 Welcome to Toffy TV, I am joined by Sarah Halpin to discuss evidence transfer windows so far, the six days to go, a lot of people are getting very, very edgy, rightly so I suppose because we haven't addressed everything but how do you see it's gone so far? Do you know what actually, I think getting dinye in the other day kind of made me feel a lot better about things, we signed now two players in quite quick succession and all of a sudden now that left hand side looks really good, I was having the conversation earlier in the week with somebody about how last season we had a very poor right back playing at left back and then we had a mix match of Dominic Calvert-Lewin at times, Balasi, even Rooney, Sigurdson down the left hand side so it was just a terrible part of the pitch forever in last season and now all of a sudden we've got Ray Charleson who we know what he's capable of and so far what we've seen of him, he looks every bit like the player he did at the start of last season for Watford. Dinye's come in now as well as Baines' replacement going forward and I think wasn't quite good enough to overthrow Albert at Barcelona but who was going to be really, I'll take that, I think I'm excited about what he's going to bring because I think Baines fantastic servant still got stuff to offer Everton but he hasn't got the legs anymore has he with the age so I'm pleased with that and the thing that's obviously the huge concern is the centre halves getting those in but I keep calming myself down over that because I think it's such an urgent thing that it will be addressed that they are going to bring in some centre backs or at least one, I've got every faith that they will because they can't not so I think now we get that position addressed and you start to feel a lot better. Ashley Williams going as well delighted with that, we're starting to see the outgoings as well which are equally as important as the incomings because of the size of the squad and stuff like that so yeah maybe a bit frustrating probably would have liked to have seen four at this point four or five but it's going to take time but the ones that we have brought in pleased with it's just now getting those centre backs in for me and then we can start to look forward more. This summer it's always going to be difficult because obviously there's been so many changes at the club you know at the board level and I feel as though silver and brands as much as the homework they did do before they come into the club everything's different when it's in front of you so there'll be players that they look at and thought no don't fancy them. There might be the odd one of them who's they've gone no what he's actually alright he could do me a job if we can get this replacement there might have been players they've looked at and gone he'll be acting sort him and after a couple of weeks you've gone actually no he's going to go up the door. So he was the add all that and I think it's right that I think it's right that they're assessing everybody thoroughly because the problem I think everything I've had or a lot of clubs have isn't just everything when you change managers so frequently every a new manager are coming in by players then you change your manager and a new one will come in and go but you don't do what I needed to do so they'll buy a rafter players and all of a sudden you just got mishmash everywhere and this was something we never had to worry about. So I think this summer their biggest job is making sure they assess everyone thoroughly and what I feel is really important is that everybody acknowledges and understands that. This isn't just to be ready for wolves this is the start of his reign so it's bigger than the first game of the season it's about going forward. ac yn gweithio i'n undesgol fel mae'r gweithio i'r fod yn ei wneud. Mae'r gweithio yn y troi. Mae'n byw'n gweithio yma o'r sefydliadau. Mae'n gweithio. Mae'n eu gwirio'n ddau'r gweithi, ddangos oedd yn ddau'r gweithi, mae'n ddau'r gweithio. Mae'n ddau'r gweithio i'r barclon, yma'n gweithio i'r clubau lluniau, gyda gweithio'r gweithio. ac efallai'r wych yn ychydig gyda'r cymryd i gael yn roi'r cyfnodol, ac yn ymgyrch yn hyn i, mae'n ffordd o'n bwysig, ac mae'n gwybod bod y dyfodol yn ymweyste i'r cyfnodol yma, mae'r ffantastig er mwyn i'r ffordd. Mae'r cyfrwyng yn ei ffwrdd, a'n gwneud gyda'r ysgol, mae'n bwysig ar gyfer 18 mwyn, mae'n gweithio. Rhaid eich gweithio, mae'n ôl yn ymgyrch yn gweithio. Mae'n gweithio ar gyfer ar gyfer, Fawr, mae'n fawr i'n ddweud yn fywod yn Honeyborough. Fawr umdwys ar ddweud y dyma. Rhaid i ddw i fynd mor angen, welcast yn fawr i Shi. Mae'r ddweud yn fawr angen, maen nhw'n digwydd. Fawr e'n golygu ein rai gyfosbwyntaidd. Mae'n gwbod fawr ag erbyn nhw'n fawr ar ôl. Mae'r gwel fawr yn ddweud y mae eich egweithiol ar ôl. Fawr, sgwrnod, ar gwell o'r cyffredin. Cfaint o'ch wneud yma, mae'n dod o'r ddweud yma. Wayne Rooney, Davy Classen, Ffunus Morrie, Ashley Williams, Kevin Morales will go today. There's five big decent earners, but five big players. I suppose five players who, well, I take class now. There's four players who were involved to a point