 Welcome to Toffy TV. It is our transfer specials where we're looking ahead to the summer and what areas Everton and who Everton may target this summer, fingers crossed. During that, Andy, loads of you are delighted to see Andy back on the couch in areas again. This week we're looking at the centre of field players. The eternal position. It seems like we've looked at... I was going through some of the stuff we've done last year and the year before with centre of field players. The corey was on both. But we don't have to do this year because we've got it. So that's what I'm kind of working on with a couple of players. There's a theme running through, like Leon Bailey, if I keep saying it. It might happen. But centre of fielders, for me, and this is still as important as it was swell months ago that we get another mobile in the field. We sat here last year probably around this... where the stage of the season was, not necessarily where it was because it got pandemic, but we sat here before the season and then they're gone. There has to be two new midfielders at least. We've got them and they've done in the main, they've done well. But for me, we still need another one. Yeah, I think the way that the composition of the midfield is looking, we need maybe one or two. It depends. Obviously, Gabam will be one of them if he can get fit. I think we would have expected him back before now, obviously, to unfortunate injuries. Hopefully, he'll be back for next season. But we'd still need another one, I'd say. I think Andrew Gomez isn't a bad player, but I guess you've got a question where he's fit right for what we want to do. It can be nice on the ball. The rest of his game really doesn't fit whatever we're trying to do and where the Premier League's going. So maybe we need something better than him. Tom Davis is a fourth or fifth midfield. I've got no problem with that really. Tom does a job. I think you wouldn't want him to get started every single week if he wants to meet a push of the Champions League, which is obviously how things get going, whether that be next year or the year after, wherever it may be. So I'm a field out of the right profiles. I think what's happened with Tom Davis this year is he's actually found a position. I think when he first came in, he was a bit of everything and it was great. And then I think he was mismanaged. I think Ronald Cooman started, I think Cooman treated him shockingly, really, in his second season, having put him in the team. And I'm developing looking really good and being a key part of that team till the end of the season. He then went on board 37 number 10s and Davis was just pushed out. Instead of leaving him in and working people round him. And then he lost his way a little bit and he's been up and down with every man. He's done all of that in and out. Marco Silva, he was in and out. I don't think Marco Silva knew what he was. When he was asked about being a sixth, he said he's definitely not a number sixth. I think he's 21 to the sixth, yeah. But what's happened, I think, since Alan's coming, is he's had someone to actually identify with and someone who could be a guess, a bit of a role model for him. Other people who maybe we've had necessarily role models. Garno was doing 10 man's jobs so he can't replicate that. But I think he has been able to kind of replicate what Alan's done, I think, this season. And do you think that is a position that maybe if he nails that down and focuses on that number sixth role for him moving forward for his own career? That's what he's probably best at. Yeah, I think there's a couple of things that have gone right for Tom in terms of obviously you're right with Alan, you can come in and sort of base your game. Because Alan, I think he's probably a bit more athletic than Tom. Bree isn't like super fast, pretty smart. The way he positions himself, the way he rats around the field, breaks things up. I think Tom can do that. Obviously he's reached an age now where he hasn't matured and football has obviously got things on 120 games now, forever. So he's got to that stage and I think he's simplified this game. I think what I should say when he was mismanaged, if you will, you end up trying to overcompensate and where you get your chances, you're trying to do too much and we've seen Tom force some balls into areas, trying to run into blind alleys, trying to make things happen. Because you're trying to impress and I think what's happened now is the manager said, no, you just keep your game simple. That works and you're really effective at that. And you've seen it when he's in late in games where Tom started to try and try more stuff. The manager said, no, that's not what I want you to do off your comment. That's my management. So I think if he sticks to what he's been doing well, I think he'll have a good career with Evan and maybe eventually he might want to play first team football away from Evan, but I think he's found the role within it for his career. So we're looking at what we think, it's balance isn't it there, and what we think is a bit more mobility, a bit more power in that midfield area and it's something that we get with the corey