 Be gynnwt toffi TV, Salomon Rondon, a sign for Everton. He becomes Rafa Benitez's fifth summer signing. He's the final signing because he was signed as the window slam shut. I'm joined by John. We were in the studio when this predicted. John did say it'd be 11 o'clock. Everton did well, holding on to till 11 before an option. John, I guess it won't be... It's not what a lot of Evertonians wanted. And when I say a lot, I'm talking about social media. So there'll be lots of Evertonians, not on social media. We'll just go, it is what it is. I think people were looking for more of a right back and a wing and all. But that's by the bike, because we're here to talk about him. I wanted it additionally. I've got no issue with that. Moise Keane's gone out. Salomon Rondon has come in as striker. So what are your initial thoughts about it? It's like a long gestation. I don't know now that he's coming for a day or two. So I think I described him yesterday. It is yesterday, actually now, isn't it? There's a solid backup. But it's a pragmatic decision, isn't it? The style of play doesn't have to change if he drops in instead of DCL. That's where your much-needed right-winger would have come in. So yeah, I think the manager knows him. He seemed to like playing against us. Hopefully he'll like playing for us. He's got into double figures once, I think, in the Premier League. I don't know when he was at Newcastle again, under Benitez. He's career-wise one-in-three. So he's not prolific, but he'll trouble Premier League defenders. He works, doesn't he, and he's a solid lad and stuff like that. I think one of the things to take... I mean, free. Exactly. That's a bonus, isn't it? One of the things you have to take into account with this is there's two things to look at here. We know Rafa Benitez is very data-heavy. And he is coming in as a backup. He's not coming in as our number-one striker. No, that's right. We do have two lads. We will call out our two strikers, which are Bratialisland and Dominic Alburlun. But the thing I think what people need to remember as well, with Rondon, is he's played in two teams that West Brom, who were in exactly the most expansive side on them, so didn't create lots and lots of chances. And Newcastle were very much battling and stuff, you know, when I think Rafa Benitez, and even the most ardent Newcastle fan would say, didn't have a team anywhere near as good as Everton with the creativity that Everton had in it. And yet in his final season, Benitez's final season when he was on loan from West Brom, he was... You've just said it there, he got into double figures. He was excellent. He gave us a couple of real tough games at Godderson. Score at Godderson? Score for West Brom and for Newcastle? You know, the goal for Newcastle in the one-months or at Godderson, he's a great finisher, a great finisher at the park end. He's a handful. I mean, I'm not... Listen, I'm not... Anyone who sits there and goes, oh, you know, you might... and we get this from some people, will think that I'm trying to make it sound like we've signed Primly. No, we haven't. And we haven't. And there would be other strikers. I'd personally voted for Edward, who ended up going to Palace, because I think he's one who potentially Terry Moffies and other young striker in France who I would have got. But we haven't, and the money wise. We've got him free. Like you've just said, for the first time, I guess, for a while, probably ever, with having Dominic Carver-Lewin, we've actually got another fella who can play similar to him, because if you think of other strikers since Dominic Carver-Lewin's been in Everton's first team, it's kind of been Uman Nias, or it's been Moise Keane, over Charleston himself, who's a different type of striker anyway. So Everton have had to change fundamentally the way they play, and he ain't going to have to do that. No, he'll seek to get on the end of balls just like Dominic would. I mean, I admit, I suppose most of us really, I've watched him much of you. I've watched him when he's played against us. I mean, I've seen obviously Benny's in the Premier League, but he's gone off to China. He's been gone for a couple of seasons, and then Moscow for a loan, don't know if he's coming from China now or from Bloody Moscow, I don't really know. But clearly the manager knows him, he knows the manager. And he's that solid backup, so... Yeah, and three. If he's fit, I guess he'll be on the bench the next time we play, so... I mean, that's what we're hoping. I mean, he's got the Premier League stat, we'll have a quick look at now. Premier League record, there's 140 appearance, there's 35 goals and 14 assists. People looking at that will go. There's one in four of that. Yeah, he doesn't, but again, his record's boosted