 Hello. Welcome to Traffy TV's right here today. Er is the Premier League season, it does receive, I believe it or not. And we thought we'd have a chat about how the season has gone so far in the hope that it almost buries the ghosts of it and it's almost like a reset and we start a fresh unbox and that's what I'm hoping for. It's almost like a... Put it to bed. Put it to bed and it's part two and three of the season still to come, the best, the best bit of the season. And then there's part three come. Hopefully part three come during about March and we'll see if we can just chill. Er it does, it is back. We've just had the Whale Cut which was obviously a tremendous football tournament ended in the correct manner with and Lionel Messi winning the Whale Cut which was great. How do you want Brazil to win it? I did but it's the way it's finished with Messi. I did say Brazil or Messi to win it out that you know. And now we're into the stage where it's back to worrying about everything. Hopefully with a bit less worry but... Do you feel a bit refreshed that we had that break? I feel massively refreshed but I don't feel any more confident about everything. I feel massively refreshed that having no football was fantastic. I mean that in the purest sense just having not to worry about something for a few weeks and trying to recharge the batteries and hope that when Monday does come round there is that little bit of optimism and that you know. Because it has felt like never ending and it wasn't like a pre-season was it? It was like a proper distraction the Whale Cut. Everything stopped, there was nothing. There was no real links, no real talk. You didn't have to fill the space with something because there was nothing else to talk about. It was a full on distraction and I really enjoyed that. Do you think because of the way the trauma of last season because it was traumatic wasn't it? We had a laugh few months. I don't think neither of us slept very well at all. We've had a trauma in building up to that obviously the Palace Game and we got the outcome we wanted and all that and it should... It was a great outcome of a shocking situation and frankly I haven't should never have been in. The pre-season was short there. The Whale Cut was a distraction for a lot of things. All of a sudden it was back on us quicker than it was and it hasn't gone the way we'd hoped. Do you think that everyone's feeling as bad because it's just felt almost like the two seasons have bled in someone? So it's even though we ended up staying up it still feels like those feelings of warrior comes back in that area. Of course I think one of the issues was that I've not getting off to a great start and then going on a little bit of an unbeaten run and feeling like we were sort of tain in a corner and we were getting things in the right place to just be a solid team that was functional, we weren't going to rip anything up. We were just going to be a functional team and I think to see that a road in the final weeks and to lose Man United and Leicester and the two games of Bournemouth and obviously there was a door in there full. It just brought it all back that maybe we haven't seen in the corner and all the problems are still there. Ultimately the number one problem is we can't score goals and it's the real worry and it's the real issue and you can throw all the numbers you want and you can say Everton are only this many points away from being in the top half of the table or whatever else. Ultimately if you can't score goals in any sport how are you going to pick up points? That's the problem Everton have got and Everton have got to solve that problem not in the summer, not in this dillidallion and saying well get that done well let this play going so that out. This has to be addressed now. It can't be overstated how hugely important this has become with everything going on at the football club, with the stadium, with the money that now surrounds football. It's ridiculous how many different people's careers are dependent on the next few months and getting it right. So obviously the summer, the charl is not to go for whatever reason. I've gone over all glam but the mistake was made when five games came and it went without putting any goals as we put all of our eggs in one basket with Don with me and it's come back massively better hasn't it really. When you look back to the summer, when you look back to transfer deadline and what we brought in and what we thought or where we thought we were improving and of course we were all a little bit more excited than we should have been about what we brought in which sometimes you are. You just want to hope for the best aren't you? I think in retrospect I just don't think it was good enough. The plan to me, the way we want to play is very evident now. It's defending deep, allowing teams almost to come onto us and then getting the blocks and getting Jordan Pickford. We've sacrificed quite a few things but that's because of the plays we brought in and they've been brought in for a reason and I think defensively the numbers it is that eye test, it is weird where you look at it and go we're doing all right and you look at the numbers and you're just like we're not doing all right. We're actually bumbling along and I think what happened in the last few weeks is that it all comes up with us. It really did. You go back to the self-hanting game and you watch that and it's one where you go and we've won two-one but for half an hour we got battered and in isolation