when he's in the team and obviously we've just talked about Alan. But you're right, I think as I go home, it's nicer footballer is what he is. What does he do in the other two areas? He's not great offensively, he's not great offensively, so maybe move him on Delf. No, no thanks. So we do need him. And Gabamon. I know a lot of people will be covering their ears in their eyes now, but if we could get him fit, he's the exact. So we're going to have a look at some with those characteristics, aren't we? Yeah, I think that's key. I think Evan want to be a team of us. We've got John McCall, what Lou and his good in transition. We've got Richard, some hopefully have another winger. We want someone like we've seen him in the fourth goal of Brighton, I think when the corey drove forward to go all the goals this season, where some Alan the other night, when he drives forward, we need that more. I think it's nice when you've got Andrew Gummins on the ball and he's popping it off places, but Evan I think are better suited to be in the quicker transition team instead of a solo possession team. Haven't run as far as Rodríguez is always going to be key as well. Let's have a look anyway. The first one we're going to look at here is Fulham's Andrew Frank Zambo. Anguisa, yeah. Anguisa. 25 years of age, he's played 33 times for Fulham this season, hasn't scored a goal, but has three assists. Lots of shots. Progressive carries, 5.53. Why is that important? It's again similar to transition. It's pretty hard to break the lines. I think Evan haven't got enough players. You can break the lines more consistently. Obviously, when you break through the first line in the field, you have to pull defenders off your strikers and your four players, and then obviously you can get the ball to hammers or another. You can score goals, and that's the key really. That's what the city is based on. The city, obviously, you've got a lot of players who can beat a man, and then it's creating those third man runs, those overloads, and that's key in modern football. Yeah, definitely. I mean, he is someone who I think carries the ball really well. He's done well for Fulham. We've had the game, I think, against Sheffield United. We've had 13 dribbles in one game. He is capable of breaking open teams, which is really key. Back to his stats, then. He has 5.53 progressive carries a game, which I think that's quite good, isn't it? Shot creation 1.89 a game. He's created a few chances this season for a sense of the field. I think, I will just caveat before we go any further, around Christmas, I don't know what's happened. He seemed to start fading late in games. Anything happened around, and I was full of my COVID problems. I don't know whether he had any. But I think in the second, and he's just really got back to being in form, so his stats may be a bit skewed by that. Okay. Tackles 2.9 a game. That's good for a midfield player. Interceptions 1.61, it's not bad. Ball pressures 19.8 per game, which is obviously, is what you want. You want someone who's in, like you just said, with Alan, right on around. I mean, 19.8, that's a hell of a lot of midfield work, isn't it? Exactly. You want to force people back. I think the issue with that, maybe not this year, because you've had Alan de Corry, is it's very easy to play through the midfield. Without that pressure on the ball, a lot of time, and the fall for people's creative players in the field, is sort of a Chelsea before lockdown last year, with these tourist bar, because there's no pressure on the ball. I think that's what I need to be in midfield. Obviously, it'd be nice to have someone who can obviously create loads of chances, like Andre Gomez, but a better version. But what we really need is people to put pressure on the ball, turn it over and get the ball to our players, and engage in situations, 1v1, 3v2. That's the key, you know what I mean? Definitely. I think, for me, I think you'd be a fantastic addition forever, and I think you put them in midfield with de Corry, and with Alan, you somebody can travel with the ball. I think de Corry can do it. I think de Corry, it's mad with Adelaide de Corry, because I still don't think we've seen the best of him and what he's really got at, which is arriving late in the box and getting goals. He's got the header against him. He's a follower. He's got the cup against Rodham. I think the issue is what happens, is if you're good at doing a number of things, you end up clearly playing different roles, and I think de Corry obviously played ten of times last season for Wafford. I think this season he's been asked to do an all-around midfield role, rather than an usual box-to-box. I think you can stay doing that role and obviously joining him, but then Anguisa could do the role that he did last season for Wafford for Everton in terms of carrying the ball forward. And he can create chances at Anguisa. I don't think full of the best team, because they haven't got really an outlet, and Richard Charleston, maybe another winger, and Hames, of course. I think he'd add something to the team. Again, depending on what midfield structure we play, you might not play every game, but