 Welcome to ToffeeTV, it's the Everton News Daily, it's the 24th of May 2018. What has been happening today? Well, first of all, Sportpeza reported a few days ago that a friendly will be held between the winner of the Sportpeza Cup in Africa and Everton. It seems like now that game won't be played in pre-season, will be played at some time during the season. Now that's not really a big problem considering Everton don't have European football this season, it could be played mid-week, it could be played with an Everton 11 with some maybe senior players playing a half and squad players playing. I'm sure it'll be a fantastic occasion, whatever happens. Listen, this has happened before, I remember as a kid I went to see Everton play friendlies against likes of Bayern Munich and the likes of PSV Heinhoven. I remember watching Romario play for PSV in a friendly mid-week in November 1987, I think it was, or maybe in 1988 to celebrate the fact that Everton had just got Newford lights from Philips. PSV's obviously main sponsor, well they are the club of Philips. So it's happened before, so that could be happening, I don't know when that'll be happening, I'll be perfectly honest but it looks like that's what's going on. A players have been released by Everton today, a younger players including Tom Scully who was captain of the under 18s this season, it looks like he's going to get a move to Norwich, so good luck to him. Also Stephen Duke McKenna who was part of the traveling party that went to Limassol in early December for that last game in the Europa League, whichever month three and ill when Sam Allerlice wasn't even charged that day was he. Craig Shakespeare was in charge of that day, so they've been released today, so this always happens this time of year. I think, I don't think Everton have actually got any other players, well Robles is out of contract but I don't think they've got any other first team players that are out of contract this summer. Normally the release list comes out of players that won't be staying at the club and I think there's only Joe Robles that I can think is out of contract at the moment, so he looks like he's moving on to Gaddafi, so this might just be it, there might be some under 23s players that might leave the club as well, but I'm not sure who was out of contract. Obviously these players I think are coming into their final years now which would be interesting to see if any more contracts given out but for the first team I don't think there's anyone else but Joe Robles. Apparently Everton will have to fight if they want. The Ajax player Roma are interested in him as our Liverpool, he's been heavily linked in the last few days with Marcel Brands being confirmed at the club, a player apparently he admires but it looks like he's going to be on a lot of clubs lists this summer as I said including Roma and Liverpool, so if we want him we're going to have to move fast if we want to secure him, it'd be interesting to see what happens there. Another player we have been linked with in the last few days or even last few months, Besiktas midfielder, Ogizan, Ozzy Yaku, have I got that right? I hope I have, he's been very coy on his future saying that it's the doors open and all those things. Ever been linked with him lots of times, he's a big friend of Jank Tolson, that speculation won't go away so we'll have to wait and see whether Everton do make a move for him. Again all these stories of players from the last few months, who was scouting these players, was it under the old regime, was it the new regime that hadn't took over what was looking at these players, none of these players might be applicable because of the changes that have happened to the club and obviously the new manager which will be coming in very very soon so we'll have to wait and see. Marco Silva, he could become the Everton manager any day, any day it could just be dropped on us like that so we'll have to wait and see, there might be a couple of loose ends to tie up with the Wofford situation but that could happen any day now so be ready, be ready for when it drops, we'll be ready or toffee TV to reveal that and have a chat about it so be prepared for that. When he arrived in Washington last night he was pictures of him with the DC United hierarchy as we said yesterday and as we said previously, he wants to stay at Everton but it seems like with the blessing of with Everton that he can go to DC United but he's going to speak to Marcel Brands, he's going to speak to the new manager before deciding his future it seems whether he's got any part in that future, whether they want to stick around, we'll wait and see in the next few days and another player who has been linked with a move away which we didn't really want to talk about on this show because the the links were just crap but Lane Baines who is currently in LA, I think on a family holiday, I said he wants to fight for his place at Everton next season, wants to be at Everton next season, he's in his final year of his contract and wants to be at Everton for that next year, I don't know whether people were there was mischief making or whether someone had found out that maybe Everton weren't prepared to let him go, there's a lot of talk of people, high enders, high high earners who won't be used next season being allowed to leave the club or it might just be the fact that because he was in LA people just put stories out there, it happens it happens all the time people put two and two together to create a story, apparently he's happy that I'm wants to fight for his place at Everton next season which is fantastic news, more more well another story again this is a bollocks story I really want to talk about but a certain newspaper the same newspaper that came up with that story I've said today there's a massive rift in the dressing room between Nias and Tom Davies which just sounds like auto bollocks, the people at that newspaper are very very close with Sam Alladice, one of them wrote his autobiography and if defended them as much as possible during the last few weeks because obviously they're quite close to them so they've put these couple of stories out, Tom Davies has always been very pally with Umarnias since the time they spent together in the under 23s and there was a video last month of Umarnias' birthday with Tom Davies being at the birthday party that was shared on Garnagay's Instagram and Tom's there so unless this fallout has happened very very quickly this story was saying that there's a massive split and I haven't seen your players behind Tom Davies and they want Umarnias sold well if that was the case they've done really really well of hiding that as players and done really really well of keeping that away from the press before that it just seems like a load of bollocks to stay up stay up trouble forever and by people who just clearly don't like us well guess what we don't like you because you're a gang of dickheads so do you have it let's put that one to bed hopefully anyway tomorrow's Friday happy days for all we'll be back with the news daily we'll catch you then