 Welcome to ToffeeTV. Everton have signed the Marty Gray from a Biolaver Cuisine. A winger. We wanted a winger. We wanted a winger from Biolaver Cuisine. Yeah, exactly. And we got a winger from Biolaver Cuisine. What are your thoughts, Paz? He's not the winger I wanted from Biolaver Cuisine. He's not the winger you wanted. No, I want it. I want it daily. Yeah. The Marty Gray was down the list. But no, I think, listen, for one and a half million quid, Bioclose, I think it's a good sign. 25, he's hit and miss, I think, is probably the way to put him. Inconsistent. He is very inconsistent. He's a player who went up Birmingham City. Everton were trying to get him. Steve Walsh was at Everton before he went to Leicester. Yeah, before he went to Leicester from Birmingham. Everton were interested in him and he chose to go to Leicester. He's someone who's promised a lot, not really delivered the times. But he's different to anyone we've got at the club in terms of he's quite direct, running with the ball and can beat him on. It's up to him. He was 25 a few weeks ago. It's up to him to get his consistency level up and to fit into whatever Rafa Benitez wants him to. It's on him now. He's left Leicester. He went to Leverkusen on an 18-month deal with a £1.5 million release clause. Everton have triggered it. And he's wanted to come. So the owners is on him now to perform regularly, I guess. Yeah, I suppose he gives us something we haven't got. And you are right. We were all hoping and this thing could still happen that a big-name winger could come to Everton. We do need to pad out the squad. I understand it's not the most exciting deal in the world. Maybe people will have been expecting someone of a higher calibre to come in. We've been linked continuously with different wingers in the last two or three seasons. I think for the early part of Benitez's reign at Everton, I think he's just trying to bring players in that fit how he wants the team to play. He's already mentioned Dominic Carven-Lewin and the role he plays in the team. It's about getting consistency into Dominic Carven-Lewin. And what we saw last season is just a lack of that, a lack of players being able to do it. You know, Wobby, when he was on the right-hand side, was offering very, very little. You know, Hamas Rodriguez, when he started, and the right was always drifting in. And then you were relying on your full-backs. The shame's common wasn't up to it. In fact, there was nobody else. It was, you know, we know from last season, you looked at the Benz and you were looking, you might see Bernard there or at times of Wobby, like I said, but there wasn't enough consistency. So I think for someone like him, for the deal it is, for the money we've paid, it makes sense, you know, being a £10 million deal that I could understand, you know, you could sit there going, this is ridiculous or massive wages or anything. I think what this is, this is another deal, what we've seen recently, of a player coming in on our teams, rather than their teams. I think it's a player who, like you just said there, needs a chance, needs, at an age where probably if things have failed in his moves so far, needs a chance now. Evan have always, certainly for the, maybe, you know, the last 20 odd years or so, have accepted these kind of players in and give them a chance when we need, especially in the David Moyes area. And a lot of them went on and did really, really well, you know, and hopefully it's the same for him. You know, it's a big chance for him. Biggest club he's ever played for, you know, and he's got to take it with two hands, and if he does, then people will embrace him because there's nothing better than the fans love flying wingers, they love players you put crosses in for number 9s. We love that. That's our style. So, yeah, that is our style. I'm thinking of Rafa Benises is trying to embrace that by looking at what he's got, the good plays he's got, how can you get the most out of them? Someone like him, I think, can help that if he finds that form, finds that consistency. Evertonians love players who go 1v1 with people and will take them on. We've always loved it, you know, certainly. All my life watching Evan from a kid has been, we've always identified with that wide player who faces people up. You know, we've been to Trevor Steven and moved on, and Trey Kinshelskas and going through it. We love the fact that, you know, even Vandermeider at times, there I say it, the odd time, people used to like that, you know, it was a lot less fleeting, obviously, than the Vandermeider. But when you're going through, they're the kind of players, we love Richie Arles, and he goes 1v1 with people, he gets people on the edge of the seat. There hasn't been enough of that, of late. But again, it's just a low risk. He's a player who, like I said, was highly rated. Everton wanted him. Looked like he was going to go on to big things. Played 133 games for Leicester in five years, so he's not, you know, he's not been a success at