 Welcome to Toffy TV, we are joined by Callum Snell over here. Yes, little Snell. You know, big Snell, little Snell, that is. Those are people who might get that. Tony Snell, world famous DJ. World famous blue DJ. And this is Callum who will be a world famous blue journalist. This is the place to start. This is the place to start. We can give everyone the leg up. There you go, yeah. When he leaves, it's for Man City. That's it. Do like a reveal video, Man City. This is an international week, so the stuff is, there's not much to do. So there's a battle and we're straight with it. Oh no, you know what, this video has come out of us actually having a conversation without the camera, switched on. So this is what we're doing. So basically we were talking about the problems kind of of last season with the signings and with the fractions in the dressing room and stuff like that. And we were just talking about how this season seems to be a lot smoother I would say in terms of players coming in and having relationships or being able to speak the same language and stuff like that and seeing players who we've brought in getting called up to their national side. So what do you kind of, do you think it's, do you think it's been done purposely or do you think that having those relationships like say Zuma and Dean and Gomez and you know coming from obviously Barca so there was a relationship with Luca Dean there but also being able to speak the same language as me and people like that. No, I mean I don't think it's been done by design. I doubt you'd ever, I mean there has been instances in the past where players have been bought and maybe to make it a smoother transition you may have bought a friend of theirs with them just to help it, help you know have a friend you know yeah you got a friend and I'll, I mean that was in my head yeah I wasn't gonna sing it. Well that's fine I'll do. I mean we've been, we've touched lucky this season as we were talking about then you know we brought Luca Dean in and Zuma and we've both got back into the French squad which you know for them, especially for Zuma it could be a massive plus point if we come to trying to sign them on a permanent deal that could be a real one that could get you over the line. The fact that you say well if you go back to Chelsea and you're not guaranteed games you won't be in the French squad where maybe here you will be. But now coming in with with Charleston and Yerri Mina, two Pazillions in a Colombian all being able to get on and maybe share, okay they all share the same country but maybe they all share the same kind of background. I think that's a big thing as well and you can't underestimate those things in settling into a football club and I think that's what we've seen so far is players settling quickly. I think that makes a real, a real, people forget about these things it it's good if you can speak the language but it's not always the overriding factor I mean Silver did say he's gonna get all those players speaking English and I imagine they all know bits and pieces but because I suppose that's the downside of actually just conversing with people you know is that you don't have to speak the language what he's saying he's going to but it's about settling isn't it it's about if you there's a couple of years and you can settle into life in a different not only a different country but a different time you know Wofford's got Harry Potterland but I don't know if it's got anything else I really don't I can't see you having too many similarities with Liverpool, Wofford seems a bit of a strange place yeah so yeah so so I think they're all plus points that have helped Carl you were saying about Andre Gomez and yeah yeah the glam and stuff and I think it's all about feeling comfortable in that isn't it at the end of the day like you know you don't want to be you know other people saying money talks people go to some places just for the money in that but I think you know the overriding factor has to be are you happy where you are in that and I think you know from what you've seen players like Andre Gomez and that you see I know he hasn't kicked the ball yet but you know from what we've seen he seems to be having a good time on his Instagram and all that which is which is what you want you know place to be happy in that and I think a lot of a lot of the factors why last season was last season was because there wasn't much of that no like there wasn't much like togetherness with the squad and all that I'm like I think the hot bike because I think there's two ways you can look at it with the you know people being together you've got the Schneider than the Morales thing do you know when they were a bit clicky all that there's that way you can look at it that I can cause problems but on the flip side I'm gonna have to look at like you know and I'll ever been posting all these pictures of the more laughing and smiling and training all that and it's good it's good to see it's good to see it's what you want the other day you want your plays to be happy you want there to be a togetherness you want there to be a you know a team spirit which obviously wasn't there last season which I think is one thing that Liverpool do very well I think there is a sort of like they're all you know they're all sort of going in the same direction I think you know if what we've seen so far you know keeps going like with all these players getting along and you know like you mentioned Zuma and Lufi Dean and all that you know I think I think that it can only be good things you know if it comes out on the pitch you know the people getting along people playing the chemistry is there and I think I think you know if it should it keep going the right way then it can only it can only be positive for ever I think I think you're very quickly that you can see that they've settled by the performances on the pitch I mean look at these coming in and I think you said it the other day or someone said it's me the other day looks like he's been there for ages because he just looks comfortable in his surroundings and this is a lot that is coming from Barcelona into the English