 Welcome to Toffy TV. Everton have made a signing. They have signed Ben Godfrey from Norwich City. Baz has joined me all the way from Goodison Park. Had just seen Godfrey, ti'w awg yn rhael. Ne, dyst wnaeth y sydd wedi'i bwyslwch yn rhael. A yna Goodison to compete in some kind of e-sports event by the way? Yeah, that's what I mean to hear from. Ben Godfrey, this has happened quite rapidly, hasn't it? We know we've been touted a couple of days ago, but Everton seemed like they really, really wanted this player. They had a bit knocked back and then suddenly they had a bit accepted and this has happened really, really quickly. We've been linked with bringing players in on loan and players from abroad, but Everton must really, really want this player to go after them so quickly. Yeah, obviously Everton have been looking for a centre-back, haven't they? Early in the year it seemed, like the Gabrielle stuff was January, I think February, so it's clear Everton wanted a centre-back. That obviously didn't happen due to Covid and whatever else changing the way the payments were or whatever, never moved away from that. Then I think Everton decided maybe to just pursue the loan deal for a centre-back while we assessed Jarrah Branthwaite's development or whatever and for Coyote or more he was quickly identified as the man he wanted. That looked like it was going to happen. Chelsea did what they did last season really and the deal wasn't able to get done. The lad wanted to come and Chelsea seemed to have changed their mind on it, which they're entitled to do of course, and it now looks like Rudiger is going to go out of their centre-back. So Everton had then had to identify next and I think Ben Godfrey will have been on Everton's list anyway. You don't just look for someone that last minute and get it done quickly. So obviously Godfrey was one of the ones they'd looked at. Others have been talked about. John Clay Tadebo, who's a barser of course, was strongly linked. But Everton feel as though this kid is the man to make an investment on. 22, 23 in January and therefore strong, athletic, good in the air, go past her at the ball, likes a tackle, English centre-back play for the 21s, the England under the 21s. So Everton have identified a good young player who's also played in midfield, defensive midfield for Shrewsbury and they've decided he's the one to go for and I've got the deal done. I think the plus points are clearly like you just mentioned, there's a young lad physically, he looks up to it, we've seen the players so far who've been in the squad this season. The players who've been involved and the players who haven't been involved like Tom Davis, they all very much seem to fit a physical profile and this lad comes in as well and he's had that year. He looks very, very fast and there's a video going round on social media of him getting back in one game and the speed he gets back is just incredible. That's obviously something we're lacking at the moment, that kind of pace at the back to help us play higher up the pitch and something to get us out of a little bit of trouble. But also you mentioned you can play centre midfield as well and we spoke a few times during the summer about bringing players in and what age the after being, the idea of bringing in someone like Arlen who's 29, some people would frown upon that. But if you're bringing someone at this age that you can teach how to play in both positions, that's a massive asset to the club and if they can, they can have a player like that and it means that you can get rid of a couple of players because you've got one who can fill both roles and you've got other good players in the squad. That can only help us going forward, can't it? It's such an important thing at the moment is cutting down on this squad, getting rid of players that are not needed. So to have a player of that age you can fill in those roles and hopefully build into one of the roles more firmly going forward. But to have someone right now who's got that premium experience, it just seems huge to me that we're doing it on a twin track. Yeah, definitely. I mean we spoke about this with Andy when we were bringing in players over a certain age, it's fine and it's worked brilliantly for us so far. Let's be honest, the three of them have been our three top performers really along with Domin, Mittialys and so far so that's worked brilliantly. But if you're bringing those younger players as well at the same time it alleviates any kind of pressure on that and takes away that worry that you're building an older squad. And this is a kid who was baking strong like I said but is very mobile so he can do the two roles yet he may feel like he's better at centre back and that's what he wants to concentrate on. But then we've got that with Mason Holgate haven't we? We spoke about Holgate before dropping into that midfield area if need be and it enables that what we've spoke about regularly. You know 31 pros at 32 we've got three you know you're trying to cut those numbers right down and if Carlo Anzillotti can cut them down because this kid does the job of two then that's exactly what you want because that helps you keep a harm on your squad. And B you've got a player who is versatile and that's what you always need. You always need versatility in the squad because working with a smaller squad like I've just said keeps everyone together and just from a financial aspect you're paying one fella to do two jobs as opposed to two. I guess that's just basic fine and basic economics really if you can do it. And also you're paying someone at that age you're probably going to get them for less of a feed and someone who's less of a wage and someone who's a 27, 28. You've got someone you can tie down you're tying them down and actually you're tying them down for the best part of the career not the latter part of the career so that's a huge part as well. And also it gives us options and I know a lot of people you mentioned before with some more in some of the loan deal a lot of people thought we would go for a loan deal because we do have three senior centre backs. We do have Banthwaith, we do have Lewis Gibson on loan. They all seem, all the young players seem like good prospects going forward. But then at the end of the season you've got a situation where you've got Jeri Mina with two years left of his contract. Does he sign a new one or do Evan look to offload them at an age where he can still make a decent price on them? So Evan have got to consider all those factors haven't he? I know Michael Keynes just signed a new contract as well so. But you've got to look at all the angles haven't you and not leave it to the last minute and I know early on this season when, early on some of them we were after