 Hello, welcome to Toffy TV. It is the Everton News Daily brought to you in association with the SOFA score, which is free to download, so go and do it now. Marcel Brand has revealed that he wanted Miquel Artheta to become the Everton manager when the Blues departed, or rather part of company with Marcos Silva back in 2019. Brand has revealed that he spent an evening at Artheta's home discussing him the opportunity of becoming the Everton manager. He was very, very impressed with the Spaniard and had made his mind up that he was the one he wanted, and I remember at the time there was a lot of talk about it, obviously Artheta was at Manchester City at the time as Pep Guardiola's number two, and Artheta was linked with Everton, but the club decided to go in a different direction. And I point Carlo Ancelotti, which is fine, that's the way it was, but I think that was done without Brand's consent, but Brand's have made it clear who he wanted to appoint as Everton manager. And a lot of the reports going round at the time was that Ancelotti was going to Arsenal, and Artheta was going to be the Everton manager in the irony of it is that it was the other way round. Both were sat in the main stand at Godderson Park for the first game after being named, if you like, which was a nil-nil draw between Everton and Arsenal at Godderson where Duncan Ferguson was in charge of Everton, and Freddie Youngberg was in charge of Arsenal. It was a terrible game, it ended nil-nil, it was just before Christmas. And then both managers were revealed at the respect of clubs, but you just wonder how it would have played out if we would have gone with Artheta, with Everton being in exactly the same place they are in now. I don't think so, I think he would have identified the way you're playing and would have gone into that. He's obviously done a fabulous job at Arsenal, he's had a lot of money to work with, much more stable club than what Everton Football Club has been. So yeah, interesting from brands, just giving a little bit more info on his time as director of football at Everton. Vitaly Michalenco played for the Ukraine last night as they beat Bosnia and Herzegovina 2-1 in their European Championship 2024 semi-final playoff. They now face Iceland on Tuesday night, looking to secure a place in this summer's European Championship finals in Germany, so a good luck to Vitaly for that one. Everton's young striker Yusof Chimiti made his under 21 debut for Portugal last night and got on the scoresheet as they beat Faroe Islands by four goals to nil. So the progress has ramped up, he was part of Portugal's under 20 development squad, he's played a few games for them and scored a few goals. During Everton last summer, of course, for £12m from Sport and Lisbon, he's featured 13 times this season, but his minutes are very, very small. Vitaly get on with three or four minutes left and I just wonder whether Sion Dite has got any plans to up that game time in the final 10 games of this season because Everton are struggling for goals, of course, this season and who knows, maybe Chimiti can come up with a couple of big ones between now and the end of the season. Finally, Everton are apparently one of the club's interests at the ensigning West Ham right back, Ben Johnson. The 24-year-old is set to leave the London Stadium this summer when his contract expires. He hasn't been happy with the game time that he's been given a West Ham and he's not happy with the new contract offer and Everton are one of three clubs monitoring the situation with Crystal Palace and Tottenham Hotspot. However, reports from London are the Crystal Palace are in advance negotiations with Johnson and they are the favourites to clinch his signature, so we'll see, we will see. That is it for the news daily, make sure you give the video a thumbs up, subscribe if you haven't and also download that sofa scorer. Have a great weekend, see you later.