 Mae'n gweithio'n gweithio. First of all, what update can you give us on contract talks for Anthony Gordon, Alex Awobi and Jordan Pickford? How close to agreement with any of them are you? Close. That's the update for you. All good. What more can you say? Can you expand on it at all? No, no, we've got hopefully a situation where we want the players to stay and they want to stay here. It's always been a feeling so we're very close. Dominic Calvert-Lewin, how likely will he to be involved against Wolves and also Andrews Townsend? How close to a return is he at the moment? Dominic, he's going to be tight Wolves. He's going to be training over the next couple of days, trying to push him a bit for match fitness. The injury feels good, which is the best news. The last thing he'll want to do is go too soon with him for match fitness. That's the question mark over Wolves with Dominic. We've got a lot of games coming up so we have to be clear. With Andrews, he had a bit of a setback so he's not going to be ready for these next batch of games. Apart from that, take it no new injury concerns within the squad? No. Just looking at the potential transfer window coming up. Just wondering, Conor Coley, could his move become permanent in that window? Decor is being linked with Fulham and Forrest. Could he move on? And also what scope is there for you to bring in players? Notably, obviously we look at it and say you would maybe like to bring in a forward option. I don't want to talk about players leaving off the back of newspaper reports. I think that's just a bit lightweight. We've got our squad. We're working towards Wolves. Conor has been brilliant since he's been here in every possible way. We would love to make that permanent at some point, but that's not happening right now, but we'll keep looking at that one. The January window, we want to help the squad. We want to have more options in forward areas. If the right players become available in those areas, then we have to try and improve. Particularly where we've had Dominic injured a big part of the season, I think there's been an area where we know we want more. But we have to be smart. Our situation is clear. Some other clubs are making moves in their own ways. We have to be also smart about how we do it, and more than that, concentrate on what we have in the building. The players that we have are much prepared to fight and play well and improve every day. That's my main concern, but yes, for sure, when the window opens, we'll be looking to improve where we can. Absolutely no, Conor can't play against his parent club. It's parent club easy for me to say. But I just wonder how Conor is, how Jordan is after the World Cup, how ready they are physically and mentally to play. How beneficial was the break for yourself for the players who didn't go to the World Cup? Jordan and Conor are great because they're low maintenance and they would have hurt to leave the tournament. I think the whole nation did because we felt we were going well and they're in the bubble and I know what it's like. There's not much of a worse feeling in that moment. Maybe the beauty of this tournament being in the winter is that they come straight back in. The Premier League is a beautiful thing as well. They come back to their clubs. They know how high we regard them in their own ways and obviously Conor can't play this game. But they've come back with really good attitude. The break for me has been a good one. I've personally enjoyed it. When I speak for myself, hopefully I speak for the players in terms of we went to Australia, we had a good trip. We won a couple of games. We saw our fan base out there. We then had a break from training, which was really good for everyone. Then we've been working hard on things that we know we can improve on generally and particularly off the way we finished in the two games against Bournemouth. Before that, I think we were making really good strides in a lot of ways, but people's minds can obviously get drawn to those games that we have to think bigger than that and just keep working. When you're preparing to face walls, what are you looking at particularly with a new manager in charge and not an awful lot of information to go on as to how they're going to set up against you? Some basics are probably attributes that wolves have anyway, good players, very good players for their team. We look at all of those parts and then the manager, how he's worked before. I've gone up against him in Chelsea and Seville before, a very, very good manager. A lot of respect for his team and the way they set up then. I know just as a manager that when you come into a different group of players doesn't mean that you always play the same system, the same way as you play somewhere else, because you always be compromises and changes. So that's probably a little bit of a challenge for us, but if that helps us maybe focus on ourselves a little bit more, then that's not the worst thing. Frank, just away from the game, obviously sad news today about George Cohen. I just wanted to get your thoughts because I'd imagine you'd come across him quite a bit in the London football scene. I actually didn't, but I'm very aware of him and I know he's a fantastic career as one of the men that won the World Cup, he's a career at Fulham. I have such high regard. I grew up on stories of a young West Ham fan, man of the greats, Bobby Moore, Jeff Hirt, Mike and Peter. I'm always drawn to that group of players and it's always more than a shame when we lose one of those players. Every player I met out of that generation, that squad, were gentlemen and very humble about their achievements and the way how fast and modern days go in. It makes it even more sad to lose players and people of that sort