last season, obviously, Morales for the first half of the season and number now. So, you know, big earners off the wage bill. Obviously, we've seen Joel Robles go as well, so that's six out the squad. We've seen Anthony Robinson sign a new three-year deal today and he's gone on loan to Wigan, which I think is a fantastic move for them. Definitely. So, you know, looks like Matty Pennington may follow him to Wigan, leads one him as well. So that'll be another one out the door in terms of development. So I think that side of it, the cutting the squad accordingly, which is what they said they would do. You know, we found out that Williams wasn't going to be involved in Morales and Nicola Vlasic and Cucamartina. What are your thoughts on Nicola Vlasic first and foremost? I was a bit surprised by that one, to be honest, when it came out that he'd been told to train away from the first team. I think every other player that you've listed there wouldn't be so surprised about it at all. I think we expected them to be moving on. But Vlasic, it's an interesting one because he's almost like another kind of luckman in a lot of ways. We haven't seen enough of him when he's come in, times he's really impressed and looked like there's a real talent there and potential. Other times he's come in and been pretty poor. But I wanted to see more of him consistently being given consistent game time. It's now looking like he's probably going to be off as well. So, whether that's going to be a loan move, whether he's going to stay and be loaned out. But maybe it's just that now with the Charleston coming in, still don't know what's going to happen with Lutmoneva. It might just be that they've decided, look actually, you're not going to be part of our plans going forward. But yeah, I was more surprised to see his name in that list of players. What do you think, Shellam or Loneham? I'd like to see him loaned out because I do think there's a good player in there. Some of his link-up play and stuff like that. And he's such a young lad as well. We haven't seen enough of him. But again, I know it's a different position, but is it like a Davy classon where we can't keep saying? Because we don't see what happens in training either, do we? Last season particularly, he'd come in in little spells and he'd probably play pretty well. And then we wouldn't see him again for ages. And you've got to think, well, then what's going on in training? And maybe that's the same issue with Davy classon as well. Enough managers oversaw him to kind of think, actually, we don't fancy you. But I'd be happy to see him go out on loan, see how he does and potentially come back to the club. Because it's that old thing again, isn't it, of not wanting someone to leave and then see them blossom into this fantastic young talent across Europe. And that would just be so evident of late years. So, yeah, for me it'd be, you know, if anything, I'd rather see him be loaned out than actually sold. Yeah, I think you're right. We could get him to a Premier League club on loan. He provoked one or something. I think that'd be ideal. So going forward six days to go, centre back, you've already mentioned, totally agree with you to think the centre back. I think it will get sorted anyway, but it obviously is a massive area and very, very important, especially, you know, Williams gone as well. But I think, for me, it's a centre midfield player, I think. Yeah. You know, we've been linked with Rhys Oxford today from Westamshire, Younglad, which is great, getting young, talented players. But I feel as though we need, I feel as though we need someone with a little bit more experience. I mean, Musa Demboli has been mentioned, Spare's apparently ready to let him go. He would be perfect for me. He would. For now, it might only be a short term thing and he might demand big wages, probably would. But I think for the next two seasons he could be fantastic for Everton while we try and develop someone else for this. Definitely. And you know that the players you've just listed there as well that we've got rid of now, the wages they were carrying certainly weren't justified wages for what they offered us. But if it means getting a Demboli in, as you said, who for the next season or two, make that difference between us finishing four or five league positions difference. Cos it could be that important, you know. Then I think just get them in because as you said, I'm all for us bringing in these young players and watching them develop. And I think that's going to be something that we'll see a lot of with brands coming in. But for now we kind of just need to get a starter in someone that you can go right there in starting 11. And they're going to do a job. They've got Premier League experience. We know what we're going to get from them. And that could be, like I said, the difference between us maybe finishing 10th or 6th. I mean, it's early days. I have no idea what kind of position Everton are going to finish in next season. It's too soon to say. But yeah, I agree with you. I think a central midfielder is important as well because we don't have that fluidity. We still don't seem