 Welcome to Toffy TV, joined by Cam from the Mighty Bru, just to have a little chat about priorities, basically it's where the players are back, coming towards the end of the first week of pre-season. Everton have lost with Charleston and a few other players have gone as well, these contracts were up and we've only brought James Tarkovsky in at the moment at this time of recording. People will obviously worried the way the season finished, Everton just staying up by the skin of the teeth and people wanting an influx of new players, but at the moment we've only got free transfer James Tarkovsky. In your opinion, what's the priority right now for you, the first priority that Everton needs to address? I think in a signing sense in terms of bringing in a player that's got to be replacing Charleston, replacing the goals that he brings, his attitude, his effort. We simply can't afford to not replace him. We established earlier we don't score enough goals as it was with him in the team, never mind taking his goals away from the side. I think we'll really, really struggle if we don't replace him correctly next season in a whole, in a wider sense. Putting a structure in place ensures that we don't go through what we've been through over the last couple of seasons because of gross mismanagement of finances from the previous five seasons, six, five, six seasons. Obviously, that's a little bit more of a long-winded thing, but we need an infrastructure ultimately in the club in terms of the type of players you bring in, the profile, the identity of the football club. For me, at the moment, you could say midfield and bringing in another centre midfield and another number six, but I just can't look past replacing bringing in a goal scorer in that you know. Obviously, there's no guarantees in football that you can look at and go right here's the man. That's going to score 10 goals next season and replace what ultimately we've lost in Rashardson. I know some people will say, but Delhi might have a different season or Dom will have a different season because he'll be injured E3, but I just, even if Dom has a great season, I still think we need to replace what ultimately we've lost in Rashardson, which is, as I said, not only his goals, but his effort, his heart, his determination, his desire, all of that, and it'll be difficult because those types of players are big money players and want to be playing for the top clubs in the world, so maybe we just need to bring in a sheer goal scorer, but that's for me at the front of it. That's where you're at. It is difficult, isn't it, because obviously, you know, Dom had that injury rabbit season when we managed five goals, so it'll be a huge goal that kept us up at the end, and we have lost 15 goal contributions from Rashardson out the side. Dom, if he has a, you know, it's kind of like normal season that he was building up to before that injury is 15 goals, which is fine, that's good, but we still need the goals anyway. We need more goals even with the pair of them when they were both playing well. So it is difficult. That is one that you do look at and think, well, a huge hole's gone on the side here. Who's going to replace that? There's probably nobody in the squad who can do that. You know, Dom had a great, had a good season, you know, one and a half million quid had a good season, but he ain't going to get double figures, I don't think. He had a good start and then he tailed off. Well, he did, but he got injured as well, and there was a few things. Anthony Gordon had a really good breakout season, but is he really going to get 10 goals this season, 11 goals? We don't know. So you do have to look around and think, who can we get who's going to score those goals? You know, man, you will, Dennis has been mentioned in some quarters. He got 10 and six last year, so more than a tial of some goal contributions, but that was his only season. He's put a double figures in. He was as a double figures every year. He's been there ever. So Dennis could, he could go on and get 12 this year and do better, but it could be an outlier. It could be six, five, whatever. So it is difficult, you know, marmando Brose is one who has been mentioned and a lot of people are like, we look interesting. And he does look like a player he'll develop, but he got nine in all competitions for Southampton last year, so it's not like you could go. Well, he's guaranteed a double figures because realistically, who, who is out there who ever can go and get a guarantee you double figures? That's the question, isn't it? There's certainly not for the money that we've got available to spend. And the position that we finished in last season means that there'll be a lot of players that will have offers from Everton and other teams and will likely look at other teams because of their situations. And, you know, maybe we will have to take a, you know, settle for somebody like a Brose or a Dennis who there is no guarantee of and maybe they haven't hit those double figures and hope that with the coaching and just with age and stuff like that. You know, they can get to that level of visharlism. Ultimately, visharlism is a 60, 70 million pound player, really. And if we divide our own way and to