 Welcome to Toffy TV. It is the match preview. Tottenham Hotsbair vs Everton, the first of the season, but it doesn't feel like that long ago that we were doing this very match preview. That's how short obviously the pre-season's been with everything going on. Yeah, good to be back. It feels a bit better now, doesn't it? Yeah, it does. We're getting the new players in and stuff. It's a little bit brighter than what it did. But yeah, third year on the run we've been away on match day. It's not great. Nice to start at home and hope that you'll win the first game, isn't it? It's a tough game, very tough game, but it's tough to Everton to go there and do the job. Yeah, as you said there, it's not only easier away, but with having no fans in the stadium as well. It feels a little bit like obviously when we came back. It is still obviously locked down football. We don't know when we're going to be going back in stadium. So that makes you feel like... It still feels like to me that it's not real football because we're not there very much so. But the players have got to shake that off, haven't they? The players have got to be right at it. I know for us we've only had a couple of pre-season games. Spears have had a few more, but you've got to be back into it straight away. The thing about it is that first game of the season, it always throws up a bit of a strange game. And certainly with clubs as well, with the window not being shut, business is still to be done so. It doesn't feel like... It's never everything's on the first game anyway, but I feel like for this game, certainly, it's a case of just getting down there and going through the motions a little bit because it feels like a little bit of an extension to the pre-season. Can't be like that though, can it? It's a Premier League game. Point of that stake and we've got to go and we can't think like that as a football. Spears won't be thinking like that. It's the professional sportsman. We said this coming back into lockdown only. It was very new then, but now they're experienced in that. They had nine games of that kind of football. They've also had pre-season games of that kind of football. So the players are used to that now. And it's about producing results. We can sit here and go. It doesn't feel like us. It doesn't feel like because we're not in the stadium, it's not feeling real. It is real. You're right, first days are always a bit weird and it can be a bit weird. You've got to try and hit the ground run. And this one is even more strange, like you say, show pre-season international games last week instead of, so even Spears lost at Wafford last Saturday, but quite a few plays missed. We played half a team around to Preston. There's a lot of clubs up and down the country. I've had the same thing. So it will be a bit different, but we've just got to be straight on. Of course, that's a tough shot. Yeah, but what I was sort of like, hey, that, though, it's not only is you've got all the situation with the Covid and empty stadiums. It feels like going back to what it used to be where we used to always say when the window was open, it didn't feel like the season really got going in terms of settling down till the transfer window is actually shut, which was after that first international break. So that's what I mean by that. I'm not saying teams won't be right at it, but because there is a little bit of give and take because of players and people coming in and people not necessarily knowing where they are. There could be people on the bench for us on Saturday that might be at the club in three weeks' time. It just don't get me wrong. We've got to be straight at it. It's a professional game of football. It's the Premier League. It's back. It just doesn't feel. To me, it just doesn't still feel like it's as a fan. Like a normal season. Like it's the real thing. Now and now, it isn't a normal season. It isn't a normal season and the players, luckily the players have played games already. But we've got three new signings. We're trying to up our game massively. The manager, I think, now will be... He's not going to let excuses ride now if there was any excuses. I think he now, by bringing the three players in that we have, he's looking at it and going, that's the level I need you all at. And if you're not, I've got time to bring in a couple more. Whether they be loans or whatever. The end of the season or the end of the season, we played it out. He'd probably tolerated a lot of performances because he had to. But now that's over and done with. We've got players back into the squad. We've got other new players like John Joe coming back. You know, there's a bit more room for manoeuvre now. And players have got to be on it as far as I'm concerned. As far as everyone's concerned, I think. The biggest issue ever in our last season was the midfield. I think everyone knows that. The keeper could have done better. The defensive times and we could have scored more goals. But the real key issue for us last season was the midfield. You know, we lost Ghana a year ago. We got John Philip, your Batman, and hoped he'd replaced him. He got injured and is still injured a year later. You know, Andre Gomez got injured on day one and then played through it with a bit of an injury and then obviously just getting himself in. Got another terrible injury. He was out for four months. And the midfield just seemed to be mishmash all season. Fabian Delph came in last season and then he was injured most of it. So it was a problem for us the whole season. And we got to the end of the season, which was only a few weeks ago. And the manager knew what we'd said, what loads of other fans had said. The manager knew the same thing was that this midfield isn't good enough to compete. And he's gone out and addressed that. Alan in from Napoli. We brought Abdelhaid y Cori in from Wafford. James Rodríguez is coming from Real Madrid. Three huge signings to go with that. You know, Niels and Cuncoos coming to the squad now. OK, not played the game in terms of Premier League and stuff, but he's coming from Marse, each of the physical attributes. So the squad's got a little bit of competition. You're just mentioning John Joe Kenny, whether he stays, whether he's the right back for the season. We thought it was up to him, really. It's up to him to put pressure. So there's faces there, Balasi's back in there, whether he's involved or he isn't. There's these new faces that are back in that training every day and all of a sudden, levels have got to go up a place. Well, the manager's obviously spoke in his press conference