to have a midfield in a lot of ways. We've sorted down that left-hand side now as well. Relatively happy with our options going forward in that kind of front three, four. But it's this central midfielder who's going to make things happen. We've never really replaced a Ross Barclay. That's it. Earlier in the window, we were being linked with Ruben Lofter's cheek. And people like that who I thought that would be a perfect piece to the jigsaw. But yeah, it's a position that does need addressing. And as you say, it'd be nice to get someone in there that we know we can all rely upon and is going to go straight into that start in 11. Whether or not it'll happen, who knows? Because the time is ticking down, isn't it? It's ticking down. How many more do you think we'll get in then? I think two. I think we'll get another two. I think we probably need three or four. I think we need three or four. I can see two. I'm going to say three. Yeah, go on. I'm going to say three. I'd love four. I'm going to say three. Four. If you could say we're going to get four players in now, I think you'd look at that and go, look who you've got rid of, look who you've brought in. That's been a really good window. Two. But as I said before, you know, the centre half problem. I'm pretty, I'm always nervous because until it's done, you know, we say until we see them playing in that blue shirt on the pitch, then you're going to be nervous. But I think it's been that apparent, especially in the past, the previous two preseason friendlies that it has to be addressed. You know, we can't go into the season now without sort in that and bringing in a centre back. And I've got faith that they will do that, especially now Williams has gone as well. So, yeah. It's not like, it's not like they're not being linked with sense of defenders. So, you know that stuff is going on. Of course. You've just got to get it over the line. It's just the Sargas now as well. Like I'm getting increasingly bored of this yerimina thing. I think don't put all your eggs in one basket. If this lad is kind of holding out for a move to Barcelona, move to Barcelona, sorry, move to Manchester United or a team that's playing in the Champions League, then I think I hope and, you know, the way that Everton have done the business in this window has impressed me in some ways. Yes, the time aspect has been frustrating, but, you know, for Charleston, that nothing was being said about that. Then, all of a sudden, there's the rumours, and it's done. Dignay, it was all about Tierney a few weeks ago and stuff, and then we've gone out and got him, he's come out and said that, you know, we approached him two months ago, even the outgoers as well, like Davy Klasson, bang, that was done. So, I think there's probably a lot of work going on that we're not sure about, and I hope there is, because, as I say, the yerimina thing now and stuff. I'd rather see someone like Lysel's come in personally. I suppose it's getting them, isn't it? I mean, for all we know, yerimina is saying to Everton, I want to come, but Barcelona, the story today, one of the stories out is that, his uncle saying, you know, they need to sit down with Everton Barcelona and sort it out, because he wants to go, he's agreed to deal. So, it could be the clubs, people might turn around and go, we'll just pay it, we'll, I heard something that, he was quoted at 16 million before the World Cup. So, all of a sudden, he's 14 million. Double, yeah. So, you've got to look at value as well, and that one might rumble on, and his agent's playing a blinder, saying you might have won him, and everyone else wants him, and stuff like that. Lysel's would be fantastic, but I think he's talking up to 40 million for him. Again, and this is the thing, isn't it? You know, you will get fans saying, just pay it, just pay it, and to an extent, you know, I agree with that to an extent, I don't want to be bent over a barrel, and you know, 40 million for someone who was 16 million before scoring a couple of goals in the World Cup, as you said. Newcastle with my cashlier, then things like that, they're going to be, so yeah, and this is how we got into a lot of the mess in the first place as well, isn't it, last season? Just get him, get him, ah, pay him 120 grand a week, it doesn't matter if he's not going to play, just get him in, and that's something that Brands, when he came in and dressed and said, we need to get a lot of these wages off the books, on the social side, and you have a fan saying, oh, we're going to be penny pinching, and this, that, and the other, but at the end of the day, as much as I hate the term, it is a business, and you know, we can't just keep pissing money up the wall all the time, and so, we've got to get him in, but yeah, we don't want to be completely taking the piss out of at the same time. No, no, you've got to, listen, there's two ways of looking at it as fans, and you know, it is, you do just go, you know, well, just pay it. Cos it... I wanted Cair and Saini, and I was like, oh, and then you stop and you go, brang on y sech, the whole thing we're all moaning about was these players on these wages, and