if you want to play a three midfield, you'll obviously add a lot to it. He would definitely be someone I would be looking at, especially before I'm being relegated, of course, as well. I think he's got two years left on his contract. I think he's done until 2023, so maybe Everton can throw a couple of players their way, or alone even, and loan a couple of our promise to them and see if we can do it that way. But he will be someone I would be trying to deal with. Next on the list is, I know this is a favour to yours. This is someone who's been on my radar for a couple of years now. I think we both spoke about him a couple of years ago, when he was playing centre back, but he's gone into midfield. He's a little bit more defensive than what Anguisa does, isn't he? But it's Bubacar Camara. He's 21 years of age. He plays for Marseille. I've got Fulham on there, which is wrong. It's what you say, Marseille. Fulham, I'd love to have him. But he's played 33 games as a stataleist. 33 games, no goals and two assists. He's had for Marseille this season. Progressive carries, 4.01. Not bad. Shock creation, 1.8. Not bad for him. Tackles, 2.9, as we're Anguisa this. Interceptions, a bit lower on 1.07. And ball pressure is still very good. 16.3, obviously a bit lower than Anguisa. Tell us a little bit about Camara and why you like him. So Camara was brought through as a centre back for Marseille. But he's a defensive midfiel. I think his best role is defensive midfiel. I think the difference he makes for everything is that he'll allow Alan to go on if those destroy your roles. And allow them to run. I think Alan, though he can play six quite well, I think he does want to go and chase the ball and cut it out. And to be wrong, he wins the ball. But sometimes he won't if you are in a position. And if he wants someone to protect the back four and sweep in front of them. I think someone like Camara. And also he's got a lovely range of passes. And I think that's the one thing, and probably I haven't gone. We've got hammers. You can do that crossfield ball. We've got Alan. You can sometimes put that switch of play. You've seen them over the park doing it so well. When you switch the play, I think that's something you can do really well. His long range pass is really good. You can carry the ball, you can create chances. It's just that protection in front of the screen in the back four. I think if we wanted a proper six, then that would be sort of, and again you can play the back three if you need to play centre back. That face utility. I think he's a player who'll go for it. Can he play in an eight as well? He's the side of Alan. He could do. He's got the ability to. He can carry the ball, but I think he probably can play the six. Play the six and leave the other six. I'd say it depends how you want to compose him a field. If you want to do four, two, three, one, it could be him and Alan sitting and then you play the one with wing backs going flying and they cover the planks wherever you want to do it really. Because I think one of the things with Alan is he does like to go ratting around. And I think that's why in evidence game at West Ham when it was him and Tom Davies, he was able to go and do it because Davies sat in for it and then there was no holes. And I guess what you're saying with him is he was in with someone like Bubic a Camara, he would be able to go and do that and that would still have, he'd still have cover behind. Obviously the right A is the right profile and a player who is going one way as far as I'm concerned and it's great when. So you've got a year left on his deals. The cost of the transfer will be lower. Now's the time to do it. There's more say about some money issues as well haven't you? I've got someone in Paul, who deals directly with English, comes from our seats to sell the players as well. So he's an interesting one. Let's move on to the next one which is a player who Everton have been linked with many times Adrian Rabio. You've entered 31 games this season, two goals, one assist, 20, 25 years. 25 years. This is usually my thing from the other day. Progressive ball carries 5.84 which is good. Shot creation 1.94, bit higher. Tackles 2.9, so we're still getting around the same mark. Interceptions 1.23, slightly higher than Camara and ball pressure is 19.9, like Anguisha. So left footed player. You can play with his right as well. Travel with the ball. Travel with the ball. Create chances. Really good technically as well. I'm surprised he's been linked with Everton so often because I think he's a Champions League level player. Everton want to get there. I know he loves the manager, but he's really good. I think it's a surprise these linked with Everton. I don't know if we'll be able to get him. He's a super player. He's a mobile player. I've seen people say he reminds me of Gomez, but I think he's much faster. I think the reason he reminds me is because he's against a silky player on the ball, the hair, the way he moves. I think a bit more intense is his game than Anguisha. He's much better defensively, that's to be honest there. I think people know. I think about how Rabio is that. People of PSG