Leicester, really, for him and then he moved on. I think 10 goals in that time. But he is someone who faces defenders up on the commit defenders. And if you've got people like Dom, they call the loon in the middle and he can start putting the ball over there. We've seen, when we've got Luchadine on the ball, how effective Dom can be. We've seen James from the other side, Hammers, like you said. We need people to stretch the fences. We don't have that. And he really, he picks you up and runs everything. We'll run people for everything and we don't have any of that when you look along that squad. You look and go, who else does that, really? Now, once our signs end, there's another player who's come in, who kind of does that as well. But after that, a woby, there's a link player. Bernard looks like he's going to go up the door anyway. So there is a death of that in our squad. Yes. I want Bailey, or Diabi, or Chukoweezy, or someone like that who is direct and will run up people because that gets you off the edge of your seat. It also gives you the opportunity to transition quickly, especially if you're playing on a counterattack. You don't want everyone slowing the game down. And those players, maybe, late in the window if we've got the room and the money to do it. But this fella was available now, evidently, took the opportunity to get him. And he's had a great age. Listen, he's got to do something with his Korean and he might not. But if you're him, you're thinking, I didn't really establish myself unless there are some good signs and another not so good. And I moved on. You know, moved on to Bailey because it was a new stage in my career and it hasn't really worked out there either. I've got a chance now to come to Everton. There's an opportunity for me to get in the team at a big club that's signing goal places. And I'm going to take it with two hands. And maybe, just maybe, we'll be the right club for him. We might not. But at one and a half million, it's a low outlay for a player who is a squad player. And ooh, we could even flip. If he has a decent season, you can flip him. If you've got other options and teams might come in for him and a 10 million for a 26-year-old next summer, might be a good business for someone. But if he does well, we won't want him to go away. Yeah. Well, as I said, it's just one of those wait-and-see. You know, for the outlay, like you said, it's not a massive amount of risk in it for the fees you pay nowadays. And you're right. You get him back. You get, if you get just a little bit of consistency at him, or you get him doing something simple, beating the man and putting a crossing, you know, and you're getting that level of consistency. You're getting that little bit of pace up the field to help us break someone who worked hard for the team. You pad the squad out. And if it means that players who are on a lot more money now can leave and there's not a gap in the squad, then that helps as well. Because there's always been this thing of sell him, him, him, him, him, him. But people went, yeah, how are you going to, how are you going to replace them? Well, maybe that's what we're doing. We're just replacing them with solid players. Premier League experience that we feel like we can do a job. We'll ask the wait-and-see to, you know, the first of September, whether they are the first judge, whether they've got competition, whether there's going to be, whether this is allowing room in that budget for, you know, the real quality to come in, maybe it right back, maybe another winger or centre forward, whatever. We'll wait-and-see. It's still obviously very, very early. Well, you know, in terms of the chance of it getting started, it's early days, we're padding up the squad and we'll see what happens. Everything's relative, isn't it? Right now, people might be disappointed and go, this is where we're up to, this or that, we're doing this, we're doing that. By the end of the window, if you've had a couple of real quality, you'll go, you know what? They were really smart signs then because we've got rid of this player on 140 grand a week and we brought one on, say, 50, I don't know what it is, but say it's 50, we'll straight away, you're 90 grand off, you're saving the budget, you're getting cut down for your wages, which we want to do, freeze you up elsewhere. If you leave these players to go to other clubs, add these to the players, you'd say, man, then go, why didn't we get it? Maybe just one and a half million. These might be the Robles, Coneys and De La Feuze, and we're waiting for De La Cacu, the Barry and the McCarthy. Who knows, you know what I'm saying? That's always a positive way to look at it. That's a good way to look at it. So let us know your thoughts in the comments on Greg. Are you excited by it? Are you just like, yeah, it's just another decent little sign-in. Let us know your thoughts in the comments. Make sure to give this video a like, subscribe if you haven't already. 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