understand that. I would say the worst part of the whole thing was the fact that we had the lockdown and he came back injured. That's like the slapping in the face. Because he probably would... Well, he would have, he would have been better than Gomez. Sigurdun Davies in the middle of the park because he's played there before. OK. One thing people say and the right, he played a lot of games at left back for City near the end. But he still knows that he's a sentiment fiel player. He's done all right for us. I think spaz around. I thought he had a good game in that, contributed. A couple of other games he got stupidly sent off at Wofford away, but we went on to win the game and there's been some crack. I haven't forgiven him for kicking a ball up near against Newcastle instead of it in the corner flag, which cost us points. But he's obviously a decent footballer. Pep Guard, the older like them. And I think he'd like to come back. We got out of lockdown and he wasn't available and he didn't play in any game. And we had nine games. So I think Pep Guard, the older like them now because he could drop them into the team when he needed them and he knew that. If there was a drop off in quality or whatever, then you'd still, he was a classic, he was a classic squadfiller. That would go in and do a job and unfortunately he's been asked to do. The thing about it is he's come to us and I don't think anyone ever said, you're going to be our starting sentiment fielder. And that's the funny thing. I don't think there's ever been this a weight of expectation on him that he was going to drive the club forward. We just seen it as a utility player. We've seen it as like a decent player coming in for decent money. Good experience. Good age, good experience. And as long as we can keep him fit, keeping him fit has been the biggest problem. And if we could have kept him fit then I think we can keep him fit. I think we've got a good player, but it's whether we can keep him fit. Well, he played 16 times for us in the Premier League. 13 starts, which is more than I remember him playing. He don't start that many games. Sophie scored giving 6.69. Who scored giving 6.49. I'd probably have to give him 5 out of 10 over the season for me personally because he just hasn't been available for us. And there's been games when I would have expected him to take the game a little bit more. Now, you're right. If you can get him fit and if you put a partner in with him, who can actually get about the pitch as well and take and share the weight or take a bit of the weight off him, then he might be, you know, in a more settled side, he's probably a better player. Maybe we're looking for too much from him because we're all looking at that midfield in going. We miss Ghana cos, you know, and Ghana, don't forget me wrong. Ghana, you were looking at in going, he's nearly 30. When he gets across the half-way line, doesn't really do anything. But it's the only other stuff that Ghana did that I've missed massively this season. So I'd have to give him probably five out of ten. I know you're not Ghana cos you've got your own thing to do. But let's move on to Tom Davis. A lad that's played, appeared 30 times this season for Everton. Started 23 games, scored one goal, no assists. Obviously, Deltin Snidl had no assists either or any goals. That'll be a common theme as we go through the midfield. Tom Davis' sofa score was 6.64. And who scored at him at 6.45 across the season. I'd probably give him a 6 out of ten. I think there's been some games when he's looked good and done alright. Since lockdown, I think he's been awful. I have to say that, apart from maybe Sheffield United where he just did a job in terms of getting stuck in. Am at the stage where we're going to you, am at the stage with Tom Davis now where we loan him or we sell him. I love him to improve and stay part of the squad. I think keeping him in now for next season, I think damages him. I think it damages him as an Everton player and I think it damages him value-wise. So I think he needs to go. Preference will be on loan to maybe Germany or something like that and play most weeks and see if his level improves. And then we make a decision on him because there will be in every successful squad or every decent squad you need a Tom Davis type player who can come in, do a couple of games and go back out and do different jobs. But they have to keep up to the level and at the moment, I think his confidence looks shot a bit as well. So, what would you do with him? No, I think he's got to go and have a year somewhere. And I know a lot of people want to sell him and I have to fair enough. I've got no problem with that. Lot of people think that he's done everything he can and he'll never improve any further. He's only 22 isn't he? I'd like to see him I'd like to see him play a full season in one position and I don't think that can happen to us. So, a loan somewhere would have to do excuse me a loan somewhere would have to do maybe Jeremy or somewhere but it would have to be something that really pushes him to and get him out of his comfort zone and I think that has to be for him as well and I'm not saying that he's comfortable at everything but he doesn't seem to be improving as a player and I think when you see that John Hogg eating during the season playing games of football Tom's played a lot of football 30 games so it's not like he hasn't played so I I think it's one or the other it's one or the other I don't want him starting the team maybe a different voice as well from another coach another voice is he not another I think I