these transfer fees and everything, so there's got to be, brands has come in, and his remit is to get us almost self-sufficient, almost. You'd always need, you'd always need that little bit of wiggle room from a benefactor to go, you know, from like some of the sherry to go, go ahead, yeah, I'll back it, there's no problem. But you've got to also be self-sustainable, and that's what we should all want, we should all want us fans, we should all want us to be a little bit more prudent, but we still have to get the players, and the other thing as well, why some of these deals will take ages is, why would these players want to join Everton, me and Perth have done this on another video, why would these players want to join Everton? So if you're a Barcelona, you're Yeri Mina, you've just scored three goals in the World Cup, your stock is relatively high, and you've got an agent saying, well, you know what, my United want you, and I can get you to move to Chelsea or whatever, Everton are there and they've offered you what you want, but he's going to be going, well, try and get there first. Yeah, of course, and that makes sense as well, you know, this lad who's playing from Barcelona, from Colombia, he's got no, you know, I'm sure he doesn't have like Everton shirts and scarves at home, and that's the thing, I'd get me my dream move to Goodison Park, you can understand that, and if he's wanting to, people are still going to look at Manchester United, there's one of the biggest clubs in world football, they absolutely are, and he's got to be looking at them, thinking there's a chance that they might potentially challenge for the title next season, trophies and such, so then he probably is going to be pushing and not just Yeri Mina or other players as well, I think the best way we've got of bringing players in is to lure them in with the kind of project and the Bramley Mawr, and this is what we're trying to achieve, we've got the new director of footballing, we've got Masheery, we're a club that's moving in the right direction, do you want to be a part of this and move with us into Bramley Mawr and this new era kind of thing, that's what we've really got to try and lure players in with, get them to buy into what it is that we're trying to achieve, because it's not going to happen overnight, this is something that's going to take years. And there's got to be evidence of that, you see, it's fine if this was Silver, Silver second year, and if this was before, we fast forward 12 months time and haven't finished 7th, haven't finished 7th, the ring-aura, we were 2.3 points off 6th place and close, and had some decent results, you could say to players, listen, this is what we've done this last 12 months, and with you and with you and with you, we can then go to the next level up, we're in-aura, we've got this is happening behind the scenes, this is happening, players are looking go, you know what, I'll get on board here because I can see tangible, tangible things in front of me, where there's a thing some players at the minute would look and go, will the order 3rd man into the event in 12 months? You know, we used to say you're going to be here at Christmas, so you can understand that, which is why, and me and Pedda have said this, next week could be bedlam, not just for evidence, for a lot of players, because a lot of teams are going to get itchy feet, a lot of players are going to get itchy feet over the next 6 days, because as we kind of get into Sunday and Monday, a few days left, and then that, and now players can go abroad, and you might want to go abroad, English players aren't great at going abroad, or other players might be like, well no, because you're not going to sign, no you're not going to sell me after Thursday, because I'm in your periphery, so you need to get rid of me now, and they'll be trying to force that, so we could say a lot of that, and other people will be going, we need them, we need them in the centre back here, by Tuesday we need them in, so it could all be about to explode. And that's when the fees and stuff start getting higher and higher. And then it too blinks first, with some stuff isn't it, but quite clearly, we're in a position where we need to strengthen. Listen, as far as I'm aware and the jail is to say in it, there's a lot of stuff going on in those scenes and so, we've got to just ride it out to suppose, it's never going to be quick enough for us as fans ever. It's not, and I think when you take into consideration as well, the kind of hope and dreams that we've had shattered over the past couple of seasons, well really, from the first martiner season onwards has been, you know, we've got all our hopes up and we're a club going in the right direction and it's fallen over a couple of times and last season was just so hard as a fan to get through, you know, and I think now we just want, we just want to see things start happening but we've got to be patient and you know, myself included I've said from the start, I wasn't keen on Silver at first before we signed necessarily coming in but once we got him in, totally on board, totally on board with brands as well, fully