thought he should be a six, and that was going to be his role, and he doesn't think so. He thinks he should be a box-to-box player who can get forward because he likes to get forward. Go across the ball as well to be fair. I think with him, obviously, the issues of, or room of the issues are off the field things, with his mum being his agent. How true that all is. I think Carla was the one who settled them down and gave them his chance at PSG. I think he's a really good player. I think he's a really good player where they'll want to come to Everton without Europe maybe, but hopefully we do get Europe of course. I don't know, but he'll be a superb addition. I think he'll give you the... He'll be eight as well. Yeah, he'll play out of the six and then him and the core in. He'll do different things then. I think that'll be a really good option. I think he'll be a quality addition there. Yeah, nice player, nice player. Yeah. He would certainly improve us, definitely. This one's a little bit of a wait-and-see player, I think. I think he would improve Everton now if he'd come in the midfield because he's mobile enough. He's very energetic. Travels with the ball. There's Papisar from Metz. He's 18 years of age. He's played 20 games from Metz this season. Three goals, no assists. Progressive ball carries 6.62, so the highest what we've seen. Shot creation 2.23, again, high. Tackles 2.99, in line with the other players. More interceptions 2.48 and ball pressure is 19.5. Overall, Papisar is the best of what those stats are. It's a shorter sample scale and they could drop off. You can't always directly apply that. No, you can't. What I would say about him is, unlike, for example, Kamara, he's much more rash tactically in position. He does like to chase the ball around the pitch. He is quite raw. I think the key with him is, he comes from the Generation Foot Academy. You have a deal with Metz, you've got Sadio Mane, Ibraham and Niani plays for Metz now. They're the production line from Senegal to Metz, he makes his prospects off the conveyor belt. Yeah, good player. I think he's got a lot about him. I think he's got a good base skill. Similar to Paul Pogba at the same age, without the same level of Paul Pogba, he's much more refined. Similar type of body, similar type of movement. The same type of player you can run. Paul Pogba is a bit more technically further on. Again, people have progressed at different ages. I think you can see the ability. I think it's just consistency and decision making. I think the key would be if Gabamon was fit, then he would be your fourth. He could bring him in and out. I think he could develop there. I think Evan would have to get him sort of now, because I think if he develops more, your PSGs and your other teams are going to take him on. You're going to take it off your hands. That's why maybe Evan would have watched him. We said this before, we said it when we were chatting last week about the direction of the club. Maybe where Evan needs to move the goal. Maybe where Evan needs to move the goal. Not move the goal, but champions league. The goal is to win some trophies. It's got to be. It's what you're doing on the journey there. Someone like him is when we're talking about players who are on the way up who will play in the champions league. There's a lot of buzz about Pachysa. You can never predict the footballer's career. You can look and go, looks like he's got everything and it doesn't work out. We've seen that over the years. Talking about footballers, he's probably one of the most skillful footballers ever. The left foot can dribble. Everyone has tipped for the very, very tropping. Flashes of it. You can never, even when someone's got Paul Pogba is a perfect one. Paul Pogba. Exactly. He's got everything. He's got the physique. He's got fantastic ability. Box to box. Energetic scores, goals. Great near. And yet you look at him and go. You want more? Not sure. It's not that you want more. Sometimes people never reach their expectations. There's a lot of variables for people's career. They move to the wrong club. They're surrounded by the players who made them work at other clubs. There's loads of different variables. Everything's a gamble. Whatever you have to do is take calculated risks and calculated gambles where you say if I can get this I'll take in the gamble £30 million rather than sign someone for £30 million who may or may not be a Champions League player. That's what we were saying. It's getting players like this here who will probably play in the Champions League and they're on the way up. If they play there with Everton, I would stand them. But if they come to Everton to develop and then it's paid £18 million for them and they stayed for three years and they shell them for £40 million then it's been well worth the gamble and I don't like it. I don't love it. I don't love the fact that you have to try to say with the exception of four or five teams probably in your... If you offer everyone a severe everyone, all those European trophies like Sevilla, you'd love it wouldn't you? That's all they do and they have to sell players all the time. I know that's the one the league before they started really being this type of club. Look where they are now. Where do we like them or not? I think there are some players who have to sell something off. I think Everton maybe were good some of this some including that. That trust will be there with brands, you need that trust and you need to trust the development. If you take a lad like this on you have to be... You have to trust the people at the club Carlo, Daveyve, Duncan other coaches to develop them on. I think teams like Leicester We need to sort of super. If you want to take players like this, we need to develop them collectively. Does n't he mean just on that? Does n't he not necessarily mean I want to get players in and we'll just take our time developing them. Does n't he mean he come in and they work for the team and if they're ready for the team, we'll do that? No-one could say Dominic Alvarlu when I improved on the Carlot Lolot. a mae'n fyw yn ymlaen i'r gael y tanteil yn y byd. Felly mae'n ddweud i g wedi bod y gweithio'n gwaith ar un o'r sredig gan hynny? Wrth gwrs yn fawr ymyddai'r cyflau'r llyfo, mae nid oedd y mae'n gweithio'r cyflodd. Mae'n byw i ddweud y ddweud, ond ben yn ymlaed. Mae'n ddweud Ion Agbau, fel oedd y byw yn eich sefydledd mewn gwirOOOOF. Mae'n eich sefydledd a'r banann i'w ddweud, fel oe'n ymlaen i'r cyflodd, gydechis yn yng Ngwychol mewn cyfrifiadau hefyd. Yn amser mae'n gwybod yn wych. Rwy'n i'n gwybod i'n cyfrifiadau hefyd. Yn amser mae'n mynd i'rinyaeth. Mae chyfrifiadau hefyd, nhw iddo yn nhw'n meddylu, mae'n gwybod i'n meddyliadau archifegu. Mae gennym yn ei gweithio! Ac yn y gweithi i'r gwaith i'r cyflur, mae'n ym 18 o 19 o defnyddio, mae'r cyffredin iawn y maen nhw. A'r cyfrifiadau hefyd yn Cylliddau, Carl has certainly brought young players through before in his career, so he's taken care of wonderful players, so yeah, you've got to, you know, I think it's the proofs in the pudding I guess, and I think everything fans and people like me, you have to see it first, it's all great being, you know, saying we can do that, you've got to see it first before you're leaving it. Of course, but I'm a bit of a believer if you go do enough you'll play anyway, and then it's on you as well because everything's there, you've got to have that right to want to be better. I've listened to Dominic Alvertlow and again this week talking and saying, you know, the goal is to do better than I did last season and to keep doing it every day, I work harder to get better, and that's someone who has improved year on year, and I think if the core of your players do that, want to get better in general for yourself first and foremost, do you will? And this kid, I think he's on his way up, I think he would give something to Evan, I think he'd be a player that is an easy drop, if that makes sense, so you bring him in, it does not load the pressure on him, and he drops in and then you can take him out and put someone in and take him out and put him back in, and then that way you will develop. First man feels, situation is more settled and you've got to Corey Allen, Gabam and Fit, and Tom, and he's your fourth because he's probably getting in front of Tom maybe, and he's your fifth man feels, there's not as much pressure on him to be that start and change evidence fortunes. I think at the moment, at times, when we're trying to improve as a team, every player has to be this massive success, and sometimes, you know, looking at James Justin, he took you to settle in, then he became this really good player for last time, sometimes you need to have those working in the background because you need to come to the floor. And I think that's maybe where his role, where it will be good for him to come to Evan, but we'll see what happens. We'll see, but he's a very, very, very good prospect, and then finally, we've got someone who I would love and who is further on in his journey. His numbers aren't as good as the others, but he is a very, very good footballer, 12 months left. It is Dennis Sicariot, 24 years of age. He's played 23 games for Bruce Eamons in Gladbach this season, one goal, one assist. Progressive ball carries 3.81, a little bit less than the others. Shot creation is less, 1.06, tackles 1.85, less, interceptions 1.68, yeah, it's not bad, and ball pressure is slightly less at 12.8. Again, excuse me, could also, there's a caveat that that is out of team plays as well. He might have been told to sit off. No, it's also, if you look at what happened to Gladbach, they were really good in the first half of the season. I'm like a rose that announced he was leaving, and they fell off a cliff. I think they were one or two wins in my turn. It was similar things happened at Frankfurt now that Eddie Husser said he's leading to Gladbach. So yeah, I think managerial changes and they can have an effect on players and the positions. I think you've watched Dennis Sicari, I think the dates, the dates is fine anyway, it's not bad or nothing. Obviously compared, leagues make a difference as well of course. But I think with Dennis Sicari, I think of a 6-foot-3, really elegant mover, goes through the lines of this carry and goes past to the ball. To be wrong, he needs to become more consistent 24, he's getting to that age now where I think he will become, he's getting to his peaks. We will settle into the play he's going to become. I think under the right manager, I think sometimes he's been a player for two and a half, three years now. I think he may be now time for a move, I think Man City, and I think he can play two in the defensive midfield, he can do different roles. I think again that gives that versatility, probably will cost a little more than some of the others. You've only got 12 months left though on the field. Essentially yeah, so you've got about 20 million round there. 