that's fine but when you start pulling away from the one game and going this is happening more and more and you can't get away from those numbers you can't get away from the trends. They always catch up with you. Now we're getting more evidence of this. The trends catch up with you. We often speak to Andy and he'll just say that's great but look at the numbers that will catch up with you and you dismiss it and they do and I think I just can't I honestly can't look past the two attacking sands we made and without being, because I've said this a million times and without being disrespectful to those two players as human beings we bought a kid who couldn't score goals for the team who was relegated and I can't get away from it. I just can't and people might not want to wear it or people might want to say the kids got time to grow. As a football club we thought it was a good idea to bring a kid in who was relegated and didn't score goals for a team that couldn't score goals and that's a major massive valamble and the other person we brought in in Mopai is a player that Brighton couldn't wait to get rid of because he couldn't score goals and we brought him in to score goals he is nothing like the fella he has to replace on a daily basis on a weekly basis sorry and those two things are listen I'm not sitting here saying we should sack Kevin Fellwell or Frank Llanport or anyone but those two signings were massive, massive, there was a rush of blood day somewhere somebody made the decision that it's dead easy to say in hindsight I will say that because in the midst of the summer when there was a panic I think when the Charleston went and where was the money going to come from there was a panic and maybe people were offered and they were offered the right prices or the right price up front and by the way that's not it that should never be users excuse I've heard that we've paid nothing for McNeill up front no we will have to pay it you buy a telly and you pay it in instalments you're still going to have to pay the full price for that telly and I just think they got that massively wrong and that's nothing personal that's nothing about those two footballers to me they're just this is a symptom of where we are and it's been happening for way before Frank Llanport and way before Kevin Fellwell, Evan have got this horrendous trend of buying footballers who can't score goals when the number one thing is to score goals and what we've done in the last couple of years is cut the goals out of the team sometimes it was forced on us sometimes people wanted to move sometimes it was bad decisions, sometimes it was other things but we continually buy plays you can't score goals and until that trend changes we're going to find ourselves where we are because teams that can't score goals finish near the bottom it's not rocket science there's some, there is definitely we sat here and we all wanted another striker on deadline day a strong and powerful striker he could have replaced Don in a pattern, I think with Neil Maupai Evan just don't play probably the way that he needs really and that's just the way it is, him in a one it's very difficult in the Premier League it's size, he's not lightening so he can't even get them over the top, I think with Neil I've said it before as a squad player fine was it really what we needed, well goal wise no not especially when your other two wingers aren't prolific goalscores either and you centre forwards isn't you so whatever now I have to do is come up with some solutions somehow in this next month of how we're going to get goals and we have to come up with it we've got Tom Cannon, we've just let Salomon Rondon go fine no issue with that the man that decided in September he wasn't good enough for what we needed and he's not really being part of any squad recently anyway so we've gone, fair play to him as well for going and wanting to go and play for us and everything you can look at that and go well maybe they've got someone lined up and they've been happy to let him go out, let's hope that that's what it is it's done but that's what we have to do, we've also got Tom Cannon in the squad at the moment but on the ladder score in every game he's playing so you've got to give him a bit of credit for that that's all he can do but we're going to put too much pressure on him so we have to be ready once this window opens to jump and that's the big thing cos you've just said over the last two or three years we've just gone goals, goals out the door, out the door, out the door and you end up in one place like you said what do we do with Tom Cannon because ultimately this is a kid who again if you go and look at the numbers and go and look at who he is and what he's doing he's knowing the level of the Premier League but he's banking goals in the under 21s now he's got a massive, that is a big goal but for me I would plan both ways I would get him in the, cos he's clearly I don't know if he's going to be available for boxing then I just don't know if he's going to be available so that leaves Mo Pai and obviously Tom Cannon was involved in the last two games at Bournemouth so obviously he's in and around so do we plan both ways and say right Wolves game you're involved, Man City game you're involved Brighting it involved, Man City United you're involved and then maybe we start I mean by the way this is not, you don't do this and go we'll wait to see who we bring in for me I think you have on him involved and you do try and get him on the pitch if you