 Welcome to Toffy TV, Hammers Rodriguez is an Everton player, he is signed on the dotted line, the Colombian international has arrived to join up with his old boss Carlo Anciolotti for the third time and I know so many of its ownings are excited about this one, including this. I am, I am. It's weird, it's weird isn't it? It's a weird thing to say Carlo Anciolotti and Hammers Rodriguez when you wouldn't have thought this time last year that Everton a year later would have Anciolotti and Hammers Rodriguez in the club that they have. This is what it's all about isn't it? This is what it's all about though isn't it? These are those moments that we were all hoping for. When Farhad Meshiri came in you know we weren't, we've been given, you know, different miles. All of Dyson and Towson and Cuman and Classen and now we've got Anciolotti and Hammers Rodriguez so you know all good things come to those we wait, you know we wait. I think, I think, I think you know I'm not putting. It's going to say let's not go. No, no I'm just saying these are the things I think we just expected and I think for me you know I've got to go. I've had me reservations about a deal like this just because of the situation we found ourselves financially and having players at the, not the wrong stage of the careers as such but paying maybe over the odds for players. But I think with someone like this there's almost a, there's an untapped, it's an untapped resource on the pitch, off the pitch. He's back with his favourite manager, he said this new standard, he's his favourite manager and I think he brings, he does bring that, he does bring that extra little thing. You know I think when we brought back Wayne Rooney he was an element of that but we didn't quite use it the right way. He didn't maybe fulfil certain obligations and you know it only lasted a year. And he was three years old wasn't he? And but he also had more miles on the clock though, whereas on this one I'm hoping, hoping that this leads to better times for us and there's a lot being made about comparisons with how say a Manchester City have done things you know, you know, Rubino's been mentioned and I remember when they went in for Cacard and these kind of things. Who knows, who knows where a sign like this can take us. All I know is that he's a good footballer and hopefully that's what we see. Do you see, I was just going to say before we got onto something, do you see him as a Rubino moment? I don't. I understand when people use the comparison but Rubino I think was 23 or something when City's had them and obviously he's 29 but it was different times then as well of course you could pay whatever without FFP couldn't you say? I don't see him as such as a Rubino because I think Rubino was shoe-owned into City almost. He thought he was going to see United at the next level. Yeah I think he was shoe-owned into City and I feel like you know with having Carl Angelotti already at the club and him being established now for you know it's nine months he's been at the club isn't he? So I think that's already been established and I think if that's the comparison that's the comparison. I don't know what other comparisons to make, I really don't. All I know is he's a good player and hopefully as I said, hopefully we get the best out of him and with a manager who's had them already twice you know Real Madrid, Bayern Munich. That counts for a hell of a lot I think as well when you come to Bayern a player. A player knowing the system of the manager, a manager knowing the system of the player. The player knowing what it's expected from the manager, the manager knowing that he'll get those things from the player. So it can only be positive I'm hoping and thinking. I mean he's one of the most, without a shadow, without technically he'll be one of the most talented footballers, a lot of us will have seen play for Everton in terms of his technical abilities. He's got his left foot fantastic, he's lucky enough to remember Kevin Sheedy, he's got a wonderful left foot, this kid has got a brilliant left foot on him. Last couple of seasons he hasn't played as much football, that might be to Everton's benefit in terms of miles on the clock. He's obviously, it's a new challenge for him, he's coming to the Premier League, he's wanted to play in the Premier League. He's also got, like you've just said, a couple of times there a manager who he'd really trust. And let's be honest he wouldn't be an Everton without Carlo Antialotti. He wouldn't have come to play for Everton under Marco Silver or Sam Allardice, let's be honest. But you're right, we've got to take what it is at the time and Antialotti is our man. And this kid can come in and play in a few positions for us on these. There can be no doubt about his actual quality, no doubt that he improves Everton's side without all the squad. But would you, as a 29-year-old, would you have preferred to have seen a younger forward player or do you just think now let's see what, let's see with his experience what he can do for us? His age doesn't really bother me. As such, I think athletes, I think there's still plenty of miles on the clock when they get to that age. You know, these are athletes and yes, we're getting now conditioned to know all about the monetary side of football, the sell-on values, FFP, amatisation, all these words that get thrown around. We've debated this many a time and what we need at Everton are good footballers and unfortunately when you're a club like Everton, those players don't always come round in their peak or you don't have them in their peak. And sometimes you just need a couple through the door who may have been that big, big, big clubs to come in and, as you've just said there, you're not always going to get those players at the right time of the career because of who we are but you've got to build a culture so you are bringing those players in at the right time of the career and that doesn't happen straight away. It really doesn't and for some clubs it never happens. That's how you become in a league club or a Champions League club is you start to bring players in at the right time. If we want to find comparisons out there, the comparison to us at the moment would be somewhere like Spare's who are probably two, three years ahead of us in terms of they've got the stadium and they've had a good collection of players who are playing the Champions League but you wouldn't look at those players and go, well they've gone out and bought well-class players. They've been lucky to build players, Harry Kane and Deli Alley and they've had a few to it, good scouting and good coaching. So there's different ways to do it but certainly players who are 25, 26 are well-class and not going to fall into our lap so we've got to go out there and reap the benefits of players who have been there who are just a little bit further on now. This fella, we all remember the goal in 2014, the chest and volley for Columbia in the World Cup seeing him scoring incredible goals around and saying it's buying me unique, brilliant and you look at him and think that kind of ability coming into us but the other thing with him as well is easily, easily the most high profile player we've ever had on a world stage. They think there's only Manchester United. I think who have more followers than them on Twitter if you want to measure it by that but he's the sixth, I think he's the sixth most popular athlete in the world in terms of following. That's including a list that has Lebron James in it by the way and people like that so it's huge for Evan and the club to have this player coming in but he is a fantastic see of Evan and can do something with that. Can we build on it? That's the big thing. We've also got Jeri Meenard here as well, we've got a club. We've got Richard Allison as well. I don't want to just put the whole thing into it but these countries are covered by similar TV stations and football, math countries. We've got Bernard in there as well. All these countries love the Premier League so we've got to be expanding the brand and hoping that a player like that does that as well and start attracting. Listen, you might have a lot of people out there who are especially from South American countries, Spanish-speaking countries or Portuguese-speaking countries. People might follow Real Madrid or Barcelona or Benfica or whoever. But we can make them their club in England or just a club that they go and buy a share from with their club. The club that you've left. You know, hammies on the back, you know, whatever. That's what you want, isn't it? These are the things that Evan hasn't been productive enough. He's obviously a hugely experienced player so we'll have a look now. 338 club games he's played. He's got 104 goals, 124 assists. He's played 76 internationals for Colombia and has got 22 international goals. So obviously, looking at his numbers there, it's like one in three roughly for games and goals. Yeah, that's impressive. The assists are the big one, isn't it, as well? To be involved in what's 128 goals in 338 games. He's the third highest goalscorer for Colombia as well. I don't think he's that far behind becoming the second as well. So there's a motivation for him. You know, obviously take a lot of pride in playing for the international side. You've got the World Cup coming up as well in a couple of years as well. It's a big motivating factor to get there. And the Copa America next summer as well, isn't it? 21. It's stretching to September now or something. No, obviously there is. But his numbers are very impressive. Like I said, 228 goals in 338 games to be involved in shows you the kind of ability that I haven't been getting. You know, like we all do. I've invested heavily about three hours in watching clips of him when I knew that he was coming and seeing some of his passing abilities incredible and his goals and his shoot from outside the box and score great goals. You know, you put that into this evident team which is, we spoke many times, nine goals across our midfield from everybody last season. You're looking at this fella who was getting eight and nine for Bayern Munich and Real Madrid, you