of size, personality-wise. I think it's going to be 45 days since your last play. It's such a strange situation. What challenges does that prove to you as a coach? Can you see it as a new start, as a fresh sheet of paper? There's been certain challenges in terms of scheduling and the workload and it's staggered slightly for different players. But I don't think it's the worst. I don't think it's a bad thing. I think freshness sometimes of mind and having a break is a good thing. We forever talk about how busy our schedule is and when something comes a break to schedule, maybe you can use it in a positive way in a sense. So I think we've done that. I think there have been challenges but I hope to see a team that runs out with a freshness about them and an energy and a fitness as a basic point. I don't think we need a fresh start necessarily. A nice break, some freshness in us but we know what all the targets are. We know the games that are ahead of us, same as what we did before the break, we want to win them. How important is the Goodison factor going to be, not just on Boxing Day but for the rest of the season? I think only United and Newcastle have conceded fewer goals at home. So how important is Goodison going to be? Well it always has been and always will be. For sure in my time here we've had some incredible results at Goodison and that's been because of the joining of player performance and fans joining in and creating this atmosphere that Goodison's had through history basically. So it's a big deal for us and it gives us strength, it gives us confidence. Boxing Day is always a tough game because of the time of year it is and the honest will be on us, myself and the players to inject the energy and engage the crowd as always and if we can do that then it's always a big strength of ours. You've been involved in Boxing Day football, festive football, pretty much your whole life I guess. Is it different? Is the atmosphere slightly different? Yeah it can be, it can be. I won't speak for all the games but it can be, we're all humans I think if you spend the day sometimes eating a lot maybe having some drinks with your family like those things. I think naturally it can bring something about it and this is everywhere across the board but it's also a great tradition and game in our calendar that not many teams around the world do or leagues around the world do so I'm not talking it down as I say. If it's a challenge for us to start the game well or to inject energy into it and intensity then that's not a problem. Thank you. Hi Frank, because of the injury to Dominic and his problems Neil Mopay has bored the brunt of being the focal point for much of Everton's front play. Has the period in Australia and what you've had since given you a period of greater adaption if you like to bring the best out of him because quite often it seems in matches he gets the same sort of service that Dominic gets and the very different players? I'm not sure that last point is exact but I think we definitely have appreciated the time to work with the different style that Neil has in the team. We can't hit longer balls into Neil as we can to Dom and be able to change up that variety of the game but we can use Neil to different strengths that he has. We've worked more on a team to be fair as a group because I think off the back of Bournemouth it was 50% down at least as a team in terms of our performance and that can happen. I think all good teams and we're trying to become a better team from where we were striver consistency. So when you look at Crystal Palace going back home and you look at Bournemouth they look very different and that's the work absolutely not just for Neil but for the whole team. And we also have to understand that when you lose a striker of Dominic's abilities and quality for a team like us it's a huge deal. You've only got to look at prolific number 9s through this league and what they do to their teams that they make or break you at different times. So we have to understand that as well and work round it to try and do as well as we can. I noticed some comments from Anthony Gordon I think it was after the first game in Australia where he was talking about that he really enjoyed the game, the performance. He felt it was a lot more like the best that he can do. Obviously the levels are different but he was making the point he didn't think he'd been as near as the mark as he should have done in the first part of the season. Lots of different reasons possibly for that but do you get the feeling that Anthony is ready to reach his top levels now? Yeah I do and he's a young player so I think with young players, particularly offensive players and wingers who break onto the scene, I think we have to give some leeway to times where they might have periods where they're not as productive or they're learning the roles or trying to improve or defenders or understanding what they want to do to them and have to change their game a bit. I think there's that and then there's the areas in the game where the player has to improve and wants to work to improve. What I've seen in Anthony in this period in Australia when we're back and it culminated with his performance against Villa behind closed doors this week with a real intensity and energy and an understanding of the role that we wanted to play in the team. I've been quite big in communicating that to him from the beginning but particularly in this break so I'm looking forward to see his performances. Because goals have been at a premium recently and the importance of goals to win matches, you've made a few tweaks with maybe Alex Iwobi on occasion playing further forward and Anana similarly. Do you think that's how there's been a possible negative to that in