 Welcome to Toffy TV. Me i'r Andy looked last week at centre-backs that Everton could potentially target, based on some data, and we're doing the same this week for midfield players, the midfield of Everton, which is one huge headache, one huge black hole of misery, that's what it looked like last season. It sucks in. It's just light. It does. We're hoping that this season it will be different. We know that, from various reports, Everton are looking at centre-miffield players, so we've put together a player profile, what we think they need, and we're going to go through. We've got a couple of options to look at, so the player profile we've looked at is got to be athletic, have a good engine, which I think is essential, because Everton's don't look like they are. A ball, win it? Yep, so we can turn over possession and get us on the front foot, yep. Good positional sense. Big case, if you look at that, especially the game against Chelsea, Everton remembers, and obviously more recent games, passing through the midfield, because the centre-mifields are really wide, leaving big gaps in areas, need people to stay in the positions and keep the structure. Disciplined, again, in that. Good answer is a patient, trying to nick the ball and get us going, get turnovers, and somebody progresses the ball forward. The manager said this when he came in, probably maybe even four weeks into it, even though we were doing all right, he said we don't pass the ball forward enough, and that was a theme that went right away through till the final game of the season against Bournemouth. You've got two young fast strikers, you want to hit them early and often, so one-on-one, two-v-three, wherever it may be, and we tend to pass the side. It gives teams, they're having them the silver as well, to be fair. I think it's something Martin has as well. We just allow teams too much time to reset, if you start putting the ball through the lines, they start panicking them. We just don't do it enough, we just allow teams too much time to get in the positions, and we lose momentum really, and the impetus really. And that's a big thing, I think with Everton is that, sometimes when we do have the opportunity to turn it over quickly, by the time we get ourselves settled, the defensive team has got the structure back. We're not quick enough to break them down, and I think it's a clear problem, and I think if Everton had to improve, then this is the area. We've got a bit of a root one with the first one, because it's Alan, and it's someone who obviously hasn't been linked with quite heavily since January, really. But again, so obviously Alan, 29 years of ages, the oldest one that we've got in the mix. He isn't there because we know the colour of his work with him, and he hasn't been linked with anyone. But going through with me, we've got tackles in the middle third, pay 90 this is, of course, pay again. 1.76 he's managing tackles. Which is good, actually. If you looked at, if you did total numbers, because he hasn't played, because obviously he fell out with the coach. So he's only played just over a thousand minutes this season, and he did it comparing to other midfielders who played two and three thousand minutes, slightly unfair. So if you do pay 90, obviously gives us a better look at it. In this case, 1.76, it's up in the higher echelons of Serie A now when he's playing in terms of doing that. For example, it's just over 1, surprisingly, and no other evident sense in the field that has more than 1.90, so that's a massive difference. So he's almost got, I mean, he's almost got a 2. Up a full one tackle again, yeah. So pressant in the middle third, pay 90? Yeah, so pressure basically means that obviously you're causing the player to go back, pass it backwards, you're pausing to make a mistake, bad touch, whatever. Alan does this 15 times game. We've talked about him before with Alan in terms of he's driving in position to the team to try and push teams back, put them under pressure, rather than letting them do what they want on the bow under no pressure at all, which I think unfortunately with, you know, playing Sigurdsson, Tom Davis, Andrew Gomez, they're not those type of all harassers really. You want somebody who harasses them around the pitch, pushes them back, causes them to make mistakes and obviously he can get taken over as a result of that. And I think that's what, you know, he's good at that's another good number as well. This is the next one is a possession of Justin Interceptions for 90, as I talked about last week, like to possession of just certain stats, so it's a more level playing field. 