replace that, you would have to go out and buy a 50, 60 million pound player and we haven't got the ability to do that. So it is about finding a player that I suppose is a rough gem, if you like. I know Dennis has got Premier League experience, so he probably cost a decent amount, same with Brose as well. But I said I just can't look past that whole, that visharlism. Because you're right, we were sitting here when Dom and visharlism were on top form saying we still need more goals, we still need, you know, to fill those spaces. And you look at some of the goals in the games visharlism scored in last season, the Chelsea game, which ultimately was the catalyst for, I don't know, obviously the fans and stuff with the difference maker last season, but that Chelsea game was the game where it all sort of changed for us. And you need somebody that can step up in a big game. It's not just those goals, it was everything visharlism, he stepped up when it mattered. He worked hard, he battled, he fought for his teammates, he could see he played with his heart on his sleeve and that resonated with fans and therefore built the atmosphere. But also he scored in important moments, important games, he took chances when we needed them to. So where does that, there's been a bit of a criticism of Dom in the past is when he's had clear chances you would call, he hasn't taken them. So I think that's got to be updated. The problem with Everton at the moment is naturally because of the season we've just had, we've got a number of priorities, there's five or six things that people could sit there and say, well what about this, what about this, and no one would be wrong saying that's main priority. You know, another midfielder or two would be well updated as well. But yeah, I just think losing that, we were relying heavily on Dom. Not just Dom, if Dom had had four seasons like he did under Carlo and then got injured last season, you could say well if he stays injured he's free, then we'll be all right. Dom had a really good season under Carlo, he had decent season the season before, all right season the season before and then he had last season. I'd say he's had one really good season at Everton, so we're hoping that he gets back to that. What I would say is in the other seasons he's been fit, he's always improved every year, his goals have gone up more so. No, you are right, not like he's Harry Kane and he's 25 a season, but he was improving each year and he had scored three and three at the start of the season, so I think if he'd have stayed fit he'd have hit 15 easily. I mean he got five in it in what was Larry Paul season for him, fitness wise. Do you think he shoots the way we play? Well that's the different thing isn't it? That's for Frank Lampard to sort out. Now you've got a lad there who's fabulous in the air. He's gone enough to play around. And he's good in and around the penalty spot if you get the right balls into the right areas for him, albeit that's what Carlo did. Braffa Benitez, as much as we didn't want him, identified that Calvert Lunes are different makers so get lots of crosses into the box. Unfortunately for Benitez he had them for four or five games and that was it. So Lampard apparently loves him and wants to keep him, so if you're thinking like that then you think he's going to be important. So it's maybe more angled balls with flicks, get crosses in. And that's what I find really interesting is it looks like Everton's shaping up to play three at the back and it's what variation you play at that. If it's three, four, three, then it's two midfielders again. That's another priority. Stop playing two midfielders. Exactly, but then it's three forward. So it's a wing, you know, with the wide players, so Dennis then would probably fit that. If it's three, five, two, and he's going, now we need three men in that midfield and he's going to try and play Deli off the home if he was to get Brosier and played in with Dom and the Calvert Loon and the others are fighting for those three midfield players, then that's a little bit different because Brosier is a damn runner mid the ball. Dom is a flick getting behind or thinking on his chest. It opens up the way we play a little bit. So I think it's dead interesting. I agree with you by the way. I do think we definitely have to look at goals coming in. We can't just go, well, you know, Dom will get 15, 14 or 18, because Rodi Arluson got 10 and he's gone, but Dom, he can't be like that. Everyone's got to improve. There's no goals in this side. We need everyone we're bringing in has to have that goal threat. It's why I thought he may look at Sinistera, who leads have just got 23 goals last season from wide positions or be in a weaker league, but he's scored a lot in the Europa League or the Conference League and stuff. I thought we might look at him, and we have to go on from there. So it'll be interesting. I still think the midfield is crying out for a little bit of it. And there's someone who's going to sit in front of the back four and break everything up, or someone who's going to be able to knit everything together. I think it's crying out for creativity. You look at the last 12 months, we've lost our three most creative players, ultimately