 Welcome to Toffy TV, Everton. I have made a signing. It's an early one in the January market and it is a Vitaly Michaelenko. I think that's how you pronounce his name anyway. Some people will probably tell me difference. A left back coming in from the Ukraine and yeah, it's what we needed. A left back. Well it is what we need because we need a better squad. We need young, hungry players. We need to turn the squad round and this is hopefully the first of a few in January to start that process. Yeah, I mean obviously we've seen Luka Dean fall out of favour of late. Missed quite a few games and the manager has obviously decided he wants a younger left back in or certainly to push him. There's a lot of talk that Dean will go out the door and maybe he will. This January it depends on obviously shooters and who comes in with the money and stuff. So Everton have done something he don't really do that often which is be proactive and I've moved them brought either his competitor in or his replacement which you have a side of the Fenty following 22 years of age, played in the Champions League, played for the Ukraine and stuff. So in the Euros. He's got good experience. Obviously there'll be a settling in period because he's coming from one of your top five leagues so he's coming in and you'll have to get up to speed with that but if Dean is to go then replacing him with someone who's nearly seven years younger than him or at least six years younger than him with a shell on value makes sense and a player Everton have looked after a while, a player after Benitez likes so he's gone and done the business early which is good. A player that a lot of good sides, a lot of European you know European playing sides have looked at as well being linked with a lot of teams. United Liverpool looked at them as well. For me it makes perfect sense. I'm a big fan of look at Dean. I think he's a really good player but it would be smart business if we could you know get 30 million forums out and then bringing this, I haven't brought him this lab bringing a right back, a young right back and also with FFP, wages and stuff obviously Dean is what less than a year into a new contract so obviously from that side of things with helping and we spoke about this before we spoke about other clubs doing smart business you know beginning of next season look at Dean over 29 and you know we'll probably have a window of a couple of years where is it you think well maybe now he's shining and where a lot of teams he's not he's not cup European cup sides and so there's teams in Europe who might look at them and stuff and so bringing a young player into to replace him and we don't know if that replacement you wouldn't want that replacement to be straight away you'd want the lad to bed him for six months and then maybe next season but with the way things are that might be out of our control and obviously Dean wants to probably go somewhere be playing knowing that the World Cup is coming up at the end of the year and things like that and I think that's one of those things where Dean's always looked at the situation of as long as I'm playing for Everton and I get and I've been in the France squad then I'm quite happy because at other places he's been a top club but he hasn't played and therefore hasn't been in the French squad missed out on a World Cup medal and stuff he doesn't want to probably just want to miss out on anymore so for him and for us that might be the right thing even though I'd be sad to see him because the goal because I think he's a terrific player but bringing in a young replacement is what you have to do and you know if that happens it's the same on the right back position as well which is obviously massively overdue and that becomes from the money we get from Dean and the kid is part of that then it all plays its part and start to turn that squad around and with it we've looked at it in the past and we've brought in all the players on big money and stuff this is this is how we've got to do it and you know it takes it takes a lot of boxes young hungry played at a very good standard probably gone as far as you can go with his own club you know I think they won the domestic treble last season playing the Champions League you probably love to continue that but a chance to be in the Premier League is you know obviously too big to to miss out on so I think it's I think it's smart business as I said I would like to see Luka Dean stay for the rest of the season but that doesn't seem to be in the cards with that with just the way everything gets forever at the moment yeah the cards are disagree with any of it but it is good business if and it is part of turning the squad around we've all be moaned the squad we've bemoaned the quality of it we've bemoaned some of the tighter deals that haven't have chased I don't think there's enough of these signings being made but I think other clubs do it other clubs are really good at it and we we lord and praise other clubs when they do it so I'm like you I think Deans are Deans are an excellent footballer I'd like him to stay obviously and you'd like to be bringing him in as his understudy and you know doing that but we've got to be realistic and go we're not a team in Europe every year we're not a team in the Champions League so right now we can't carry two two top players for every position we just can't so we have to start making this squad younger stronger fitter yeah and it's not even it's not a case of listen I've seen a few