can and you just see where they're again I go back on what I said before almost on the data there are moments where football is young football is just do something where it could last for a month, it could last for two months, it could be just one of those things where someone just explodes on the scene and as quickly as they arrive they leave and they're never out of again it's something that's happened all the way through football but if you can take advantage of that moment if you can take advantage of that youthful exuberance, that lack of knowledge on the player on the behalf of other clubs I think that's something we're taking advantage of that haven't happened maybe in years gone by and I think in the last few years sorry which is something I think maybe 20, 30 maybe years, well certainly 20 through the beginning of 2000 I think we did take advantage of this with the likes of Michael Bore with the likes of Richard Dunn, with the likes of Danny Cardamarty for any jeffers You're from Moesgifth next year I'll go for about six weeks and he was involved he had a little go and it might be something that they just they bane out quickly but if you can get something out of them that isn't already in the team I think this is something that's gone mission out of the game with all the data and with the way we use it with the way football is done now with the high stakes it's often times players just don't get an opportunity to go out there we said it last season you know around the time of when we got beat by Brentford the way and we had the likes of Simms on the bench and and it was the case of just you know what there's five minutes left and you've got a sub what harm will it do you go on the old barn and I think for me that's where I'd be listen I'm not one of these people who says you know when else Simms gets sent on what are you doing that for or what are you doing that for I think they know the level of these players a lot better than the average person but I do think just over Christmas before that window opens and before we settle on maybe send them on loan you know people like Sheffield Wednesday have been linked to them I think you do try and get a little bit out of them because you just said there Rondon's gone there's an opportunity for a third church striker and so these second church striker if Dominic Averloon is involved in boxing I mean we all we all pray is but if he's not then there's an opportunity to give a young man a chance just to just to see if he can grab hold or something. Later don't know if it's Christchennie or some of it. They don't know if it's Sam Goodall. Now those three players might make it at the top end of the pitch in the Premier League and Tom Cannon mightn't but we won't now and just right now we haven't got any other options have we we've got Neil Maupai and we've got Dominic Averloon Maupai fit for certainly for the Walls game. Tom Cannon's in the best form of the three of them for the simple reason that the lads playing and scoring goals you know he's just played last week against men in the Pappard Jones or whatever it was scored again and he's confident there. I mean his goal last week he took it from the edge of the box and just bent it over the goalie it's like he could have ran on to it with the goalkeeper you know we said that Tom Davis missed an absolute shith of a bone within the cup or at one whatever it was at 0-0 or 1-0 you know if Tom Cannon had that chance on to his score so he may well be good enough he may not be good enough. We don't know but sometimes there's an opportunity to throw a lad on. Have a man been involved and like you said it might last four six weeks the ball might drop to him two or three times in a box in that time and he just put it in the net and it's like here we go I think everyone want to get him on loan there's clubs sniffing around he needs to go on loan and carry on his development but while we haven't got a replacement right now and we haven't got an option he's a big lad you know he looks around six foot so therefore you know physically he's probably stronger than what Malpah is just Malpah is physique not saying he's better than Neil Malpah Neil Malpah has done it in the Premier League and done it in the championship but it just gives him an opportunity. Do we want to be relying on a 19 year old unproven centre forward now? Of course we don't but right now needs must needs must and I think probably the biggest excuse me the biggest compliment you can give to him is ever not being prepared to say to Rondon yeah you can go now rather than just hang on for two weeks in that transfer window while we try and get someone in even if I've gone now you can go cos we've got some cannon here and hopefully the lad will grab the opportunity you know if Dom's there or there about fitness wise I'd be playing him against wolves for an hour trying to get 65 minutes out of him and then it'd be probably cannon and Malpah maybe that come on because Bob wouldn't be taking Dom to Man City if that's a game where if you're trying to manage him City away is probably a game you'd expect ever isn't that no it's terrible it's a terrible way to look at it but what I'm saying is if you're talking about managing just until a window's open we should be in a situation we don't have to manage our players where you shouldn't have to be terrified about that lad playing a few games but right now we're all going you're talking about being worried about the footballer doing his job and now we're not be looking