Gabriel. A lot of people question why we went for Gabriel then a lot of people question why we left the Gabriel deal. And this it does seem kind of strange that we're paying around the same amount of money that we would have paid for Gabriel. Can you see any rhyme or reason why Evan haven't gone for Gabriel and yet have gone for this kid? I guess it all depends on money at the time doesn't it. Maybe Evan of the pastings have been released a little bit just because of the slight changes in the reporting year. Maybe Norwich are happy to take, I don't know, repayments of much less than what Lill wanted for Gabriel maybe it's that kind of stuff. Maybe Lill wanted a big lump up front and Evan were trying to get other deals done. I don't know is the reality of that. Evan clearly stepped away from a deal because he felt as though maybe Lill were using or banging other clubs into it. So I don't really know to be honest. And ultimately when we were going for Gabriel he wasn't a high priority because we're talking about centre backs being high priorities because we thought midfield was. Now we've got midfield sorted like you just said there maybe we got the players we wanted to get for less money than we thought we were going to get them for. So that's opened up a little bit and who knows what's going to happen over the next few days. You know just talk already of players leaving and I'm sure some will and this might open the door. I don't know it. Personally I sort of think this could be the thing that sees Tom Davis leave the club if this kid can play centre midfield right now. Listen we'll wait and see whether that happens but like we've already said he can play a couple of positions and that might mean someone in midfield gets released and he can make a little bit of money on them and get half of the money we're paying for this kid back in one go. Yeah definitely that's what you've got to consider every angle of me and this fella's 22, 23 in January so he's had a great age. Like I said being captored under England under 21 you'd look at the physicality of him, the athleticism of him and think that if he does well he'll be captured at full level as well which all boosts in. Evan I've got to look at trimming that squad we know they have and that's bringing a player in who can do a couple of jobs that's what it does but it also sends a message of a profile of a player that Evan wants and Evan is looking at and it's the right kind of profile and that athleticness that we've bemoamed almost in the past that Evan haven't had. You now look at the likes of Adelaide de Coray, you look at this fella, you look at a whole gig Dominic Alvedlun with Charles and they're all that profile of athletic lads who can get up and down a pitch and work hard. We saw it last year that lack of athleticism in Everton squad particularly in the midfield was something that cost us daily and Carlo Antillotti's come in and spoke about it from almost day one really. I've had addressing the need for that and he's done it and this and Everton, I think Everton have done fantastic business this summer and really do, it looks really good and you mentioned something that was really important there. We've got players in without spending the money, we just learned a few weeks ago the Hammers Rodriguez didn't cost a penny, now okay wages are bigger than people have reported and of course he'll cost money in a different way but rather than an outlay of 20 million, 25 million for this player in that position, we're just talking about covering his wages so that money then doing it the way we do it without any financial knowledge really is we haven't spent that 20 million on him so we can spend it on him and maybe you're right maybe he'd had money stocked up, I mean there'll be a couple of people who are human that haven't bought someone else today without selling but no no I'm talking about, we've seen it in, we've seen it with the echo, the echo quants are there not buying anybody, it's all, so obviously the club are doing it a particular way and well obviously we're backing themselves to get players out the door maybe before the end of the report, yeah next year but for me I think it's a fantastic piece of business especially with obviously the likes of Niels and Kungku as well who's come in and look excellently so Everton have done very very well this summer with recruitment. Do you think just before we finish, do you think this could see Michele Branford maybe move after the deadline on Monday maybe go to a championship club, possibly Norwich if they talked about that, could you see him going somewhere for the rest of the season just because we don't really need him as much now? Yeah I do, whether or not it happens in this window and by this window I mean right up until I think it's the 19th of October when the domestic window shuts, I think he's still two weeks away from playing so Everton might want to keep him for that but I think really if he doesn't go in this window I think he'll definitely go in January because it makes no sense really keeping him. At the club without giving him games he's played four Premier League games, he's played only half an hour, he lasted against Solfer before picking up his injury but in general he's played games, he's trained with the first team and his development at 19 means more games and I know he has been muted with a move maybe to Norwich City on loan Dwi'n gwybodaeth eich cael ei gennym am ddiddordeb ar y llyfr yn ysgol iawn, byddwn yn gwneud ein collfynol, a dwi'n gweithio llyn i'r clwbau chyfeithio'r rhai o'n iawn i'n gwybod yn sgwrsio'n opto, a'r chyfeithio'r ceisio'n gweithio'n iawn i'n ddiddordeb yn ysgrifennu. ac mae gennym yma'n gwneud o'ch holl gwybod ar gyfer y mae'r wrthglwyddau cerddwyr, nad yw'n gwneud eich tref, mae ei wneud yn cael glimdodd. Nid ond, nid yw eisiau ni'n gorffod o Ben Godfray, Cymru, i fynd i, Jack Reaver, ffondi'r tynnu, Cymru, angen i'n gallu gwneud ar y rhaid i'r teimlo beth. Mae'r nhw'n gobeithio galliyd yn gwneud, Jack yw'r digwydd yn cerddwyr, i'r cyflawn ffordd ac mae'n gilydd chi am bod y cyfle a'r cyfnod o'r ffordd i chi'n gweithio'r ffordd. Felly, mae'n iawn am y gweithio'r ffordd a'r hynny. Dyna'r bwysig o'r ffordd i chi'n gwneud yn ystod, ond rhai i'r peth oherwydd mae'n rhai i'r ymgyrch yn oed i ni i ymddangos edrych gyd wedi'i cael ei ddweud o'r ymddangos, a'i gydweud o'r ymddangos yn y 19. Dwi'n cael ei gael i'n gynnig i'n gwneud eich gael eu gweithredu, dyma'n gwybod i chi'n gwneud y video, diolch yn ddigon o'r ysgrifennu, ydych chi'n cael ei ddweud o'r gweithredu, dyma'n ddim yn ei wneud eich gweithredu, dyma'n ddigon o'ch ddweud o'ch ddweud o'r gweithredu. felly mae'n gwneud o'r newydd, mae'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio.