 Welcome to Toffy TV's The Everton News Daily. Everton will make a decision on director of football, Marcel Brands's contract in January according to reports. He's into the final year of the initial three year contract that he signed in the summer of 2018. His position has long been debated as to whether it's going well or it isn't going well. Earlier in the summer, if you'd have read a lot of people's opinions on social media, you would have thought it wasn't going well. And he wouldn't get a contract renewal. A few transfer signings later and people wanting to stay. I think the general consensus of opinion is that he probably needs a bit more time since he's coming. He's had to concentrate on reducing the size of the squad from, you know, we've had so many players that he's had to get out the door. And according to the report, it looks as though Everton will sit down with him and discuss the next part of his plan. Brands, of course, is also a board member and he will be up for re-election at the ADM, which is due to take place in December. So that'll probably give you more of an indication as to whether or not he is intending to sign again. Reports today coming out of Turkey claim that Cenk Towson was close to moving back to Besiktas. According to Turkish Press, they said that Besiktas would have picked up Towson's wages as well as paid the loan fee for him. The Turkish striker isn't fit as currently recovering from an ACL injury but is rumoured to be back in training and will be 13 training in November sometime. Obviously he'll want games ahead of the 2021 Euros next summer. But apparently Besiktas pulled a plug when they learned that Towson had also been offered to Fennabaci and Galatasaray, which seems a bit strange because if they were ready to take him and he wanted to go back there while he didn't go through with it, but it always seemed more likely that it'd be a January move for Cenk Towson, he'd try and get himself fit and then maybe see how it goes, whether or not he's in Carlo Anciolotti's plans over the next couple of months. We'll have to wait and see. Janak Balasi expressed his disappointment at being left out of Everton's 25-man Premier League squad. Everton actually only named 23 players in that 25-man squad. There had been some thought that Balasi and Mohamed Besiktas would both be named in it because they're still here after certainly for Balasi a deadline day move to Middlesbrough fell through with the last minute. Balasi said he's very disappointed by the decision he felt as though he may be able to be part of Everton's squad, but doesn't look that way now, so you'd expect that both him and Mohamed Besiktas will be looking to leave the club in the January transfer window. Finally, Everton will make a decision on under-23 centre back pair Ryan Astley and Cornuza Nidus in January. Both players are out of contract next summer. Both have had a good start to the season with the 23s and Everton will make that decision on what happens next with them in January. That is it for your news day. Make sure you subscribe, give this video a thumbs up and if you want more videos, join us on Patreon. See you later.