at it in a window going we've got two games in a week three games in a week two of them are at home and the home to wolves and the home to Brighton there's more chance of us getting points out of those two than this one here which is Man City away and yet certainly give the lad a go until he until we can get someone in and then you can worry about his career and go right let's get you on loan playing every weekend score and goals for the championship club or whatever or a league mon club and that will know them from his developments as he really got it but he could come in and score a couple of valuable goals for everything in the next in the next two or three weeks but that's where we are if you just look where the league for the record so far there we go 15 games and three which is shocking five draws and seven defeats with a minus six goal difference and the thing about that the minus six goal difference is they've let 17 goals in the 15 games which isn't terrible it's not great it's not terrible but because we can't score goals that's why the way we are you know three of those 11 goals we score we're in one game and that tells you everything that you need to know really you know I think the last three league games we haven't scored a goal in you know and that and that is where we're up to and evidence focus can't be anywhere else other than in the final the final third. Do you think go as well I mean it's goals we know we need goals and we know we have to buy goals you think as well I mean I think Frank Lampard has got to get this midfield sorted as well because it's a strange one it's this you know Wobie's in the best form he's ever been in there everton um I don't think Garnet again is getting played right don't know if he's ever been played right at Everton just we watch him in the world cup he's just a completely different player he's more dynamic he's more on the front foot he's more pressing forward he's more around the box we once again like we did the first time we had him play him as a six when he's not a six but if you play him the way we did against Palastau where Awnana is next to him this is what it's going to say then we have to there is I understand what Frank Lampard has been trying to do with Awnana almost projecting him as a number eight number ten because of the height because of what he gives you but then we have to sort of come away from that and say if we want to move the team forward and not just put you know band aids over issues that we have to put him as the six let him become a six properly with uh Garnet next to him but also Garnet then have a more license to press knowing that he's got Awnana behind him Awnana will still make mistakes but I'd rather he made mistakes in a position which is going to be his long term position than making him making mistakes in a in a position where you look at him and go you don't really know how to play in that position because I watch Awnana seeing him in the ballmeth game doesn't know how to play in that position does not strike me as a fellow who knows how to play in that position he's your number six it's quite comfortable in that position does he have a tendency to uh over indulge on the ball and and then sometimes yes but I think what we're seeing is we will see the edges um be you know be taken off smoothed off but what I don't want to see is new edges put into his game by playing in these different positions on it but I just think when you look at it from an actual blueprint for the team now the palace one was the club exactly yeah and it was a case of he was able to drop deep and take the ball and then we seen his passing range where I think when we saw him against Leicester and against Bournemouth he was higher up the pitch he was out the game yeah he was out the game and and we were getting people running on to us and then Garn has got two men and he decided or he's getting caught on the ball and I think it also knocked a woby off his stride a bit of woby was better just roaming against palace and really so I hope the man and he goes back and goes look this worked really well against Christopher Palace when we had you two just sat there just sit there let a woby have it let the full backs because obviously Patterson is back now as well which is a big thing for us Patterson ride up and down and let's do it that way and see where we go from. Listen football managers will always have reason for something they don't just do something often you know they will have they would have moved on on it into a different position to to stop the threat or something else but like you just said there certainly home that's the best performance we have and palace was easy our best performance do that again do that every week and see what the results are and then get a then at least get a body of evidence to say this does work or this doesn't work I think changing it every week and it does come down to the personnel and and who you've got available and it does it does help if you have got you know you have got your your number one right back playing and you've got you know your number one your number your wide men and they're in form and you've got your number one centre forward all it all it's all it's all pieces of a puzzle that you just don't want to keep removing one at a time and I understand that it's difficult it's not a great squad it's not a very big squad it's been decimated at times you know hopefully now we've got players coming back that can add something I mean oddly we could have