people saying you know everything fans why are you so open to selling Dean or you know when top clubs are after me I don't think it's a case of looking at from that point of view Dean is obviously a very very good player but is does he play in a position where you get enough out of him for that quality to have an effect on the entire team positively I don't think it is at the moment and therefore with his age I think it just makes sense and Dean could probably go to a lot of really good teams and make them better it's just that with us he's an asset that the way the situation is you know the thing about there is you manage yeah whether people like that for everything there's no no the manager has to be in control of the situation if him and Dean have fallen out because Dean doesn't want to do what he's asking him to do then you'd have to move him on don't you that's the way it is I know a lot of people that's rather see beneath us go and Dean stay but that's not gonna happen yeah so the manager has to make that decision if everything we know everything they're after a right back as well so everything can bring in two people for one then it makes sense yeah it's also a problem don't it so young players coming in at a good age getting a 29 year old out the door who maybe doesn't want to be here anyway because he's like you should want to play in your 29 in the summer you know once you've been at the top of his game ever now there and don't look like it but it's just things like the World Cup it's his last for Dean it's his last World Cup you know he wants to be in there and there's any he's obviously not going to stay at Everton if that's the case if he's not playing or he doesn't feel like he wants to be somewhere else and you are you have to the situation you know these these situations arise and Everton in the past say I say there's a club and see these fans we're too we're far too precious yeah we were we we look at situations like this as fans and I think we look at it and think oh it's like a slight on us oh we're losing one of our best players it's a slight because we're up you know we do it all the time Dean's the best left back in the country and you know I know Robinson all this nonsense it's like why why are we so precious it's like he's come to a stage in his career where it's probably right for him because in two years time when he's 30 you know when he's nearly 31 we'll be looking at this situation going needs to replace the need to bring someone young in it so why don't we do it now while it suits actually everybody and that's not saying oh it's great that we're selling them it's not what it is it probably just suits everybody and bringing this kid in is the start of that we're prepared my god the football club prepared that's just mad so I think that's where this this is a positive a really positive deal we've got in there and we've got the player and and that's that's that's really good yeah I don't think anyone would hand pick Dean to leave will be we're not trying that out but you've got to sometimes look at situations for exactly what they are every one's all the people aren't happy here all the parties aren't happy the manager doesn't look like he's happy with him he doesn't look like he's happy with the manager so if you've got to make the best of it he's one of our highest paid players if we left it 18 months and then you can't shift them people would be gone you know why be paying them so much sad and we've we've we've ultimately as well this player is the manager's player this is the fella he sees long time being his left back he obviously the thing what one of the reasons why well might be the main reason why deans felt felt or whatever is because he doesn't like the way the manager plays so the manager is not gonna he's not gonna start changing things for the player so if it's a case of well this player plays the way I want to play so we're gonna get more out of him and that's again that makes more sense whether we like it whether people like it whether people prefer deans to the manager which I'm sure a lot of people do this player it suits what the manager wants so we can go forward with that whereas what we've got them on with Dean is a position where we don't want to be and what we've been guilty of as a football club for far too long years bringing players in and not selling the player the replacement or selling players and not getting the replacement in to replace them so we've always been one or the other and it's made as it's ultimately both situations have made us weaker as a team as a squad this situation is hopefully going to make us stronger because well if we do lose Dean then it'll be a player going out who's being replaced by someone who the manager really wants so we'll see what happens let's just look at his numbers in terms of his general stats 22 left back obviously 109 games five goals 21 caps including um I think it was four out of the five games he played in the euro so um brilliant very positive on that front all those tick tick the boxes I think what we want is play champions league play for his country in a play in a high competition he's playing for the top team in the ukraine he's won trophies so he's got that winning feeling and stuff he's a you know he's been playing in the fair since he was like 17 18 you know so he's got you know he's supposed to be very good going forward very good defensively like you said before a lot of top clubs looked at him so he's you know he gets forward