know. You put that in. It can only make the team go up. You touched on it a few times. Creating the culture. This fella knows what Antielotti knows when he's getting off him. You start putting that in. That's where we finish. With the rest of the squad that's there. How big a boost you think it is for players who are there to see him. Cos he's the name, isn't he? To see him come into everything. I think he's straight away someone like Richard Allison. I think straight away that's a call to action. Everything's straight away showing we do mean business. We know there's been little mentions of him maybe leaving. Not this season, obviously, but maybe next summer, let's say. You know, you'll have grown up knowing that this fella was a big star. Like anybody within a certain territory, especially when you play, especially when you're involved in a couple of menachas. Now obviously if you challenge one-one, you've got all these out there. They'll know that. Yet he means part of the squad. It's just telling everybody. I'm thinking of people like Dominic Calvert-Lewin. I'm thinking of people like Anthony Gordon, who just signed an E5 year deal recently. You're training all of a sudden. I mean, if you're Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Moise Keane maybe, and you're Richard Allison, then you've got somebody back creative. All of a sudden you're thinking this fella can put the ball on a... It's simple, isn't it? It is saying to not only the people who are at the club, the players, but the fans and the outside world, is that everything are trying to break through. Get back into Europe and start trying to push on. The last word before we do wrap it up. What do you make of people who, elements of the media, who are kind of looking at us snareingly? You know, we've seen your... Oh, hi, Mark, to Mark. I've done an answer with the thing about Anciolotti. Hames Rodri, oh, he doesn't play for Real Madrid, he's an outcast. He's an outcast cos Real Madrid have got about 30 really good players. We're talking about a Welsh fellow there who's not bad. He's won all kinds of Champions League. Can't get anywhere near the team as well. What do you make of that? Almost snobbish look of, like, why you shouldn't be trying to break in this big six as we've got ours established? Doesn't bother me. I've been used to it for years, haven't we? So, when you're not trying, they ask the question, why aren't you trying? And then when you start trying, they start saying, why aren't you? People ask questions of, like, I'll go back to Spades. People ask all the question all the time. Why didn't Spades go out and buy this play? Why didn't Spades go out and buy that play when they were at the highest? Why didn't they take a chance on this play? I always find that sometimes what tends to happen is when teams are on the top, at the very top, it's fine for them to go and buy plays like that. You know, Man United used to... They were linked with him. But Man United used to go out and get... But look at, like, when they went and bought Robin van Persie. OK, that was the... that was the icing on, and I understand that. Liverpool are buying, trying to get Tiago. You know, again, that's the same age, but there's that finish in touch. All the top Chelsea Tiago silver. No one's saying anything about them, Addy. No one's saying, now we're trying to do it the other way. Now, and I know... Listen, it doesn't matter. We're happiest fans. The club are happy. And, you know, whatever happens, happens, but everything can't be accused of not trying to do things because I think there'll be two... This buys your time while you're trying to get all of those top youngsters as well and allow them to come through and allow them to develop. This allows your time. This makes people sit up and go, well, actually, they are trying to do things a little bit different. And we need to because, you know, the last few seasons have been very, very poor. So it's exciting to have a play like this at the club. It's exciting to have what follows this. The only disappointing part will be that we will not be in the stadiums for when he's making his debut and that kind of thing. So that is the only disappointing thing, but that's just the way it is. Tiago, we'll be having more on this side and we'll be breaking this down, getting all the stats, looking at what he's been doing. I won't, certainly. That'll be Andy. I'll just be sitting there sneering going, haha, 29. So there you go. Subscribe if you haven't. If you've just found this channel because of Amazon Rodriguez, please subscribe. We'll be going heavy, heavy on this player. Heavy on this player, so please subscribe. And you can get subtitles if you're not using subtitles by now. There you go. If you're sitting to just waffle on for 15, 20 minutes. Subscribe, give this video a like, and if you want to watch more videos, live, daily videos, join us over on our Patreon where you can get involved in the conversation yourself. The link is in the description. Thank you for watching. 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