 Well, on the Toffey TV, we are here to talk about Fabian Delph to Everton. There's been strong links, number of clubs interested in Fabian Delph. Everton, apparently, are one of them and we are going to have a chat about it because it's quiet, so we're going to chat about this, this story. Joibai Andy at El Pavote FTBL on Twitter. Give him a follow. Andy, y'r initial thought on Fabian Delph potentially going to Everton. I suppose, like with, like, I put my hat on instead of the analytical hat on. Instantly, it's like, oh, Fabian Delph. It's a bit deflating, but when you put your analytical hat on, you think about it. It makes more sense in the sense that, you know, as people have said, you need a bit of leadership. You know, he's come from Manchester City, he's won things, we've had that. He is one fit of good player, you know, he can play left-back, centre-back, left-back, centre-back field, possibly right-back if you need him to. See, that versatility, there's a squad of guests, you know, adds a midfield, you know, a premiership midfield and who's got experience in the premiership, so, you know, it's not the worst sign you can make, it's not like a bad sign. It wouldn't be a bad sign, but obviously, you know, fans have expectations, I suppose, as you said previously, off-camera. If it was just Fabian Delph the whole summer, then you'd be upset, but it won't be. He's part of a plan, so, you know, it wouldn't be a bad sign, I guess. I think that's it. It's not the most spectacular of sign, so, therefore, people will be, like, deflating with Barrow, the dumb like Barrow, what are we doing this for? But you look at, when you're putting the jigsaw together, it takes all kinds of pieces. One thing people banged on about last season, us as well, is lack of leaders. In those months, those three months when it seemed like everything went wrong, and it near enough did, for a good few weeks there, we all moaned, I mean, I'm done about it yourself, but me and Peds say it need to be moaned, a lack of leaders in that team, you know, a watch the all or nothing documentary about Manchester City, and this lad came out of it, apart from Bradley, the kitman, this fella came out the best, I would say, out of it in terms of the people who are taking pep out of it, obviously. From the players' perspective, because you could see how much he was firing them up, when they'd had the defeat, the anger on them, the unacceptable, blah, blah, he was the one G in them up. I don't know, there could be eight, seven players who could do that in the session, we don't know, because there's no cameras in there, but he was one who looked at them and said, you know what, he really impressed me with that. I'm not saying that just today, because I haven't been linked with him, that's just the thing. Wherever he goes, I come out of that documentary thinking, say what, Delph, he comes across well, and you can understand why Guardiola likes him, knows what he's getting. And I suppose the appeal to someone like Marco Silver and Marcel Brande is exactly what you've just said there, he's based a tile, can play left back, centre midfield, left midfield, right midfield, right back. If you've got to play it as well as all of those business you'll either, in your squad, it can bring out the best in other players, if you've got them to knit it together. I think obviously Manchester City, as you say Pep does like him, I don't think he's getting rid of them lightly, but they are brought in obviously, they've brought in Roger, he's based centre midfield, so obviously they've got Sanchenko, Mendy and they've brought Anglino back from the back. So he hasn't really got a place, and obviously they haven't really got 25 men in the squad. He is a good player, people have seen him over the years for England, he'd add something against the side, and I don't think he'd be a first choice starter, but then again you need to be able to run eight different looks. You can play him in a 4-3-3 with Gomez and Guy, Guy can obviously then push on, he can sit in a sort of more of a six if you like, so there is options there. If you're any one of your other side, I find your players, as people know I'm a predominantly, it's one that's signed 26 and on there. Is it the way, he's probably going to want a lot of money, so if you put 180k for three years, is he going to be a useful member of the squad for three years? Who knows, he has had his injury problems. It becomes hard to get off the books at that stage, but you've got to trust my sub-brands, he's obviously planning short, medium and long term, he probably sees Delf as someone who can add that leadership, add that experience, add that basic utility to the side. And he can probably bring other players along, you've got a couple of younger fielders like Joe Williams and people who are on the fringe of the first team, that sort of experience can help us over. Tom Davis? Tom Davis of course, that is a key year for Tom as well, since he doesn't need to sort of stop the stones. I mean should we as fans worry about whether we're going to be able to get them off the waves? Probably not, no, but then again, if you look at the situation now, it does hold us back from buying new players. I'll just say it. I think 10, 15 years ago, no, it wouldn't have been a single thought in your mind, because you were understanding the best player. It doesn't matter how much it costs, how old they are. But now it's because we understand more and for both sort of opened up more, sort of opened the doors more, that we understand that with FFP. You need to think long term, short term, and since if you have got some on your books, like Morgan Schneider, the news, you know, £100,000 a week. Is he a good player? We liked him at the end of last season, but a back-up in your forwards play. So essentially, if it was Schneider and Andalf, it's £180,000 a week, say his back-ups, that's a lot of money. So it's something to the consideration of sure brands and silver would have looked at this stone. They probably would wear up the odds. I think he's not a bad player, as I said, initially I was like, oh, Fabian Delph, but the more you think about it, the more it sort of makes sense. If you predominantly buy players, though, between 20 and 26, which we know they're the key parameters that are operating in now, which is fantastic. You can afford one who's more experienced than that, because the ideal teams are teams made up with different ages, obviously. That is the key, but then you look at, so people use Manchester City, I've got to hold the players when they want it, but then players have been there for years. I suppose it's a long-awaiting project in the back. If you buy 10 players, or 15 players over a couple of years, who are 20 to 26, those who are 26 by the end of that project will be what? 29, 30, 31, so they'll be experienced players, but obviously I need to fill in that gap, because we're only starting to fill the squad from last season. I know we have bought players previously, and the machinery wasn't the best tracers, so we're now having to fill that gap. Someone like Delpho filled the gap, while those players like Sigurds and Guy, you know, Cormans, getting up in age, all that, and obviously Deans, now 26, Gomez is now 26, so they're also going to fill that gap in as well. So it's just, I think, in a short term, it's something to fill that leadership gap. Is the question then, really, for him, when you're weighing up a move for him, is he better than what we've got? So, if you're saying, okay, say Ebiton Smithfield has finished the season, Ghana, Gomez, and Sigurdsson, at the moment all three play for us. Gomez has just signed, Guilfee's not going anywhere, Ghana, I guess, probably isn't going to go anywhere, but, you know, we can't say 100% because the wind is open. So, say that the call three in the middle of the park, then is Delph better than Schneidlin? Is he better than James McCarty? Is he a better option than Tom Davies? Is he a better option than Mo Bezzich? These are all in our books. On the last one, yes. But the rest of them, you could have considered. So there are all different types of players. With Schneidlin, he is a classic number six, sets deep, just patrols the back four. Delph's a bit more of a better passer, breaks the lines a bit more than your Ghana, I suppose. He courses for courses, since a certain teams, Delph might be a better player because you're trying to break his side down. He's not coming on to you, but then you miss games tackling, then I guess. So it just depends. He obviously offers just that ability to play four, three, three. Obviously if, say for example, you know, touch wood wherever wood is, but you know, touch wood to look at teams and get injured. If we can't play Bane's long term because he has declined to play a bit more, obviously he can use an option at left back. Another concern, we discussed what leadership is, we did buy, we did try this before we bought Rooney class. You know, the captains of their prospective national teams and teams didn't really work with them. Agreed, agreed. Di ka fiat y dda. And by the way, I'm not flying the flag. No, I understand it's obviously out of a different perspective. No, no, I wasn't saying this. There was no plan when we bought those players where there's... I understand every editorian who will still think back to those days because I do it myself. I still think back and go, well, we've done this wrong, but I have to keep going. Well, I'm going, we did press the reset button last summer. We changed the structure, we brought someone in who's driving the bus now. We've got a manager in who knows how it works and it's hungry young manager and wants these players. So I look at it and go, OK, well, we almost have to scrub everything pre-2018, really. And go, well, these are generally bought well so far, haven't they? I think we've all agreed that one week. So for him coming in, this should be the first leadership type sand that this industry has had. He's done it before a PSV. I know obviously his main thing is bringing youth from youth set up on buying players between the years of 19 and 25. He did buy Andres Goddard, he did buy Hector Moreno, Daniel Schwab, we were all