elsewhere. He's not played in expansive sides, so it's not like he's played for Manchester City and scored three, four goals, and you go, and this fella doesn't know where the net is. He's at West Brom and Jalbyen, and he's been at Newcastle. He was quite consistent, I think. We probably don't have them, but he was getting one in three-ish at West Brom, so eight, nine, ten, eleven sort of goals. And as you say, not in expansive teams. And we create lots of chance. Oh, we have been recently. Lots of opportunity, and you'll get on the end of them, I guess. He's got, since he left in 2019, he's gone off to China and Russia, he's scored 22 goals in 40 games. He's got the assists, and he has just three shots a game and stuff like that. So, different quality. Obviously, there is, you know, the Chinese Super League, ain't the Premier League, and I'm not trying to deny it. I'm not trying to read history and go, well, come on from there, so he's going to be great supporters of squad play. And he'll know that. So you might argue, it's like a town, then, coming bolster the numbers, not necessarily start, but if you work hard, who knows. I imagine a situation where Rafa Benitez wants to go bruise, brothers remember that Duncan and Kevin Campbell all those years ago, and he goes, plays both. Today we'll play him and Dom, and we'll play him to wide areas, and we'll batter. You know, we use them as a batter and ram. Well, when Richie has one of his sendings off, you know. No, John, that one out in the season, he's going to be fully focused. So, like you just said, John, he's a back-up, he's a squad player. Some might argue, some might argue he's kind of like the perfect free transfer, really, because if you're bringing in a back-up, you know, at a certain age, they're going to want to play, aren't they? Yeah, yeah. And be like, why aren't I starting instead of this fella? You know, instead of Dom, or whatever, and he's going to come in, and Dom and the Calvert Lovers, who's doing very, very well and developing brilliantly, can develop off him. And I'll tell you another player as well, I think, that he could be really important for, or someone like Ellis Sims, who's a young striker, who does need to lay out and put himself about a little bit more. You're looking at him and trying. Well, you can have someone to mimic, and the last couple of seasons were Ron. Ron. Has that come from? That's wishful thinking. Well, you call him Ron. Don't call him Ron. Biger Ron. But whilst he's the back-up player, Dominic himself has had two good seasons where he scored more goals. He clearly should, hopefully, score more goals again this season, particularly as he's on penalties. But in both the last two seasons, Dominic's really dropped off in the second half. So maybe this guy will allow Dominic to come off with 20 minutes to go in games, even if we're not leading, because he can come on and drop in. And then occasionally, of course, maybe start a game so that we don't run poor Dominic into the ground. Well, that's it, because you do have to respect that. You've got to give the lads the opportunity to ref-charge the batteries. We've flogged on. You know, every year, in fact, to be honest, John, his goals have gone up every single year. Totally. And we've had a great return from him in the last couple of seasons, and he started this season brilliantly just three goals. He's played with an injury. He's played with an injury. He's won out, really. Three goals in three games. So that's fantastic. So you're right. There'll be opportunities for everything to go. You know, it might be with 25 minutes left. Don, you know, come and sit down, and we put this fella on. It might be, like you said before, times when they're both on the pitch. There might be times when you say to Dominic, you're looking a little bit jaded. You can be the one on the bench today. You beat a sub. Because last season, Anciolotti did it at Hanfield. Don was sub and came on, ran Liverpool, ragged, got the penalty later on. He made a huge difference when he came on to the pitch. They just given him that little bit of the opportunity to freshen up. So I think it's important that Rafa Benitez will know that this fella is a life for life. Benitez has, you know, a couple of potential, you know, going to get games. Can we know this from past games? You know, past clubs. Will him in town and pass at the same time? I don't think so. I think times then went. But whatever. You know what you get. Yeah, we do. There you go. Solomon Rondon is an Everton player. He come on off free transfer. It's a two-year deal. And let's see what he can do. You know, squad player like John said there. Let us know what you think in the comments section below. 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