 Welcome to Toffee TV. Everton have appointed Kevin Thelwell as their new director of football. Thelwell, who is 38, will report directly to the club's board of directors acting as a strategic lead for recruitment and all the club's football departments including first team, academy, coaching, sports science, medical and analysis. Currently head of sport at New York Red Bulls where he joined in 2020. He was the supporting director at Wolves between 2016 and 2020. He was the head of recruitment before that. Yeah, he's been working with New York Red Bulls, guided them to the playoffs in 2020 and he has said I'm greatly looking forward to working with Frank and the players to help the owner and board achieve their long term football objectives. So there you go. We have got a new director of football appointed. Obviously Marcel Brands left the club in December. Thelwell also says I'm so pleased to be joining Everton and have the opportunity to play a part in the club's ambitious journey as well. He said the owner and the chairman and the CEO all presented compelling reasons for me to join the great club and I'm really excited to have the opportunity to work with them all to move Everton forward. I can't wait to get started. There you go. So Everton have a new director of football and we'll have more on this as it comes in. Frank Lampard has faced the press today ahead of tomorrow's game against Manchester City at Gouldersen Park. On the injury front, obviously he confirmed Adelaide Decore and Damari Grey would have been training this week and could be involved. He said that basically they've got to be very careful with both players because they've been out. Obviously Decore has been out for four games and Damari Grey has been out for the last couple of games. So he said they've got to be careful with both of the players but both of them I imagine are in contention after training this week. So it's going to be interesting to see what the manager does and whether he changes the system to bring Decore in and have Alan and Van de Beek or whether he just leaves them on the bench and gets on with things. He's asked about Ben Godfrey as well. He said Ben Godfrey won't be back. It's still a couple of weeks away but they knew that. They knew it was going to be five weeks. So he's on course to be back in a couple of weeks time, possibly for that game against Spares. So we'll have to wait and see on that one. Obviously Lampard was asked a lot of questions about how to beat Manchester City and how, you know, on face and prep guard the older. He said I've had both experiences against the team playing not so well but winning the game and playing well but not winning but it's a new fresh approach from my point of view. He was also asked about, you know, obviously keeping everything in the Premier League which he said I came here knowing it wouldn't be playing saying as such but we won't be derailed. The players have been good and confident and positive. Yeah, a lot of talk of them, you know, in training and being very upbeat and getting that mentality right. He was asked about, you know, what's the difference of playing home and away and you know, he just basically said that's up to him to get that right and get that sorted. So obviously this is a home game for us tomorrow but one of the most difficult home games tomorrow which if results don't go our way we could see Evan drop into the bottom three and hopefully that doesn't happen and hopefully we get a positive result out of it. He was also asked about Vitaly Mechelenko and obviously the situation in Ukraine. He said he's okay, I've spoken to him, the club have spoken to him. He has every bit of support from our end and when he needs it he knows that support mechanism is there. It's ultra important that he feels that from us and it'd be interesting to see whether he's involved where he starts the game. I think Yamalenko at West Ham is not involved with the game because of the situation in Ukraine at the moment. So it'll be interesting to see what happens with that and just a few points off that as well. Everton have said that a USM that has been put on a sanctions list in the US is not the same USM, that sponsor Finch Farm and other parts of Everton Football Club. So they've said it's not USM. The one on the list in America is USM Limited and I believe it's USM Holding that I don't involve with Evan. Fair enough. They've also said they're going to take a decision on whether the siren is used tomorrow because obviously we've seen a lot of, we've heard the air raid siren being used in Ukraine. Both players tomorrow will have a Ukrainian player involved and it does seem just a little bit. I'd leave it for the game. I'd just leave it for the game. It just seems a little bit maybe not appropriate for this game. The other thing obviously the fans tomorrow will unveil a huge banner with Tali Mikhailenko on showing their support for what is happening in Ukraine and their support for the play as well, which is fantastic. Various different fan groups have come together to put that together for tomorrow. So that is fantastic and obviously it's a huge game. Both teams are going to have Ukrainian players involved. The eyes of the whale will be on the game because it's such a big game. Manchester City at the top, Everton at the bottom both need the punts. So yeah, it's a good chance for Everton and Evertonians to show their support for what is happening in Ukraine. So there you go. There you go. Not too many more takes from Frank Lampard. But yeah, it's all eyes on going to some parks tomorrow. A half, five quick kickoff. Make sure you check out our match preview and the start of the 11 show. We'll be back obviously after the game with all our thoughts and all our breakdowns. Hopefully not having a breakdown but you never know. So make sure you catch us then. Don't forget to give this video a like. Subscribe if you haven't already. We've got more great videos coming up on Patreon. See you later.