5.94 is not on the upper end, but also it is good. Syria is not a pressing league, as I've said. It's not a league of fortune to mistakes as much as maybe the Premier League or Germany. So numbers do tend to be slightly lower, but that is also a good number. And then we've got progressive passes by 90, 7.5, is accuracy with that is 75%, which is quite good to be fair. You know, 75% of passes that are there, that when he's in the opposition half, will go in 10 yards, or when he's in his own half, probably 10 to 15 yards through the lines forward. So that is good as well. And another number, obviously a progressive runs that means similar type of distances. If he's in the opposition half, he's carrying it over 10 yards, he's pushing the ball forward, carrying it through the lines, or he's starting attacks by carrying it up the pitch, attacking the space, when he's in his own half as well. And that's very important, because I don't think we have any bodied area that does that to any great level. No, Andrew Gomez isn't too bad in terms of doing that, but he's not that level, if I'm honest. Delf, surprisingly, he's not played a lot of minutes, whatever reason. Wasn't too bad either, again, now with the rest of sorely laughing. Compamence, sadly, you know, it's one and a half, it's such a small sample size. It was looked all right to be fair compared to, you know, but it's such a small sample. But that's the sad thing is you would have been a really good addition to this. I think you would have changed a lot of things for us. Well, Copamence, he was good at that for Mines anyway, wasn't he? And that's why he hadn't looked at him, because he was someone who could add a travel with the ball, or one of the, you know, he's got a great range of passion. And that's obviously why last summer Marcel Brands, Markham Silver as well, probably identified that in him. And I guess that's what Carlo Antolotti's been speaking about him this week, and saying he spoke to him and, you know, he's in good spirits, he's working hard, and he's not going to rush him back. And actually he said, you know, he had the similar thing, Carlo Antolotti, and his career, he had two big injuries, missed two years of football. But he didn't have the surgery for it as well, yeah. He didn't have the same level of surgery, and came back and still had a good career, and this is what he's saying to him. So, you know, but obviously, we're not really looking at Copamence at the minute, cos he's got to get himself to go, but he's hopefully going to go in. But I think, Alan, 29 is a big red flag, but the things that, I don't know whether they outwey it, but things that are the positive side as he's worked with Carlo Antolotti before, he's played in a 4-4-2, and he does something none of our Miffield players do, which is Harry, because he's set the tempo. He's, yeah, exactly, it's one of the drives teams forward, and he's like, you know, they call it a terrier, don't they Miffield? He's always trying to find, you know. And we need that, you know, if you look at the best teams, they always have what I call water. It's a bit of a slight number of water, Harry. He's a better player than that, to be fair. But you need those players, you're able to win the ball back, prep what teams under pressure, and then give it to the better players. Everton, as we've discussed most of it, generally we've got some nice footballs around the team. We like that bite, we like that edge, we like that energy. And you need those type of players, like Garnagay, James McCarthy, Gareth Barry at times. Tempo-setters, no. I don't mean necessarily the speed which we play at, but the set the marker down for people. Peter Reid used to do it, and he was great at that in the 80s. And we had, I suppose, when you're in the 90s, you'd had like Joe Parkinson and people like that doing it, as you've gone through, and then, you know, Moise had Lee Carsley, I guess, doing it to a lesser degree, but someone who would break stuff up, but someone who would go and put a tackle in and make your team mate, kind of go, I need to be doing that as well, so I'll go and hit it. Because I think we've said many times, Everton, team is full of passive players, passive characters. Characters who, when everything's nice, they look good footballers, but the minute there's a little bit of going against them, they all go into the shell, they crumble too easily. And I think people like Alan, he's got that fiery nature about him that will go after a ball. Yeah, definitely, and I think it's a mentality thing as well. I've got me wrong, you know, I've got me worried about Alan, I think he's a good player, I've got me wrong, there's no denying that, I'm not saying he's finished at 29, he's never played in this league before though, Italy, some players have come over here and done well, some players haven't, he's an Italian to be fair, so that does help him in a sense about coming over here, but it is a slight worry, because if you've given it at 29, you know, the four or five you deal, you take him into the territory where they are, it would be likely to be declined and still paying them big money. So that's something for us to consider, but then you have a look at the positives that, as you say, he does know Carl, he's played in the system before, mentality, personality type, he is someone that will help the rest of the team. What if they offered him a three-year deal, and he was happy with that? Didn't find yet. Does that give you a bit more confidence? Yeah, taking me fine and my personal choices off, yes, you know, I understand it. As I said before, sometimes you'll always agree with deals or decisions made, you have to understand them from a manager perspective, and from a director of football trying to please the manager and get the right pieces inside. I understand why they go for Alan, but I do it no, but that doesn't mean I'm right. It just means that's my personal opinion. I completely understand that. He's played at a high level, you know, he's played on some good managers as well, to be fair. He's gone, because who's so ugly, he's played the car, and sorry, or everything's sorry, obviously he got the best out of him. That's why he moved here. He was good at using the easy, right? So moving on then, that's Alan. He was a little bit root one. The next one we've got is one on my. I mean, this is someone who I will buy with Alan. To be honest, you've got one for now and one to develop, but this fella, a bang on of Aram all the time. We both do, we both bang on of Aram. He's 22 years of age, a lot of growing to do, I mean, in terms of experience, but it is Ibrahim, Sangaria, Toulouse. Six for four got all the attributes, I think, I think of it in me. The second most tackles in Europe behind Busquets, I think it was, someone put something up the other day in terms of breaking the play-up. You play like double a minute, Alan played this season. He played in one of the worst teams I've ever seen in France to lose, they were really bad. I think it did affect people's opinion of him because he plays in such a bad team. But you look at the numbers again, similar again, you've got 1.65 tackles per game, as I said, none of our plays really average one apart from Sigurdtson, which again is still surprising. But again, that's what we need. It was better last season to be fair. Pressing in the middle, again, it's not as good as Alan, but France, again, is not the Pressing League. It's actually a league that's weirdly, a fairly old-style way of playing. Obviously, Germany, the Gag and Pressing, and the PEP way of pressing in Spain. That doesn't really apply to France as much. Obviously, the top teams don't need to do it as much as they're so good, like PSG, but that's why the Pressing numbers aren't, but you can get about the pitch, big long strike, close the space very quickly. And when he's, he can play to a number of different roles in the field, so he can do a box-to-box role, and he can also do, that's the sixth role. So he can do either role, really. And I think for 12 to 15 million pounds, and the potential adds, because I know there's a couple of worries about certain things, but you're not going to find many, but you know, again, possession just better than Alan's really, or just under Alan's, sorry, 6.54, progressive passes 9.18, which is better than Alan. Actually, Zac, if he's 82%, so maybe this technique thing is a bit, well, you know, a bit longer. You know, he's a bit lanky, and he looks a bit awkward sometimes when he runs, but when he gets in full flight, and that last season, again, progressive runs, the season's down to one. He was much higher than that last season. I think there's a lot more to come to this lad. He was in a better team. The sky's the limit. There was an article in Gold, a year and a half ago, I think it was about how he could be the next year, or I wouldn't go that far because that's quite high, but he has got that ability to do things in the final. He can be like that, yeah. That's what he reminds me of. I've done tackles in the middle there for this, because I haven't really need to start here in the ball up over the high on the pitch, but again, with these players, similar theme, again, with Alan Leso, because he's in a better team, but with Sangai and the next guy I'll have to show, over 1.5 tackles in the defensive there, as well, so they're getting back, winning the ball back for the team. So it's very important. This lad is what I call a ball winner. He's got a lot of tackles, which we all love going again. I'm not saying he's as good as going again, but he's a player who can win the ball back, and he's got a great range of pass, and don't be wrong, he still needs to get better in terms of execution, but he's the type of player. For 1.15, why not take a flyer? At the end of the day, as we've discussed, we're not going to get perfect players. We need players who can give the ball to better players, and he's capable of winning the back and driving us forward. He's an athlete. He's got enough athletes, and he's at 6-4-4. I think there's games that we get bullied in, particularly when we've got Tom Davies and Andre Gomez. We just get bullied all over the pitch, and you've got a big monster in this. 6-4-4 can get about the pitch, but can play as well. I think it sets the tempo for the rest of your team as well. But I would certainly at 12-15 million quid, to me, I'm struggling to understand why I haven't made a move. I don't get it. I've had a couple of bits and pieces about some concerns over the technical, like where the most technically gifted football team on the planet is. It's the school of thought, really. This is something I hadn't thought about before, but I should have, really. You sort of brought it to life to me. Brands come from the Dutch school, and if you look at the best Dutch teams, they never have destroyers in midfield. They always have finesse midfielders, players who win the ball back, pass it. They don't really buy destroyers. That isn't their game. You look at Frankie Deong last season. He played a 6, but he's not any type of destroyer. And maybe that's where brands has to come round to a more half-dutch half-English way of thinking, where you do need a bit of a blend in the Premier League. You've managed to sit, and for Andy, he was a great footballer, of course, he is. But he does the dirty things. You need to be smart. You need energy in that midfield, and I think that's where we just need to tweak out the players in that area, really. No, Greg, that's still my time. Brands has bought good players, and they've probably bought those players for PSV. They'd be brilliant, because that league is different. But this is the Premier League, and this is cutting thrust, and this is competitiveness, and this is athleticism. They've improved Manchester City full of athletes. Chelsea have done well this season because they've got more athletic players in than maybe Sharia. Last year, it was a little bit slower, and some teams were picking them off. This year, Lampard's have mountain there. He's had Barclay in there. Williams back in 1905. So they've had a little bit more. Leicester have done well, because they're quite an athletic team. Stop on. Indeed, the people, when indeed he first came to the Premier League, he was the most technical proficient. Still on the ball back, still give it a better place. Again, you can't have eleven well-class footballers. You need Casamiro for Real Madrid. You need those type of players. Casamiro is a very good player, but he also does the dirty work. Buskets go football and don't get me wrong. But he sacrificed a lot of his game to do the dirty work, because no-one else does it, which is what you need, Pep. Pep did it well, a bit more flashy than Buskets, but that's what you need to do. I think we just need to change our thinking slightly. I think all the time in the world for people saying, I'm worried about his technique, under pressure, whatever, we need ball winners at the end of the day to flow the game, go one way against us. Primarily, if you break it down, if you can compete and win the ball back, then you give it to your good footballers and your good footballers do the rest. But if you can have eleven good footballers in your team, if you can't battle and you can't scrap, it's to me, it's one of the reasons why Evans away there, though, is so bad. Okay, we ended up with five away wins this year. Not great. But it was more than we got in recent times. And for me, too many occasions, we go away and things are a little bit difficult. The crowd are up a little bit, or there's people getting stuck in. We just wilt because we like to have good footballers in the team. We haven't got competitors in the team. And yet, you look at, you think of, like, Moises team, it was able to go and get nine away wins one season and eight away wins another without having the greatest footballers. Now, you packed the footballers playing in the peripheral wing positions, did the R-tet and P-na, and then you had all the workers in the middle. And it worked. I'm not saying we should go back to being the Moises team because we need that extra touch of quality. You just got salt bite there. Yeah, I did go salt bite. But you need the people to do that. You know, Evans is a great example. Paul Pogba, wonderful footballer. However, he always needs people to do the day that he had matched his show. And Matt Reedy to do the day, same with France. If you've got good footballers, you still need people to do the in-between work. And he's had his best when Matt is just playing well because he didn't do enough footballers in his show. Sangari, for me, is a no-brainer. Absolute no-brainer. I still scratch me out as to why we haven't just gone and got it done. 15 million, even if it was 15 million. Get him a 22, five-year deal, three million a season. Wesh, you're going to have someone who can come in and play. He just offers us something completely different than what we've got. I think the problem with the Premier League is sometimes it's overthought, sometimes what you need. You need to have these perfect players straight away. Sometimes you don't look at it as it's able, sometimes it's a prime example. 100%. Next one is someone I haven't been linked with earlier in the year, Baptiste Santamaria at Ange. Well, great name. 25 years of age, good six foot one, good pass out of the ball, can break stuff up as well. I believe if you're looking between, if you believe in reports out of France, between eight and 15 million euros, which again, to me, is when we've, that's the thing, when we've spent money in the past, we've just seen to have spent ridiculous amounts of money on players who aren't physically able to cope in the Premier League. You look at it, I was doing a podcast this morning for my company, talking about Keppar, I imagine Chelsea had a middle of the league all, he did much better. Imagine Everton had a middle of the league midfield all season. We would have been pushing at least Europa League at the end of the day. That's the difference. Now, obviously we don't like obviously champions. We finished nine points off Europa League, I think. Ten points off the Europa League. Four games essentially. Four games essentially. We need just people who can take the games in our favour with hard work and winning the ball back and doing the little things. We've stressed on a lot of this one, but it's true. This lad is a little bit more more refined, more smoother edges than the Sangari. He's a bit older of course, so you've got a factor then seeing with Alan Allen's obviously 29. He's the player he's going to be now, isn't he? Batti Sanserby, I describe him as basically a more mobile Morgan Schneider than he plays a forward all the time which he is, and now people go, Morgan Schneider, but if you watch him now he gets about the pitch, can do the finesse, can do the data, can get range of pass. You watch the passes, he's putting them on a 20p piece over the top of the pitch. Shoot some 40 yards as well. I've