think what he needs is a bit like what John Joe happened where a manager says I want that player and I want that player because I've got an idea for him Shelker would be great for him I should buy Shelker I think it would be a great move for him especially if at some stage the fans get back in the stadium next season and they're passionate I think it would be good for them Andre Gomes 22 million very very talented footballer great passer of the ball terrible injury this season the bonus we saw them again let's be honest a couple of decent games in lockdown some poor games in lockdown also missed the couple it's evident he needs physicality and pace next to him because he's not very good tackling let's be honest but when he shows those flashes you see he's got that ability that could really help this side he ended up playing 19 Premier League games so half the games started 17 of them one assist which came against Villa no goals again another massive problem for everything 6.48 with Solfer score 6.42 I scored I scored on my bar of 6 out of 10 because I think at times he's by far our best midfield player but that there's not much of a bar at the moment because they all seem to do the same and he's the one who can actually take the ball and get us going but a lower level than he produced the year before it's static awful it's static terrible he's a midfielder he's supposed to be an attacking midfielder I suppose he's not one he's not really one thing and that's a big problem because we've got a midfielful of people who are very little going forward that's name for midfielder Solfer and just one goal and one assist across those four it's the problem isn't it but Andre Gomez is how was he really playing that well not really he's doing alright but he wasn't playing that well after the injury okay come back against Arsenal and come on add a really good little cameo but you know Sheffield's tonight of the part hasn't really done anything you can excuse him because of the injury I suppose but now he's got this has been his preseason but you're right I think we do need someone next to him who allows him to get up the pitch someone where he feels like he's got that security behind him I don't know whether that's something in his own head I mean the last sort of 10-15 minutes against Villet when we were 10 minutes when we were 1-0 down and he just started moving up the pitch and getting around the box he was he's got good feet he's got strong so if he can break into the box people are going to stop him but he's never in the box he's never around the box he's always 10 yards outside the box and it's just that's something that the manager is going to have to or someone is going to say listen you need to start being up there if your legs can't carry it then you're not in my team because you can't have midfielders who sit on the edge or his partner has to be the ones breaking into the box yeah maybe so but again that's the make-up of the team it's buying very similar players and not not really that's been the problem putting them together there's a big season ahead of him big season ahead of him and what we need is real genuine alternates so that he doesn't have to play all the time I'm on a shave one till the end but just very quickly we're going to move into a wide area obviously signed deadline today 25 Premier League games for Evan started 19 of them one goal no assists had 8 6 goals and 8 assists the season before for Arsenal one goal no assists for Evan in the Premier League sofa score has him at 6.75 who scored has him at 6.56 again for me it'd probably be 6 out of 10 because I think there's been times when he's looked good West Hamerown particularly when he was in the 10 Sheffield Wednesday away in the caravoke he played in that as well but very bright, very good very comfortable memory come on at Southampton and turned the game in Evan's favour memory played quite well down at Leicester as well when we ended up losing but there's been not enough of that for me he's had two spells out with an injury hasn't done enough he hasn't nailed down a position in a season when I don't think any of our wide plays have nailed down a season it's because he's not a wide play but he did play off the left for Arsenal he's not a wide play as long as I've got a hole somewhere bottom of my back he's not a wide play he is a central player who needs to be able to go left or right he needs to link the play he needs to go up the pitch with the ball and I remember the day we signed I remember sitting here with Andy and Andy telling me his numbers and saying why he was excited to sign them and he said he carries the ball we were looking for a ball carrier you know the summer before we tried to get Malcolm in and his numbers in fans of carrying the football were hugely impressive it's something we've not had in the side since Ross Barkley left and that's what excited Andy and I could only go off his numbers but you can't carry the ball in a wide position you just can't there's no way to go unless you've got light and pace and he hasn't and you're right I was down in Southampton and the memory came on it was 1-1 he did change the game he picked the ball up moved us forward he got the ball to sit he was waxing in with Charleston finishes he did exactly the same at Leicester on the left he was waxing in with Charleston that's what we miss in this team we miss somebody who can go through the areas do you think that he would have had more success off the left just bear with me if we had two centre midfielders who made runs as well because I think that happened with