decent crosser which is again what the manager wants um good on in the in in the tackle but I don't think people tackle anymore he's good one-on-one defending is is good as well so looks like he's already you know he's a little bit taller than Dean so looks like he's already suited for the Premier League and he would have done the work on him they would have looked at him it's someone that massive brands wanted as well wasn't it I think a lot of like you said before you know Liverpool or Manchester United were looking on Liverpool wanted them before they got simicus but because simicus was I think at the time they wanted 29 million for the simicus I think it was about 11 million or something and he went with him United have watched them quite a bit uh obviously brands new bar and Rafa Benitez new bar and and Evan have moved quickly it's actually unusual as well to get a player out of kf at the stage of this career as we've already found out we are melancholy trying to get it out that was that was in August I wasn't in this season was going on we're lucky the Ukrainian season's finished hasn't it and it's on that break before so we've been able to act but they maybe they need the money as well due to the cover stuff or maybe the looking at it and going well it's a it's a big plot you know big plus for us to to get a player from the club into the Premier League and stuff and obviously yeah melenko's here there's an anyway isn't he from Westam so no it looks listen looks decent yeah let's have a look at uh how he compares to luka dean um start off with the attacking play so in terms of um cross to pass ratio luka dean um better exe luka dean better crosses uh dribbles and successful dribbles percentage uh dean is better but successful through balls successful smart passes successful passes to the penalty area and touches in the box um michael and cow is better so they've got their own different strengths in that in in in the attacking areas but yeah quite it's quite equal just on different sides uh in their defensive performance uh dean in the aerial duels is stronger uh defending duels is stronger and um tackles is stronger um michael and cow stronger in the uh aerial duels one percentage um defensive duels one files stronger and just just just higher in the interceptions as well reading the game well uh and in passing and progression uh dean is higher in the long pass accuracy uh forward pass ratio but everything else is in uh michael and court forward passes accuracy uh passes pass accuracy progressive runs progressive passes final third to forward pass ratio and final third passes accuracy so in terms of passing and progressing uh michael and cow is quite strong compared to dean so maybe that's the area the manager being looking at that final third getting the ball into players rather than just thrown into a dangerous area with luke of dean's crosses obviously is being brilliant while he's being at evan but maybe the manager's looking for that little bit more accuracy in that final third build helping to build up the play rather than just going around the full back and put it into an area uh we're waiting to see obviously that that was from this season and one is in the front premier league and one is in ukrainian league so it's we won't listen we we won't know till we see the play playing in an evan shape week in and week out and it will take him time obviously not just because he's got to get used to the premier league but he's obviously hasn't been playing recently due to the break he's coming from a team that has a lot of the ball as well they had the best team in ukrainian animal care so he's you know it'll adapt they'll have to adapt because we won't have the ball as much as they do and um it's a tough league the premier league you know it's going to have his work cut out but it physically looks like a good athlete um it's quite quick so hopefully hopefully he'll get up to speed with it and if he does then he settles in and beds in and it is a smart piece of business but you know you're losing or it appears we're losing one of the best left backs in the premier league and in your for it for someone who's unsried I guess at this level um it's a gamble but it's not it's not as if we've just decided to make this it this is an issue that's come up and the player quite clearly wants to or the teams wants to move on and the manager seems to be happy for to let him go because maybe they just don't get on maybe it's a case of look at the games shoot a different way of playing and if if you've got a a player in your side that isn't prepared to do what you need them to do then you move them on I think I think maybe a different manager would have got a better deception to it as well but there is what it is you have to make the most of it that's it that's it so there you go Michael Encoe is in the building let us know your thoughts on this signing and um obviously you know if you feel like this will lead to Luka Dean and your thoughts on that as well whether you're happy with that whether you think it's a good business if both things happen and obviously the knock-on effect hopefully for the rest of the team as well and everything starting off 2022 in good fashion by bringing in a player straight away let us know your thoughts make sure to give this video a like subscribe if you haven't already if you want more great videos join us over on patreon the link is in the description and it's on the screen thanks for watching see you later