about the full-back situations. He seems to be quite happy. I mean, obviously, you know, that might change. That could change very quickly. In all fairness, I don't think he's going to sit there and go, I'm not happy with it. No, no. But they, essentially, you know, with Dean playing, with being playing a lot of games and Kung Ku were playing a lot, I think, you know, training every day and I think he'd be, you know, he might get a chance. John Joe Kenny was quite interested, actually, with Seamus because you wouldn't, you can't sit here and go, well, Seamus Coleman is shooting for the right back, you know, because, and you can't see the same for John Joe, clearly. So it's that's very much in the air, but I just want to go back to, I want to go back to, to a cabaman there coming in that season, obviously he came on first game, played in the second game and then got injured last season. Do you think that's where, we're all excited, we've got three new sarnins, we're all dead excited, but do you think that's where the manager will go? You know, I've got three new sarnins in, great, but they've only had a few days training and I want to look after them and I want to look at them and see what their levels are before throwing them in, or do you think you might look at it and go, well, it's the first game of the season, everyone's at the same level and I'm just going to give these lads a go. I think, me personally, I think the core I'll play because he's been training with Wafford in pre-season with Wafford, not the Premier League, I think there's no doubt over him, I think he'll play, I think Alan will play, because I think he only finished the season very late with Napoli, albeit he wasn't playing every game, but he was training. He had a couple of weeks off and being back training with Napoli in their training camp and he's trained every day, he's trained on Saturday, so he's a surprise to me if he doesn't start. I'm not saying, that he knows his levels, his levels might not be as good as other people's, I don't know, but he's been training and only had a very short rest, so I would expect him to be fit, as fit as any of our players, really, theoretically. Hamers is a different one because we know he was on holiday, only till like 10 days ago and then obviously he comes to Messi's side and he went on and on. He's trained, he said himself, he's had four sessions, he wants a bit to get out or whatever, he was training a bit earlier than he should have been, but he's had the sessions this week, so he's the one, and given his history, because let's be honest about it, he's the one we have to wrap up a little bit in Cottonwood. So for me, he will be on the bench and he'll be looking, I'll be looking for maybe 25 minutes just to introduce him with the idea that we've got Salford City on Wednesday at Goulderson. Yeah, I think this time of the season it's not it's not about this is what I was indicating before, it's about getting through the games, it's about building up your fitness, it's about a long season. It's a long season, there's a lot of games, it doesn't all, you want to get off to a good start of course you do, but you don't want to get off to a bad start. I've seen it this morning, we've got to hurry up and get a right back and a centre back in time for Sunday and you're like, why? We haven't got to hurry up and get it the season isn't all about Sunday. Listen, I want to win. I want to get off to a great start. You just said that yourself there's another three weeks of a transfer window where play, okay, there won't be any talk about our play, he's leaving, I shouldn't have mentioned, but for evidence of just the sess and we may be able to bring one or two in before the end of that window, but we've got players there, now we're ready to play, haven't we? But you want to build those levels up and I was saying, I don't think, you know, we should, we made the mistake last year, I said it literally on the first day of the season when I think Obama will come on, I was stunned that he brought someone, but it was like Martin Silver had a new toy and just couldn't wait to play with it and I was astonished by that. I think Carla, she's got far too much experience to make the same kind of mistakes if there are issues over the general fitness, just general fitness, not any kind of injury fitness, general fitness, players who have trained pre-season I think will be given the nod on Saturday and will be given jobs and will be told to go out there and do those jobs and then we place off it on the Wednesday and again that might be a nod, you might look at that and go, will do we start them in this one, because we still don't think he will give them a little bit longer and then you come to West Brom on Saturday and then you say again, because again it's that thing of every season, of course you want to see new sirens, but if they're not physically ready, number one, you're not going to see anything to them really, they're just going to be puffing and puffing and it's just about building those levels to where they can compete and be part of whatever obviously the tactical decisions that need to be made because that's a key thing about it, you can't have anyone on the pitch who's just doing their own thing, they're all going to be part of a unit, part of a job, that's the whole point this season so the core I, yes as you said trained, ready for the Premier League and that's a big selling point for him he can come straight in and do that job Alan I imagine as well, the manager will have faith in him in his levels but I just think, just leave Hamas just to be right they'll have all the... Medical data and they'll know whether he's fit to play or not I imagine personally he'll be on the bench this weekend but we'll see I've seen a couple of plastered lines that's hot on them and they look like they may go like with Lloris and Dorwetheal obviously be right back Ben Davies left back all the world and Eric Dyer that'll be there allegedly with the most moneys on that'll be there back five and then in midfield obviously Hwyberg will be in there with what looks like Harry Winks Delhi Ali will be ahead of them and then they'll have Lucas Morir and Sonny the side of Harry Kane exciting players, strong in midfield tough game but it was a game that we played not so long ago it was a tight game probably should have got something out of it it was a tight game that we lost it to in our own goal from Michael Key in a shot that was going by I did him on a chest and was unfortunate but there was opportunities in that game and I don't think we