Bernadie because Ghana could move and we had Sigarton I think with the midfield make-up we've got everyone sits behind so it's dead easy to block off so therefore he does become redundant you've got to have players who move and no-one moves but I think he was born to play in the 3 in the midfield he was going to take gilfee-Shigarton position number one I put that down to Michael Silver again it's just terrible management you buy a player playing in that position simple as that if you have to upset someone and I just don't think Michael Silver liked upsetting people that was his big problem he's not a manager he's a good coach he's not a manager if you're a manager you've got to be willing to say you want to play me because every time he dropped gilfee-Shigarton he was an injury to be after and gilfee-Shigarton was backing the team no ifs or buts just back he's not a good manager he's not a big manager and I don't think he ever will be unless he learns to deal with people or have people around them who can deal with those people but I fear for a woby because I just don't think he fits in unless unless he learns another side of the game where he can play centre midfield but I don't think he can but because he needs to he needs to learn the hard bits and make some on your listen to offers and that's because and that's not because I think he's rubbish I just don't think he fits and if he doesn't fit then don't hang around also don't wreck the lads career give him, let him go I honestly feel they'd be somewhere where he'd play off the striker I still think he's a good player I still think he's got a lot to offer I just don't think he fits into what he wants and again someone who's deemed as a failure because we've gone from one formation to another formation but I put the failure down to the manager not making the decision and put them in the team from day one and this player any player that people are just shawoned into playing on the left or playing on the right it comes down to the manager not having the bollocks to play him in what his position is not being to me is a big thing I mean if he isn't sold this summer we may see him going into that number 10 if Carlo does play at times the 4-2-3-1 because I think he is someone who will travel I think he'd be more effective than Sigurddon but then if there's a bid coming for them his value is probably very similar to what it was because it's only been a year therefore maybe the bid will see but now the one who comes into this category 27 games played in the Premier League 15 starts, 3 goals to assist he's our best, most creative and that's horrific isn't it 3 goals to assist is the best 6.7-1 from Sophie's score, 6.5-7 from Hugh's score I've given Adgo with 6 out of 10 again I think there's been moments when he's been very good but they've been fleeting I think the year before him and Dean had a cracking little partnership I think that's because we had runners in the field we had people who would move around Sigurddon was more mobile a year ago in that team Garnah naturally moved around so people and then that because of that Bernard could travel into those spaces this year because we are so static he just looks physically like he can't cope now because there isn't any movement Don't forget he had a bad injury this season as well He had an injury and obviously he's had the mental health He had a bad injury but I also think I cannot put it on the manager he brought a wellbeing and didn't play me in his proper position and put him in Bernard's position so what does that say to the player and he had a decent start so what does that say to the player and again that's terrible management that's terrible management that's been able to go you know what I'm a little bit less scared of that player than I am of you so I'm going to put him in your position that's not knowing how to deal with players that are on the manager and Bernard's size will always work against him but he's a good footballer again he's another one he's a number 10 but he's finished the season off really well and you're right if you've got other players in there like a Garnah who do the physical work for you you get away with them but we know how good of a player he is from the season before we know that he can travel with the ball really well we know we were some at the end of the season oh this is great like PNR and Bains all over there needs to and this season it's just been the manager broke it up for some the manager broke it up because he didn't know what to do with a Wobby it's the simple fact he did not know what to do with a Wobby and that's because he couldn't handle Sigarton clearly as a character I don't know why if you buy a player because you think another player it needs to be replaced then replace him replace the player I'm afraid I put a lot of this on my silver shoulders and this is where when you go back to talking about it's on the players and I fully appreciate that but if you've got a good thing that's working and something else isn't working then deal with the problem that isn't working and the problem that seems to have not been working all season is you know gilfy Sigarton more than anything else which I know we'll come on to in a minute Anthony Gordon 11 appearance is four starts four goals one assist 6.68 and 6.46 respectively again I'll probably give him 6.5 out of 10 I think he's done well he's thrown in got some starts looked a real bright prospect for us in a difficult time because the team's not playing very well obviously behind closed doors and all that's been different he's a bright spot in