one through something completely un relative, but then two through being sold. And all of a sudden we went from having not only Dominic Alvarone and Richard Alton fit, but three players in that team that could create for them. That could at any point put a crossing for Dom or put a free ball into Richie. Now we've got none of that and we had no Dom. So I still think we need that number six and athletic player who can sort of, as you said, be sitting in front of the defence. But I also think we're crying out for somebody that when they've got the ball you're thinking you can make something happen here because you've got Gordon who can do it, he's only very young and very, very raw. Gray, again on his day can do, but he was many times last season where he got the ball and he wasn't doing anything with it. It does all depend on the way in which we want to play ultimately because if the system is to get balls into Dominic Alvarone, then Gray and Gordon, if they're going to be a part of this team, have got to learn to be able to cross the ball more often because as much as I like players taking players on and I like Gordon's ferocity and stuff like that, if you've got Dominic Alvarone in the box and you've got the ball in a wide position, last the crossing, it's better than to have to take four players on and losing it and they go up the other end. So ultimately we might need to play with the quote on quote number 10 creative spraying balls because we might rely on the wide players to get the ball in. It just depends on the way in which he wants to play. How would you play? I would play with Dominic Alvarone as the focal point and with crosses into the box of Dominic Alvarone in whichever way I have to... You must have a preferred formation camp. I don't. Because everything's shouting at me for free in the back but I don't like free at the back either because I just think notoriously, we're not very good with free at the back. I just think it over-credits it. OK, now I've got Tarkos, it might be a little bit different but certainly with Key and Allgate go free me in it. Whenever we play free at the back, one of them had a stinker. One of them didn't know where they were meant to be or what they were meant to be doing. So four, three, three then? Yeah, but then as I said, you'd be having to coach your wire players into saying, listen, if you can go round the outside of a man, great. Or if you're looking at him thinking, I can take you, sound. But if you do that two or three times in the game and it's not happening and you've got a six foot four fel in the box who's one of the best editors of a football in the world, put the balls into him. I mean, I've got a big issue with our set piece takers as well. I just don't think we're very good at set pieces. Corner at Everton may as well be a goal kick to the other team because we're just not very good at them whatsoever but look at what happens when we do put a good ball in, Gray put a good ball in for Calvert Llewyn and it was mad at that goal because I remember sitting there and saying to me, Dad, so long as he put a good ball in here, we've won this game because you just know Dominic Calvert Llewyn's getting on with everybody. So that's got to be, especially now that Richard Ellison's gone, that's got to be the focal point now, was get through him, get it in the air because he will beat most people in the air and he's not going to the ball, play to a sense ultimately. Obviously he needs to improve in other areas but play to a sense and yeah, it probably is line enough for a 5-3 at the back isn't it but I just, I don't know, maybe it would be differently at Tarkovski, I just don't trust that current group prior to Tarkovski to be able to do that but that also relies on your wing backs to be good enough going forward and Michael Enco, you know, done well settled in first season, his goal against Lester was obviously fantastic but you'd need more from him. What Lucadim was bringing you in the balls into the box, Patterson obviously we haven't seen enough of so it'll be interesting. We need a lot though don't we, we definitely need them in the field there and then you're looking at it thinking I can't watch Evan play to in my field because I just can't watch Evan play to in my field and then your options dwindle at this point. Maybe the priority is just 4-3-3 and then we'll go for him there but who knows I mean Frank Lampardle know what he wants to do and we'll have to see how it plays out. Cam, the priority right now is replacing with Charleston so let us know what you think in the comments section below, what? I know we've got a few issues and people will go this, this, this and I'll accept all of them but if you just right now what's the next person you want to do the door? What position is it to replace with Charleston's goals? Cam makes great points, there's no goals in this team so we have to replace it. Make sure you give the video a thumbs up, subscribe if you haven't. Check out Cam on the Mighty Blues as well and if you want more videos including daily live videos and lots of exclusive videos sign up to become a premier member the link is in the description and the QR code is on the screen now. Thanks for watching, see you later.