believed enough which was mad because if we'd have won that night we'd have gone above them on the home for Europe that was the night for me in the lockdown thing after lockdown where we just kind of after that it was like we can't get Europe so what's the point? this weekend we've got to have that belief you mentioned it earlier on there there's no fans in the stadium so Evan I've got to use that to their advantage it's just a game against you know we've seen the space documentary we're currently watching that we've seen what's going on in that so we know the strengths and weaknesses Marino's a good man with Harry Kane he's always a threat so Evan I've got to go and defend properly which is why I think personally I think Seamus will start over John Jo Keane and mean of it'll be and Luca Dean but with the midfield it'll mean Dean can get forward because we'll have legs to get around a pitch but it's crucial that we're in this game and we really get stuck in and say it's ourselves and if we do that we've got two lads at the top end of the pitch you can score goals it's vital that we get them in the game it'll be interesting to see whether he goes with a 4-3-3 so he can go on to a 4-5-1 or whether he goes to the 4-4-2 and whoever he plays in the two wide areas then you know he's said interestingly enough that I go on with his fifth Portugal might beg to differ well they didn't say he wasn't fit they said his levels were not high enough for what they expected so that means he's got to get himself in the whip don't he really I could definitely see us starting with Decora and Alan in centre of my field and then like you've just said it depends then what they look at doing whether they do go 4-3-3 but then if you've got Decora if they've got Decora and Alan do you think he might go with Sigarton rather than Gomez just because because Decora and Gomez are similar in statue rather than style no I think Sigarton will have a shout because he's played the two games he's worked at and he might do it that way he might play well cut wide right and play materialism off the left and just try to basically mirror what space I'm doing with Deli Alley and then Guilty Sigarton a lot of people will be ffumin with that but Sigarton's a player who works hard obviously he's a good trainer he has got ability to up to him and who knows with legs around him he might be better if not he won't be in the team very long will he but that'll be the choice for him it'll be a tough one because it's whether to just go with you too or it's whether to mirror up with space don't forget it, a draw isn't a decent result I'd love us to win it's about time you want to have a place like Spears you were in the top 6 regularly top 4 for ages it's about time you went and got a result there we can do, we've got the players so it'll be a tough game Spears are unbeaten in the last 50 matches against us which is why it's got to be ended Everton have won three of 28 away games against Tottenham in the Premier League which is mad because we won three years on the run there in the 06 to 09 it's the 11 time Everton and Tottenham have met on matchday 1 three times more than any other fixture Spears have won on the opening day in the last three seasons Everton haven't Everton have had a player sent off in the last two matchday ones, Wolves and Palace it'll be the first team ever to have three sent off on the run don't there we've won one of our last 19 visits to London it was that Western you've got to put these things on there's one Jose Marino has managed more games on matchday 1 without losing than any other fixture you are throwing the positives out there because if that was an Everton stat everyone would be going don't say it so I'm saying it, I'm trying to cry it in see the next one I'm not going to read because I don't want to jinx it Tottenham hots first like a Harry Kane has scored nine goals and asked nine games against Everton it's only she's got more against Arsenal and Leicester and Job and Pickford has considered more goals against Spears than any other team I am now filled with so much confidence I could have read you 40 boss stats You could have just read nothing now the fact that needs to be put in it's a preview it's about the game it's about the history of this first show we know it's a tough game for me it's about time we went there and got a result definitely that's it as you said though try not to lose can't win it don't lose get something out of it that's all we can do and hopefully bed in a couple of players maybe see all three of them in some capacity but it's only the first game of the season long season a little bit more condensed but we want them for the majority we don't want to rush them and then lose them there's a game Wednesday, there's a game Saturday it's back and it's out here and the manager and his coaching staff have got to make decisions and there might be some players who play and everyone's what are you doing playing well there might be people on the bench oh listen there's a few more weeks at the transfer window we've got what we've got the pre-season has been short we've played two games so let's take all that into consideration and start in a positive manner and think right this is now the manager is now getting the basis of what he wants he said himself in the press conference David the three plays he wanted and he's got them so it's the start I know you've heard it before but it's the start of a process isn't it of a game he works with you know to use like this but it is the start of that it's the start of the new thing he's got some of his own players in his ideas and now it isn't all about this game it's about building let's be positive let's keep that positive frame of mind going it's a one game this great if we win outstanding we can be bouncing if we lose let's not lose our heads but let's for the players go out and give a good account to yourselves and get something out of it because they're not going to be flying they've had a game last week with half a team and international have been up the interplays have been away let's use that to our advantage and get something out of the game there you go let us know your thoughts in the comments are you positive about this game who do you want to see start any of the new signings or anyone else who else do you think should be competing this game let us know in the comments don't forget to give this video a like subscribe if you haven't already if you want more great videos live daily videos join us over on page and the link is in the description thanks for watching see you later