the season and that hasn't been great not towards the future yeah it's been a it's been a nice way to sort of give him games hasn't it in the lockdown I know he'd already played before that and you can go back as far as what November December when he got involved and so it's been a it's been a decent introduction we can all see I think what he offers and hopefully next season he kicks on a little bit more takes the confidence again manager finds a position that suits the player but there's no rush there's no there's no expectation it's just let the player play and let it hopefully he yeah and he hasn't what's good is I suppose he hasn't had one of those moments yeah he hasn't had one of those moments where people go he's the best player in the world look at him it's slow and steady building up and I think that keeps the expectations down but he looks like a good prospect no he looks like a good player but they've obviously got a feeling and he's going to be very talented footballer so let's just let him get on with it fair play and then finally on this Theo Walcott who's played 25 times for Everton this season 17 starts and the Premier League 6.66 from Sophie Scorsic 6.44 from Humsgood a Walcott for me is a good squad player he's not a starter he's given us something a little bit since he came back from injury you see that because we don't have anybody on the right and he's probably our best option on the right at the moment but that's an area that we need to buy sadly Theo Walcott is a starter in this team no matter what it is no in this team he is because there's nobody better than them and you know what people are going to argue all day but there isn't there's no one better than them at right midfield in this squad and they have to buy some on to replace them but what he gives you when he plays is what other players in our squad don't give us what other players in our squad is that he's direct he carries the ball he takes the ball from the halfway line to the edge of the box what he does with it after that is the problem that's the problem but they'd have an assist on Sunday no he did he scored against Ville I'm not sitting here saying he's brilliant what I'm saying is he's the best in our squad and that is a defining issue but he does carry the ball and whether people like it or not that's modern football it's players who travel in straight lines with the ball you're looking at players you'll get you up the pitch you'll get you from one area to another that'll get you out of trouble or whatever it's decision making isn't it it's finer balls rubbish we've seen it on Sunday in the last game you should have put us up in front at 1-1 saying it before we scored it's as fine a ball it's that thing that probably in the old days he didn't have to worry about when he was a kid he had the confidence and most of the time he just put it in the back of the net forgot that skill but sadly he has he hasn't got that little bit of pace to get him those extra yards it's just him and the keeper or whatever but sadly he is the best we've got and that's something that we're going to have to that's a serious position to replace and nobody has replaced him there's been loads of plays of opportunities but every time a wobby gets the ball he puts his foot on it and wants to come inside there's nobody, should there be a little run on the right which I didn't mind I thought we could have done that a few more times because I thought it worked but look at that he's been in and out and it's very sad to say he's the best right winger we need to replace that area he's a good sub in my opinion and finally the biggest disappointment of them all is this man who's fell off a cliff this season really he hasn't been amazing for everything but he's been decent till this season 13 goals last season this year 35 appearances 30 goals scored in the Premier League shot on target 14 big chances created 5 assists 2 that is that's horrendous he dropped when you think about what he did last season and the goals he scored and how you got away with at the end of the season he's like the brains of the team everything goes through you get the ball to him and then you start getting wider and you get into the forward plays and over the summer his legs have just gone we got married that's where his legs went he got lazy he got he just stopped doing what he was good at which was getting himself in that pocket and he that was it once he stopped being in that pocket once he stopped getting the ball to him then garbage being in the pocket that's where his legs went that's the problem for me is that he's just he just offers nothing now he's not even having shots in 25 yards that just aren't going in I'm causing the keeper to and then we can pick the bits up maybe from a ritualist or a dom running in there's been too many gains when it's just passed on by he's pointing where to and turning knocking it back all the time that's not he cost a lot of money on big wages but not even that it's the fact that passengers we can't afford and he's a passenger every week the drop off 13 goals to 2 one of them is a penalty you know just gone the other goal was actually ironically he come on against west and for 15 minutes and ran around and scored a cracker and maybe that should have been his role and maybe the world will be playing maybe he should have been the last 25 minutes when people with levels are dropped and he can get in that space again you can look at Marco Silva with that and go bad management should have done that he can't play wide managers have tried to use him off the side and his