always got time for him to feel there's wind in the ball. He just does all the things you need to do. He gets forward and get back, he plays. Times ends up on the edge of the box, but he's just someone who's infectious. I was a bit on the fence with him when I first started watching him, because he does remember Schneider on the times, but not in the bad way. When I say like Schneider, he does pass the ball away, he's been a class about him, but also he can do the data stuff as well, and as I say, much more mobile on Schneider, and he's better, he moves the ball forward rather than side to side. Let me just stress that he is much more mobile on Morgan Schneider, and he does pass the ball forward, and he shoots. So really the fact that he's six foot on French, I think that's what Andy, sometimes he has a little goatee big. It's the style of player more than wow they are exactly. Sometimes I watch a player in the way that you run and go, he reminds me so and so. But he is a talent, and I think he's gone under the radar, he's probably a bit of a late developer, again for the price. We'll look at the numbers here, 1.62, just short what Sangare is doing in France. Press in the middle, 12.4, best in Sangare. That's the lowest one, I'm not too sure why that's so low, but that might be an outlier. I think that's the best number of accuracy through Allen as well, and progressive runs. Again it's not the style of the team he doesn't do that and Brie is very capable of always watching them last night. You can pick the ball up and move the ball up, but I think sometimes you can face basically the way that Sangare plays, sometimes numbers can be affected by tactics. The way that Sangare played is they usually he would get the ball and then he starts to spray the pass 50 yards to the feet, and that's what they do well. He would drive us forward. He can do the bit, he's seen him against Arsenal, carried the ball 40 yards, and then slag on round the corner, and he's gone from it. I've seen him chasing back and leaving people who were much quicker. In fact he's on a sprint with the Bamiang on one of the things, he catches the Bamiang up, wins the ball and comes out with it. He's a good player. The problem is I think he's one of those players that, like I said to you last night, he's probably on the list, I've got no doubt he might be fifth or sixth rather than first because he's not that flashy. I think he's the type of player we need. I mean, we're talking here about Ibrahim Sangare, we're talking about Batti Santamariae, we're talking about Everton trying to get people in for Carla Montiolotti, and we're outspending the ridiculous amount of money. Don't you think it makes sense that they'd go and get someone but they outlay? Like I said, 8 million to 50 million euros I've seen quota for him. If it was 8 million for example, there's no loss. So why aren't we going like you're in day one, get them in, Everton have signed, Batti Santamariae, 12 million euros or whatever, job done. Day one in training. It's probably because there's probably I guess there's probably higher profile or more options that you think of a higher level, which is what teams tend to do. Often obviously you've got lists of between one and 10 players, your priority or the other. As I say, I suspect that Santamariae is definitely on the list on probably 4th, 5th, 6th, and it's until you get down there, you see probably a Helen, it's probably 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, whatever he is, and it's probably Hoybeg was probably number one I guess since we went from first, and that's the problem, you go down the list. Now Hoybeg again, he's not on this video but he would have been, the numbers wouldn't be perfect because he's hired most of these, even when he plays in this league. So our league is much more frenetic and obviously a lot more pressing in this league, but again, that's the way to recruitment students, obviously if you're a top fighter and then you get down but these are not less of people it's just that the nor is what's the word, the nor is sexy. That's the word, and even to recruit you know, at the end of the day people are working recruitments around the human. It's very hard to make a sacrifice still like that. Don't we, listen, there's been something out today that showing evidence for transfer window in this year, he come in almost £450 million spent. Isn't it time that we started putting the jigsaw together without going well, you know what, see him over there, he plays for them and he's worth £30 million, he's a good player rather than going, he is a decent player but see this kid here who's £8 million quid, he's going to actually do the job we need and we don't care whether he's coming from on to you, can he do the job, is he physical? Yes. Can he get around a pitch? Yes. Can he pass a football? Yes, right. You're coming in and you're in because you are physical. The French league is probably the closest to the... Bundesliga is not too far away to be fair. The league is slower, seriat slower. High technical, both of them are slower quality. Bundesliga and French league, but I'd say the French league slightly quicker than the Bundesliga, physically wise as well in terms of being able to... High to the centre back, so I think the defence will be in, get them plays in and go let's start piecing the jigsaw, right. When people want to tear everything up, which they