the players. We were all a bit cheaper than possibly the Delford B, but what they did is add that experience to get them over the line. And obviously with this year, I don't want us just to push this year because I want to sustain success, but this is an opportunity to try and get on the Champions League. I suppose a player like him who knows how to play those big games, who understands that you have to be... Consistency. He's someone who has been in a team which has been consistent week on week continuously, and they don't let up, so that sort of experience will be valuable if we are trying to win a trophy, or we are trying to get top four, which is obviously very important. So it makes a logical sense. I think Marcel Brands is not someone who just buy a player because he's old. He's buying the right player because he fits what he wants. And as I say, it sort of gives you the option where Garnan can have a rest, he can have a rest. He can play both positions, he can play as more of a forward. I think in the field or he can play as a deeper line in the field. So he offers us options. I think the other type of squad plays you want. As I say, I'm fairly... I call it in the view that it should be the only players under 26, but I understand why we're looking... The one thing before we finish, what I would say is what you hope is that there's no drop-off in quality with plays you've got. And last season, I think the manager was terrified to make changes because I don't think he felt he couldn't trust anything more than... It's the young players as well. When your manager is under pressure, you look at Sam Ardice because of all the situations he's had. I don't know the manager like Tony Pulas. I'm not saying I'm out of self-sentence and like them, but however, is when you go in from these five game spades, where you lose five games at the moment, you could be in trouble. You tend to rely on your theoretical walk-offs because he's older, more experienced. He's more consistent, whereas if you're Tom Davies, so you add them all up and comes in, and they make you a steak and they come as back. You've got to be smart like that. And I think as Silver gets his feet more under the table, he will trust them players more. As I say, he's still got this... I think still, you know, the work that we finished last season, he's still got, and it is probably... We've got to get your up this season. It's a minimum, really, for me. I think the sheet he said to me and Brans probably told him, it's your up this season, so that's a minimum requirement. And having someone like that, for me, you guys should say, you can take in two and say, I'm happy when you go into the field. You know, Tom, you know, it's been a tough game for you. I'm going to have Fabian in today. I think that's something you need in this ward, yeah. I think if you can make changes on your level and remain as special, that's how you progress. You don't... Having unknown quantities doesn't always help you. No, that's why I think what Marcel Brans is doing is he's building a squad, which we've got a, like, a shell of a squad in a sense, where if you have got these players who can play in the premiership to a certain level, and then they're going to... and then maybe next to that, someone has to stop buying those gems as we call them, those unknow blade, because then they can go into a squad that's racing to keep them, and they don't have to step in straight away with us now. You know, say, Gay got injured long time, or Gomez got injured long time, or Mdelf out and... If something... Tom Davis came in great, because I do like Tom, but, you know, if things went wrong, Tom's going to take the blame, whereas, you know, Mdelf's more experienced player can take that on his shoulders. That can be the difference. There you go. Let us know what you think in the comments below. Would he be a good sign for Everton? Is it something Everton should go after, or would you rather Everton stay the way from this type of sign? Or are you one of those now who just goes, if Silver and Brans won him, it's good enough for me. We'll see how he plays out, because... I know what Andy's saying. We've been bad a little bit in the past, of course. We have a couple of seasons ago, and we've still got players from the community that we wish we didn't have, but I would still say he's a level up. I would say Brans would look into it, you know, beyond belief. You don't know exactly what he can provide. So, you've got to trust Marcell Brans. Some people are saying he's only bought so-and-so from Chelsea, or so-and-so from Barcelona. You're just trying to pick efficiencies, and you know what Evan's going to get him for. It's not a bad sign, bro. It makes us better, at least, for you. There you go. Let us know it. I mean, listen, you might not even end up here, but Everton apparently interested in him, along with other clubs. So, would he be a good sign for Evan? Let us know what you think in the comments below. Give us a subscribe if you haven't taken a check, and if you want more videos, get over and join us on page. Big thanks to Andy. See you later.