25 million. So yeah, you've got to play if you like them for years, he's a good player. Again I think sometimes the decision-making needs a little way for the rest of his games there. But do you think, would you be happy if Everton's bros? Yeah, I think I understand it, yeah. It fits the profile of what you want. Obviously the issue with Everton is obviously we're guessing the profiles. It's very hard because Carla won't like, say for example, a clop, a pep, a brawl fasnw. Hasn't got a set system. No, no. He's obviously managed to change depending on the opponent, depending on what he's got available. So I suppose we're guessing the profile he won in another midfield. He's got legs, bros has got that technical ability to bring other players in as well. He may want a different type of player, but this is what we're sort of working with now. Out of the five we've looked at them, who would be your pick? You probably think it's Tick Amara, but I think as Alan Age, I think he is probably going to become a six. So, and he's probably less face Italian than what he can do than the rest. So maybe we need, and Tom's already there. So maybe you don't need three players. You wouldn't want to play the six roles. So I'd take Anguisa. I'd probably take Sarl because if Cabaman's going to fit. I wouldn't take me those very well. Obviously, let's be honest, Rabio's the player. If I said to you now, you've got the final say on the five. Pick one forever. Yeah, I'd say Rabio was the man you could get. Let's be honest, Rabio is already, the others are good players. He's already shown at a level that they haven't reached. And he's only 25. It's not like I'm talking like he's 21 and he might show it soon. He's doing it. He's done it. So he's at a level above whatever he could probably get, similar to Hamas Rodriguez, not probably as good, but similar to Hamas Rodriguez in that sense. Yeah, it'd be a very big... And again, obviously the fact he's worked with Carlo before, and that keeps coming out how much he likes Anguilotti in this. A little bit like the Hamas stuff. The link has been there since almost 18 months. Immediately, it's Rabio when he wants to go there. I don't know, it'd be a fantastic sign. I think he'd give us, again, it's the physical side of the game. Lovely left foot, the balance, he can play with the left. Different things. I think he plays with France. They were fantastic. He's got Lucardine there as well. So there's a lot of things that would work, but... This Carlo pole people talk about, I think, you know, doing the wrong Hamas coming. He's 29, 30, Alan same age. If you can get someone who's in the peak, that shows that the pole's there. They'll be wrong. I think obviously people want to play for Carlo, but I think it'd be nice to see that later. You go, OK, if you spend money, then you can get some good players. I think they could wedge it out as well, obviously. No, I think you would. But he's not old, and you think I was here first time. No, no. Hamas are, but you think about people and they're just coming here to retire, but no, at his age, he's at his peak. Question why I want to come to have him, but then maybe he sees an opportunity in a challenge where it's something different for him or something like that. I don't know, but fingers crossed if he comes. It's just that we can get the deal done. Let's be honest. Any of those make us better and give us that mobility show. There you go. Let us know what you think in the comments section. Who would be your pick out of those, or have you got others? I know some people will have other players who we haven't mentioned. We could have had 10 coming on there. We could have kept on going and doing this. This looks clear. As you get into the summer and we hear more things and we see the way things are going, we'll do another one where we look a little bit more in depth. Beshwm has won. Yeah, of course. I think he's just going to be a bit. It's 40 million. 30, 40, 50. We've got to be careful what we're spending. We've got four positions to fill, five positions, whatever it is. If you need a one, great. Go and spend it all. I bet they'll build up a van dyg, for example. But if you need that more, you need to be a bit careful what you bought them. You've got to build the team first. Yeah, and then you can go. We just need one more player to go and spend 50 million. That's it, yeah. So, there you go. Big thanks to Andy. Give the video a thumbs up. Subscribe if you haven't. And if you want more videos, join us on Patreon. See you later.