got my back in now but it is just that nervous thing as a fan we care so much as well and you're like, okay well, when are we going to get because we can't go into this season with that pairing as the centre of so you start thinking well just get him done, get him done get the players in but I think they will as you said that they've got every reason to believe that there is a lot of work going on behind the scenes and we've kind of seen it with some of the deals that have been done already with the brains and incomins and yeah I've got faith that they will but it doesn't mean that you're not still going to get nervous but you've got to maintain I think there's a hangover and that's the problem, there's a hangover from last season and I think that's the problem and what you'd have to do, like I said it's never going to be quick enough for fans ever because you want them all done to you like the first but people are still moaning last year that we didn't buy on deadline and we brought eight players in last year now okay we didn't bring a centre forward in which is what we needed but even if we'd have bought a centre forward two weeks before people would have still moaned we didn't bring anyone in deadline there because that's what fans are like, it's new shiny that's what it is so we have to keep that in mind but if you can just use the left hand side as a test they've brought in two quality players for that left hand side and that's what they're trying to do we could go and buy a centre off today is he going to be better? they've got to be better than what we've got otherwise what's the point? because you may as well just promote Morgan Feany or you may as well just keep Matty Pennington and go he's back up and we've got Holgate and Jacks is still decent and Michael King might be good he might be terrible but we'll have a look at him we don't know until we're playing but they know what they're trying to do and like I said the way they've done the business so far we're right behind you so you'll do what you can because they want to make a splash of it Michael Silver wants to prove himself lost a lot of credibility didn't he over the last couple of seasons with what's gone on and I think he obviously is an extremely talented young manager as well and as you said this is his real opportunity to go right I'm in the Premier League got back in now because we are a huge club in the top flight and I think this is his biggest job yet and he's going to really want to make a success of things as I've spoken about as well the Bramley Mawr thing he's going to be dying to be the manager that takes evidence to that new stadium and yeah it's just a matter of having patience now and it's hard I can be a big hypocrite as well because one down be patient and then I'm sky news to everything where are these players and I think that just comes from being a fan and caring so much and you kind of panic and stuff but yeah as you said the business they've done in terms of the incumbents there's only been two but yeah those are players that are starters and they're both young they've got longevity you can see what they're trying to do you start to look at the team now Jordan Pickford because them Chelsea rumours can get in the big Nellie Shethamshire Jordan Pickford we love you JP so you've got like one of the best goalkeepers, young goalkeepers particularly in the world at the moment then we've got that good left hand side now Jenktoson going forward Walcott, Richarlison, Sigurdson you know Seamus Coleman Theo Walcott we've got a really good team of players it's just about getting those final pieces in place to take us into the season and going forward but yeah I think we have got to be patient and the other thing that's thrown us off I think has been the last two pre-season games really not good enough it is the friendlies and you can't read too much into them but I think that defence has been what's really kind of made us go we need to get this sorted because the season is only like a week away but yeah we'll be alright and as you said it's not just about going to Wolves and making sure we go there and get a win this is about this is going to take time this is going to take a few seasons this is going to take multiple transfer windows but as long as we can see tangible progress and that the team is going in the right direction then I think there's every reason to be as Evertonians kind of excited and positive about us going forward but yeah we want everything now though and we want everything yesterday I know I certainly do we've only got to wait six days on the 10th of August Friday the 10th of August if we haven't added any more Michael Keane will be will be showing the replays of him Leave Keane alone, oh my goodness I forgot you're his biggest fan I'm really not I just think he gets blame for everything you love him best I don't actually like I said if we can get better then I'm all for it absolutely anyway listen you that's it if you haven't subscribed thanks to Sarah if you haven't subscribed please do so only takes a second if you want more videos join us on page and thanks for watching see you later