did after the moment, I get it, I get it, but I look at it, try to look at it and just go hang on, we can't do that for whatever reason so let's look and how can we make this better and I still think we've got eight, nine in the squad who are good players to do and I think there's room for a couple more to grow. They have to pull a level up. The level stays where they are, they're not pulling a level up, but then if you start putting the pieces in properly, it makes everybody look better and then you get through then the next summer you need three or four and you get some of them up and you bring them and then all of a sudden you've gone up whereas Everton just saying to still be a little bit grabbing and hoping. Yeah I agree and there's a lot of... they feel there's our main issue really, and it's true that we don't we're not looking for play. It's hard to say what they're looking for because I'm sure it is, but we need to find these solutions for the right players. You don't always have to be 30 million players, you don't to find solutions. Take the pressure off them as well. I'll live up to your sign why now I'll do, when you've got relegates with Newcastle, Jordan Endeson who has tried to sell by the way, four o'clock up there. It's hard to sell them, one o'clock up there. Exactly, for being always a right back in France and people who play a bit of defence in the field for things, but all these players have worked out a bit to plug them in. You don't always have to spend, like I know they've got Naby Cater, but there's other teams who've done it as well. You don't always need these premium sentiment fielders from Champions League clubs or trendy clubs like Lille or I don't know, I don't know. You need those players who are going to allow your players to play, and I think the wingers as well, they've got Wobie Bernard, Gordon, Walcott, whoever else comes in, they all need to go up a level no matter what. I don't find them when they want the ball early rather because we're passing the ball back, they all have to come into their own half to get the ball. You don't want people in their own half all the time, you want people on the half-time pushing up the pitch which is where they're all best at. Well they do the damage on the exit of people's box. Exactly, so these are the type of midfielders that we need, winning the ball early and transitioning quickly is what we need. Well there's one more on the list and this fella is on the list because he's been linked with us. He's played in the Premier League, he's a good footballer, and he is Abdelai D'Cory at Wofford. Now, I know I'm just going to give you the plus points and then you can give me all the plus points you like. You can poo poo the idea all you want. And this isn't me saying I want him, I'm just saying a reason why I think he would improve Everton, without not even looking at his numbers just at the moment, but he's over six foot. Six foot two, yeah? He can get up and down a pitch, get to down a pitch really well. The one thing he's got that none of the other ones have got that we've put on and nobody at Everton have got in a central position is he scores goals. He does. He gets into the penalty area and puts the ball in the net. More than any other centre, he gets into the penalty area last season, I haven't checked numbers this season, more than any other centre in my field in Europe. Now what I would say is he's been at Wofford three seasons, first season he got seven, second season he got four, but he's had they got worse also. Yeah, I think he's but they were poor, and I think he's a sister of somewhere about five in each season. Like those kind of numbers are better than any of our wingers or midfield players. And I get it, I get it, I think if he played in our midfield he wouldn't be able to play with Gomez probably because neither of them can do that job. If you put three in there then maybe you could. If you had one who could do the job on those, it would have been quite a nice mix of midfield. I think if you put them in with someone like Santa Maria or Sangari or even Alan, even Alan maybe, I think he'd be fine. So that's their all the plus points for me. The goal thing is huge I think and the Premier League experience because he's somebody who if you've got five goals from a central position in midfield for evidence, it would make a huge difference. He's good on the ball as well a good runner. So they're all a positive stuff for him. Negative stuff is he's going to be 28 this season. Woff would probably want 25 million I guess for him. Maybe they want him out of the club now and off the wage bill, who knows. I still don't think 25 million is that much of a stretch for someone with Premier League experience who's different from what we've got. Go. For example, right, if we were looking for someone to play with Gabamon then I'd probably be all for it maybe. Sands the age, I'd probably be all for it because Gabamon can sit and he moves on. The issue is right now is now Gabamon being fit I've still got Tom Davis with me I've got Gilffy Sigardsson hopefully not all of them next season. He goes to that category though because he isn't a defensive midfielder. I don't mean wrong he can't play defensive midfield but I think he's the ball winner in that midfield. He's the structure of that midfield and what we need is someone to add structures in the midfield. Shouldn't we be looking for two? No, I