legs have gone he could do it a few years ago but now he's obviously a good football player but if you can't compete and run around on a Premier League pitch then you know go to anybody certainly not in a team you could probably play in a team that has got fast younger players you can do a lot of running form and get in the ball and then maybe he could influence them but in this particular evident team and the way it's made up he's got Italian footy written all over him without the shadow I think in Italy I think it would suit his skills I think certainly you could play in that deeper playmaker role I think the problem is he just doesn't suit that kind of player at the moment and we play 4-4-2 but we do now yeah but even at the beginning of the season maybe it was a hangover from the following season and a lot of football with the World Cup and it's Euro and that kind of thing it's just not worked and then the chance as I said when a Wobie was in there and there was a bit more freshness it helped but the manager didn't stick to his guns and he just seems to he's being continued in the team and I can understand why because of his set pieces we've scored a lot of goals from set pieces certainly corners and stuff from this season so they obviously feel like that's a factor to keep him in the side but he's it's lucky that Dominic Harvell-Lunes took up the slack of the goal scoring because if he hadn't we'd be in major trouble I think because to drop that many goals we've got what? 9 goals across my field we've got Walcott, Superman 3-5 Wobie all of those in my field we've just gone through 9 goals and yeah there's Jack Reel he's got a tenth of the season he's got a team that he's hanging on staying up 10 goals he's got 5 and 6 assists just one player you're looking at how best there's Bernard and people will say Bernard's awful and yet he's got 3 goals and 2 assists Walcott another person but the thing about it is that we should be saying Bernard's rubbish with those numbers and Walcott centre him in field plays he gets him 1 to penalty so we're open play we've got 2 goals from our midfielder in open play Davis is Southampton I take offers for all of them I want to say a word I take offers for every single one of them there's no-one who says to you I can't be shoulders they're not offering anything you've got to get plays you offer to do something your centre midfielder in my opinion the pair of them should be able to get you half a dozen goals they should you're looking at the best Chelsea, Mason Montscore about 9 goals or something but they're not scoring goals they should be making goals and I know assists aren't the best and I know chances are created but still you would have thought we can contribute more that more than anything really for me underpins evidence evidence problems so what's the score for him and did you do Walcott as well Walcott was 2 goals 3 6.44 and Sigarton is 6.86 and 6.65 but I don't know his numbers are the best out of all of our midfielder on one on the others the knockers who scored are a little bit harsher so it drops down harsher wyt ti wneud mai? well yeah yours are different mine have no scientific they just take everything into account but that's the midfield and I think regardless of the chat we've had and regardless of the numbers I've just given you the most diamond statistic there is 9 goals across all of them including wingers I think that's pathetic because we should be looking to sign a right winger at getting 9 on his own a left winger at getting half a dozen two centre midfielders that get half a dozen is another 20 or 23 24 goals you put that into the jar and you call that looming mwy's key all of a sudden you score in 60-70 and I know obviously we'll be doing the strikers next but I think it makes those numbers make a mockery of anyone criticising our forwards when you're midfielders we've got Michael Keyin and Gary Mina have scored more than one, two, three, four five and equal Theo Walcott and part of all midfielders are two centre backs mate you know it's probably got more assists he's got three assists he's got many assists to see and he's a centre back Gary Mina, injury hit Gary Mina injury prone he's played 29 Premier League games he's got two goals and one assist bettered numbers than diamond ffilders that's the key if you're anti-lotty and a statman and you sit down and look at them you just go see that you don't need to be a genius and that's why I haven't struggled embarrassing there you go that's at the midfield it's a joke it's the backhaul of Everton football club and yet it's had all that money spent on you 22 that's 40 to 50 95 125 145 million just off the top of me there you go let us know your thoughts in the comments what would you do to this midfield and should footballers get married snidel among you yet they shouldn't get married they should wait to leave finished playing football and then get married or get married before you come to Everton no no just never get married just stay single on the form till you finish football there you go make sure you check out our video on the defence make sure you check out our season review as a whole and yet we'll be doing one on the forwards as well and we'll be doing the player ratings as well my player ratings from the season so it's that's the scientific one that's the angry rant at the end of games is more scientific than that let's be honest as a football fan there you go give this video a like, subscribe and if you want more great videos join us on page and the link is in the description thank you for watching, see you later