 Welcome to Toffy TV, Everton. I bought a striker and that striker is Neil Mopai from Brighton. It's the news we've all been waiting for, Bas. If you've wanted a striker, you can't moan when you go back. I'm not moaning. I am not moaning. I'm sitting here and I'm quite relaxed about the situation. I'll disclose for you. Bought him in, a premier proven striker. That's what the manager wanted. And he's gone and got him. I don't think he'd be the last to try to bring in. But he's gone and signed him. He's got experience playing in the Premier League as we've said, so hard work. I don't get the toneings I'll like him because he's got that little bit of snide of arm. He likes celebrating in front of opposition fans and shushing people. And getting the face of opposition players, wise people. I've seen a couple of things of liking him to the likes of Stephen Naishmith. That kind of character. We want more snide in the side, don't we? He will bring a bit of snidishness. It's not a word, but I'll have to say it. No, it's a word now. It's still on me. He's, as you said, been around the Premier League for a few years. His goal retain is an amazing. It's straight off the bat, it's not amazing. But he is a bit of a dog. He was sort of my gullison ten the new year. I just thought his general play on that day impressed me. He was just... He has got a bit of a horribleness about him. And I think... I don't think there's anyone out there in this market with the money we've got that we can really go out and pick up. So where we are right now means we have to buy these kind of players, this kind of level, and give the team something that it hasn't got right now, which is a forward. It's a forward, isn't it? And sometimes, you know, it's hard to say being... I'm not wild, of course, I'm not wild by it. But... And it's hard to sit here and go through all kinds of positives. But as a squad player with Don and the Carbon Loon coming back, I think, you know, in the meantime, he can do a job, and even when Don comes back, he can do a job in the side, because he has got a little bit more about him. I think he's a clever player in terms of understanding, winning files, that kind of thing, winding people up, all part of the thing that makes a decent striker. It's just he needs to convey more chances. And that's the bottom line. Hopefully, he comes into the side and he helps create more chances and takes one or two for himself, gives us a focal point, gives us someone to play off, gives us some shape, chasing and harrying and pressing from the front, those kind of things. As I said, I'm not wild or not bowled over by it. I do think it... I don't look at him and go, he's an absolutely terrible player. I think he's a player that can add something. But I don't think it takes us to the next level or anything. But it's what the squad needs right now. It needs attacking options. And he's an attacker, obviously. I think he's obviously only five or eight, so focal points might not be the right thing to... But he knows how to play the role and will... He works incredibly hard up there. And he's the type of player that, when Dom is fit, he can play off the left. It reminds me, not at the same level, but he is a little bit like the Charleston in that fact of, like, he will work really hard for the team up there. And maybe that's a way to have him in the side with Dom and the Calvallum as well. So you're getting his goals, I think. If someone put up his goals in the last three seasons, they'd have, like, said, top scorer, they'd have something behind Dom and the Charleston, something like that. So if he's had an eight to ten goals, that's what we've lost a player like them. We've lost, I guess, and you've got that. And obviously, Ham has got a few, and Mitch has gone now. So you've got to put some goals back in the side. You're right, we were never going to... With the money we've got. And just the way the whole club is right now, we were never going to be able to go out and buy that 25-goal of season slaker. It wasn't happening. We didn't have the money to shake off and get it. Alexander Isaac, the way Newcastle have done it, and the other mother had the Anthony Gordon money. Weeks ago, if they'd been sold, maybe they could have gone and tried to put a deal like that together. But we're simply not there with the money. So you have to look around, what's available. Yes, they could have taken a chance. I wish they would, sometimes, taking a chance from someone like Terry Moffey or players like that who are... A bit of a gamble you have to accept that. But it's been well documented. The manager wants someone who's played in the Premier League. Because I think right now he probably wants someone who can hit the ground on them. I, like I said before, I think Everton will say it and he'll bring in more than Moffey. He's looked at the looking brothers, the one brothers, the one he wants, and I think they're very much still at the table for him. And maybe if it becomes clear that it's not going to happen, then maybe they'll go for Diaz. Diaz on the last day or whatever, for a £12 million or something. It'll take a little bit of a risk with him. But I think brothers are the one we wanted. But if you bring in Moffey and you've got them, and you do get a brother, and you've also got the Maori Grey up there, then you've got some options. Certainly more than you've got now. And they've gone and might end up staying as well. So you just don't know. Just right now, Moffey makes sense. I guess where we are. We can't sit here and say he's a prolific oldster because he's not. No, he's another squad player in a squad full of squad players, essentially. Well, you've got to, when you're building something, you've got to, I don't believe any team starts building and buys you're playing and you go, he's taking them to the next level. Because I'd look at Brentford and go, where are you taking them to the next level? You're everyone except that they're like not a bad side. Crystal Palace, who they bought where you go, he's gone to the next level. You bought players who all fit in. Crystal Palace is slightly different because they're buying younger players, but I don't think you always buy players who you'll take them to the next level. Where not at? I don't think anyone can sit and say whatever level we are at at the moment because we're in the process of trying to turn the background stuff on the right level. You know, Kevin Felwell's got people in trying to get that going, Frank Lampard's being in the job, you know, five minutes, so to speak, and they're trying to turn the squadron and they're competing with FFP or P and profit sustainability rules. So they are trying to get something to him while building the stadium. So it is, it's about trying to get the levels up, absolutely, but on Ana, he could argue as a player he could take everything on to another level given his profile. There was a lot of excitement about him just because he's played, he's been involved in a couple of games and he hasn't been amazing yet. The same, the interest drops, so it's not as good as what I thought. You've got to let people settle in as well and you do after that look around and they're going, what can we put in this squad? But I understand people looking at them well he's not going to get us 20 goals and now we know, but the strikers who get you 20 goals cost, don't cost £15 million or whatever it is. They cost upwards of £60-70 million, we haven't got that money. I understand why they've done it. It's an easy option. He's a Premier League player and he will, I think he can be, like you said before he is, he can be a player who is a nuisance that other teams don't like that fans can get behind and fresh start, bigger club. We'll see how he gets on. He's better than what we've got right now which isn't always the standard to throw at people. Would it be fair to say though he's a Brighton who don't score a lot of goals anyway and yet he might be passed. He did better at Brentford. But would it be fair to say that if he's in a side with someone like Dominic Calvert-Lewan who's going to knock some flicks knocking stuff down to him he would get more opportunities and get in on the side and stuff. To be honest it is hard to say because Brighton in the last couple of years have made a lot of chances. One of the things they were criticised for was not taking their chances. His ex is low though in terms of what they create for him. Maybe they create it as a team so Danny Welbach played three games and scored a goal here. Brighton just don't score other people's scores which is what you're doing, it's fine. I'm just saying who knows he might be more effective he might literally become the number two striker of Everton and he's better equipped than Ronddon isn't he because he's younger and he's more mobile and he's just turned 26 last week so he's at that age where you want more consistency and he's not playing for Brighton because he wants to sign a new contract with them not because they don't want them they offer them a new contract so he obviously wants to move on for whatever reasons Let's have a little look at his numbers so from last season he played 32 games scored eight goals two assists just you explain these next ones well the pressures are multi pressures from the front 18.58 pressures per game he's doing which is put him on the 80th percentile so we're going to top 20% for working off the ball counter pressures of when he's lost the ball so he's averaging 4.39 per game which is lose the ball going chase it he's on the 95th percentile so the top 5% of strikers for that and obviously the average is 2.08 shots per game which is around about the halfway stage so he's got to improve shots per game strikers should be aiming 5, 6, 7 shots at every game because you want to increase your chances of scoring don't you so and again that might be because Brighton do play a very distinctive style I'm not saying he's going to come in all of a sudden he's Romelu Rwgachir because he's not shown that in his career so far but he was decent to Brentford which is why Brighton bought him and I think he's been a good striker for Brighton 10, 8 and 8 and they're three Premier League seasons yes he's not prolific, we know that but then if Dom gets back to being fit and is as good as what he's been it's just 15 plus goals and he's getting your 10 then you're almost replacing the Charlesons goals there aren't you putting goals back into the team evidence still need another couple in my opinion we need another striker Breuer would be great even though he's a bit of a gamble because he's not exploded but he's one I think Evan could work towards keeping you see and he's around 20 and even if he did sell it and he could even have another attack in midfielder over there to try and bring something else so it's not the one that everyone's going to be going getting out to get a Maupai on the back of me shea type thing but but I would say is though just looking at those numbers there you can tell he's somebody who works hard and what we've seen in the last few games is clearly when we didn't have a striker update it reduced nothing sticking with Rondon it's clear that he gives us a shape but then offers very little at else so having a player who works hard goes into the channels pressure defenders and all that kind of thing allowing bringing other players into the game and that kind of thing that's what they'll have been looking at and what he adds to the team overall hopefully he gets goals as well and hopefully it all works out you can never tell for anyone as you just said there you bring some players in and they've got great records and they don't do nothing you bring other players in and they thrive in the environment of being at heaven you mentioned Naish Miff there and obviously you had a very very slow start and then once he's sort of got his teeth into it he's suddenly become someone that everyone loved and when we sold them we lost a big part of not only the team, the squad but what it means to be an evident player in a way just everything around them because it's your five goals that are offered when you come to heaven and they're double figures so I'm not saying that he's going to do the same obviously but they can thrive you never quite know but Frank Lampard says something really telling it's not about just bringing anyone in to improve the squad it's not just about looking at it you've got to look at everything everything will have looked at him and his numbers have probably come out and gone actually for what we want what's available he's a decent option and he can improve us so do you go? 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