agree with that part of it but the problem is I think we need two defensive midfield. Not only that, because Gabamon can play box-to-box in the last season of our minds, he played as a box-to-box because Pierre Conde played defensive midfield. It's really key though that we'd sign, if you played them in Gomez we're still going to have the same structural problems and obviously Gabamon I've done my wrong too I go on the basis that it's probably going to be only be one. I think we need two, I've got no doubts about that but I go on the basis that it'll only be one because I don't think we're signing five players and I think we need four positions. So, if it's one it can't be him being the one because he doesn't have that structure that screen in the back four, the ball winning ability because we're just looking at his numbers a second similar numbers to Tom Davies in terms of tackles which don't be wrong, I think he's better than that because he can't win the ball but pressing good because we're pressing the sleep 13 points for pressure pressure's in the middle third possession is similar to Santa Maria not as high as it should be and progressive pass is 5.35 and that's his main issue he's better as an off-ball runner into the box rather than someone in build-up now if he was playing with Gomez, fine but I think if they may feel and I actually don't think he's that great technically he's good technically I don't think Sangari's much worse though which is the funny point about him under pressure, to Corey can sometimes make the bad decisions the wrong pass so that's why I have the issue with that Sangari, even him Sangari not being good enough technically or whatever, we'll move on from there I think to Corey is a good player and what you do say about getting in the box is really key because we just don't have that we haven't had that since probably in Osmond or Cale in Cale it was a bit fair to fall but we had the similar type of player got near the box and scored four or five a season every season in Osmond's case the talent, yes, the fit, no and that's, I think, like I say to people we can have all the talent in the world people are like oh well we won't sign so and so you have to fit, you have to be the right fit forever and sadly at this point in time a box to box would feel that like to Corey of his type isn't the right fit for what we need but he is a good player, there's no doubting about that I think sadly for him a move probably is coming a year and a half, too late maybe if he moved in Silver's first season I think he was one of the three players I'd say it was for Charleston, Andrew Curio where's he now, we're going to come and if he got them then great imagine him and Garnagay, you know what I mean that would have been perfect, what we did and I think he's a bit, I think he'll probably get a good move somewhere but I don't think it's the right time for him to have it any more 1.76 progressive ones which is his key because he can drive if you watch him there's been a couple of times where he's picked the ball and the edge was penalty and he ended up in the box nearly you can do that, a big powerful run is strong put defenders on the back foot again though Andrew Gomez should be that type in the field for us, we'll see whether that happens but I think we need someone to add the key is cutting down on the amount of easy chances that come through midfield because you're leaving too much pressure on your centre backs What if we went for true though would that make it easier for you? If it was him and Santa Maria then yes because then you'd have the four then you'd have Gabarman who can play defensive of the field, you'd have Santa Maria so you'd have them two and then you'd have the two box to box players and then you've all scored Gabarman who can play with any of them really because he can play both positions then yes but I don't see it's a one but 27 as well if you get before your deal 31 fine it's when he's a late starter so he starts playing first he's 22-23 anyway so he's got a lot of advantage left I mean that's fair enough if you're talking about one position that's the way I look at it if it's going to be two and you're looking to match it up then I think he makes sense because he's got the experience there's no need for him to acclimatise knows the game, gets up and down can he compete, yes he can got something we haven't got which is goals in him which we don't have makes a massive difference there you go that's me and Andy there are several options for centre of midfield it's a massive area it's why I would certainly be looking for two this summer no doubt about it and if it was Alan for 30 million or if it was Shangari and Santa Maria for 30 million I know which I'd be taking that's not me saying I don't want Alan that's just me saying it makes sense to get two in an area which we are poor let's be honest about it big thanks to you and let us know what you think in the comments section below what options we've chosen which you think fits Evan best or is the people we've missed off who you think we should have had in here as well this is just us looking at some profiles and what we think Evan need make sure you give this video a thumbs up subscribe if you haven't if you haven't why haven't you and if you want more videos get over and join us on Patreon and Andy will be doing this kind of stuff throughout the season as well see you later