five centre backs you know when we playing man city couldn't we although probably I mean I've got injured by them but you know hopefully we'll have you know a full squad for that however long that lasts but I said you can't look past the fact that January not only do we need players but I think the fans like last year with the full backs it's a case of if you want to take the fans with you again like we did at the end of the season you're gonna have to if you want to stop it from turning to anger you know I personally think everyone fans have been very very very patient and accommodating with what happened from the back end of last season I know people might disagree on that but I think they massively have I think for the most part Frank Lampard still has you know the good with the good will and the good grace of a fan base who are willing to give them an opportunity but but the problem with everything is it's not nothing ever comes in isolation it's a package people will easily look at Kevin Felwell or look at the board and go how can you sit there as a manager and allow this to happen why aren't you they never will but why aren't you coming out and saying that these people aren't helping you or whatever and Frank Lampard has sort of hinted at that in the in the in the in the summit as we come into the season he basically said I'm not happy that I haven't got a sense of forward yet he didn't point the finger at anyone but he did say it and what tends to happen is that is when as football fans we demand honesty you're never gonna get it does well does work like that so we will turn them on the manager and say why aren't you having a go with him he's the fella stopping you from buying people and stopping this team because the culture is that you'll get the sack so why aren't you turning on that fella and I know that's not a realistic thing that ever happens in football yeah both fans will turn man and go this fella just looking after himself isn't he and that's that's the nature of football the nature of football fans in his time age and maybe always but so January huge it's absolutely huge now huge for a lot of people at the football yeah it is yeah well you've got to do it you've got to at the end of the day you've got to go and make these signs and we should have you know my belief is you should have one bloody to go really should be should be revealed on christmas eve really see you say that as a flip remark but the point being is that the momentum the momentum the momentum the walking into the game on boxing day knowing that you've already got a sign coming in for the new year changes changes out things don't get me wrong it isn't as easy to do but if there's a possibility then I think that will be a great way to really to flick the thing and go look where you are moving like you just people want to stay with it and you should want to stay with the project even though there is people who are rightly rightly sit there and go well hang on one three games in 15 why aren't you you're angry we are a bit angry but we're also aware of where we are but I think the club could get the momentum going I'm always angry the club could get the momentum going by going look this is happening and that's happening and we've seen it before we've done it a year ago with Michel Enco we knew that deal was already done well let's hope that you can come up with something equally I mean for even if they can't do that it has to be ready to go ASAP because we can't be dragging through in three weeks you mentioned there's the top of the show we we you know waited for technically it was four games the fifth games leads you know yeah but we waited and we lost out and the manager was clearly unhappy with that he didn't say it but you know he mentioned he hinted he didn't point fingers but he you know he did he did you know give a little nod to the fact that he wasn't happy that four games into the season he didn't have a centre forward and then five games into the season or didn't have a backup have a backup at that time really so obviously clearly the door had he made his mind about wrong done so that wasn't it that wasn't it you know we knew that from the first couple of games when he's playing Anthony Gordon and Dwight McNeill a centre forward we knew that that was the signal so I I just think you we can't piss about now we can't mess about there's just too much at stake and I know there's a lot of people out there it goes only 15 games games gone and it'll be seeing that last season this team can't still be it all right season but but the after it's got to improve quickly and without goals it won't it won't just won't so well you can you can scrape by the next few games but you can't scrape by 20 games you can't you just can't so we've got to really we have got to be ready to go so fingers crossed coming into it let us know what you think in the comments section below is are you still are you terrified or are you still hoping and keeping you keeping your faith that Everton will get two or three people in in January and it'll be difficult because it's a difficult market to work in but we ain't got any goals in this side in this squad so it needs to be done very quickly and can't on cannon be a short term fix for Everton as in the next few weeks let us know what you think in the comments section below give the video thumbs up subscribe if you haven't already and if you want to become a toffee tv premier the link is in the description the qr code is on the screen see you later