as much as having looked as solid in some of the games noticeably not born with but against Leicester when possession was getting given away an awful lot? Yeah, I didn't feel it so much in the Leicester game. I think Leicester scored a very good team and Tillamon scored a goal that nobody would stop in the world or would see coming. And then when we opened up in the second half they scored a counter-attack in goal but I thought in a lot of parts of our performances and our opportunities to score in that game meant it was a close game. Bournemouth wasn't. It was how we do not want to play and a lot of basics were not right in that game. And as I say, a team in our position I think it can happen. The important thing is that you address it quickly. I haven't changed position with certain players with an idea too that will help us score more goals necessarily. One of the facts about our team in the top area of the pitch is that there's not a history of scoring a lot of goals so that's where we're in development and have to get better. And sometimes you don't just click your fingers and that happens, you have to really work towards it. So everyone has to take a bit of responsibility for that one but what we have seen of ourselves in the first half of the season, if you take out those Bournemouth games, particularly the league game, is a solidity in us in our game that was a big improvement on last year and we saw lots of games and we saw improvements and at times we haven't had that threat at the top end of the pitch or that clinical nature. It's allowed games to maybe swing against us or become difficult less is a great example because we had the two best chances of the game. So we want to keep working on that. Some of that will be what we do here, that's the first part as I said before. Some of that will be what can we do to bring into the club to help us in the area of the pitch. Thank you. Thanks. Thanks Mike. Any further questions in the open section? Will, we'll go and see you next. Hi Frank, just wanted to ask overall about the financial situation I think when you said in the summer you knew it was a big thing, it was after the Palace game, it was a big thing, the financial situation of the club. So heading into January, isn't it looking a lot better and do you think it will affect recruitment in terms of maybe having to compromise on play as you want in terms of maybe structuring deals, extractor or transfer fees? Yeah maybe, that's a difficult question for me to answer financially, the numbers and economics are not really for me to sit here and go through that one. Does it affect you? Yes we have to be sensible and I think some of the things before I was here I think we look back and I think as a club we want to move in the right direction and when people spoke about the summer wind everyone was getting out of this, getting out of that. Firstly you've got the budget to do it, secondly you have to believe that that player will help your team now will help grow as an Everton player, is the right mentality, is an Everton player, all these things come into the account. So we have to be smart and try and work in a smart way. I don't think that's changed from where we were in the last window. We'll do our best, what we do have is a very joined up idea of myself and Kevin and the board of where we want to get to. So we'll do our best but what we don't want to do and I don't want to do is bring in players that are not going to help improve us, that are going to sit in the squad and not help improve us and then you can have different issues within the squad for that. So that's the position we're in and that's why I always believed that we had a good summer window but it will need hopefully a good January window and then a good summer window and a period of time to try and get us aware. I think there are lots of examples of teams that are trying to transition out of a period where they feel like they've fallen down and they want to get back to where they want to be and it very rarely happens overnight. So we have to be sensible in that fact and not try and make mistakes as we try and move up the ladder again. Just come back to Jordan Pickford. He's obviously got just over 18 months on his deal. He's just finished joint top clean sheet in the world cup. He's been around players who have been playing the Champions League, etc. He's 28 now. Do you feel that Everton can match Jordan Pickford's ambitions in terms of maybe wanting to go on to the next level playing the Champions League? I like a lot of his England team-mates are doing that. I feel we can because I don't think it's straightforward to look at any individual and understand what their ambitions are. Jordan is England's number one and has secured that position relatively which has been an amazing achievement by him because we know how difficult that is. He's played in Everton and been a huge reason why we had a great run to the end of last season and stayed in the league. Jordan everybody knows was a massive part of that. Jordan feels very happy being at this club. I don't want to speak for him but that's the impression that I get for him. So I don't think it's as simple as that. I like to think that he's very happy here. We're a huge club with a huge history and big ambition and he's a big part of that. Having been a player myself, maybe I was fortunate enough to play Champions League a lot but when I felt comfortable at a club, I came in with a smile on my face every day and I looked forward to every game that came up whether it be Premier League, Caramel Cup, wasn't that then? Champions League, whatever. If Jordan feels like that and we can match each other's ambitions in terms of getting him to stay longer, I don't see that as a problem.