Premier League which can be really tough. Zuma we know has got a lot of English experience of course he's at Chelsea's played at Stoke but seeing those two together that's linked up really well and then do you do? I think what helps as well is if you sign a play and you come into a good environment I think that helps if you sign a play and they come into a bad environment it's like yeah you it's like you know you walk into a bad situation you're like oh where do I go where do I put myself it's interesting you mentioned the Morales and the you know Snadron yeah see the thing about that is again it's how it's portrayed isn't it I mean I seen a picture the other day it was I think it was someone might have been someone's birthday it might have been the ass his birthday on that show no it wasn't the ass it was someone else's birthday thing and they were all together and there was a few of them and it was it did it's funny because last season you looked at it went on looks a bit clicky that the story that broke yeah yeah Davis and all the big and then you see the party and it was still you know Davis was there it still implies it wasn't right but then you but then I seen a picture the other day and and then yeah he was there and a couple of others and you thinking well I'm gone that's not a click that's half the squad yeah that's half the squad enjoying themselves means in a place of age you go out with everyone you know or go out not to town and every vision why would you when you like when people are that when you've got players as young as 17 and 18 or plays as old as 30s 5 30s yeah yeah you know you know Jack Elkron gonna go and all this Givenchy gear are they rockin like that's so great it is made to Tom Davis so that shows that but you will get different sets but I think what's important is that is that it's a nice place to work so we so we've watched so a good indication again is things like the videos so you watch the behind the scenes videos and you see them when that the photo shoots or when they turn off a training and a Michael Silver goes round every single one high five now this is a managed season every single day in training yeah and yet you're right high five high five you know the brands thing you mentioned I think that's brilliant brands meeting them at you know outside the changing room and after the game weekend we were talking then about there's a documentary we've been and I want to mention two documentaries here actually there's the documentary we've been watching the six teams which is about Spanish football six different clubs six different people at those clubs different things but there's one who's a director of football and he walks in after every game it doesn't matter whether they've won or they've lost he's always positive he walks in with it walks in and some people might think why is he there for a start yeah but he is because he's a major part of the club but he brought them all together first of all like like like as well off and he's always stays and he's going don't forget about you know if they've lost forget about it forget about it did you did well they forget about it's dead positive and I suppose it's the same with brands he's there being you know just being positive the manager might give you not stick but he might be a little bit harsh yeah and after the game or later on the game and it's all those it's all that positivity of walsh life there was not even no way I was like who's in charge you make the decisions I it's at least there seems to be some sort of some sort of like image like as to where who but it's it's both fostered in that positivity and I think we've seen with the man city documentary how I imagine loads of people probably thought big club money you know there'll be a coldness to me yeah if you watch that documentary they're all in it together yeah after the game someone's played well they're all singing his song when he was put the problems like when they played like we're gonna win when they play car and they get kicked off the park and they get not getting decisions and they're all fighting for each other yeah and that's but that shows you that money's fine but if you want to win something you've all got to be in it together you're all you've got to be looking after the fella next year because at the end of the day you don't like the fella next thing I think we've seen this last season yeah we don't like the fella next year and that know what that might actually have anything to do with actually liking that fella if you the fella sit next to you and you're like I do as twice as much work as you do and you're on twice as much money as me those things can just cause oh yeah riffs because if you're if you're playing and you're like every game you're like this is shit I'm pulling my I'm pulling everything off for this team you're doing nothing I want to leave and then suddenly you're the bad guy because you want to leave the club you know I mean yeah I think you're right there's a lot of that last season probably I mean we've seen that from the performances we've seen that we've seen it all I think I had shot nearly on about when like with the dressing room when he was just he couldn't believe how how divided it was when he coming because obviously maybe United it was closer when he was struggling trying to pull people together you know what I mean and I suppose if it's if that's not coming from the top where is I think what Silver's done it's very quickly said how important it is that they're all in it together how important I should imagine day one he was like listen you work hard every single day this what he said in a press come in a thing an interview with Everton TV you know we're gonna work hard every day I promise you as fans they'll give everything he probably said if you're not with me then you go it's as simple as that you don't want to do things for this club you better go and I've got no issue with the book go because we get and we've seen many she got out of the loads when I was it's 24 players oh yeah went out the door at all levels I'll start to if you know it's just went bump and off the went so he's got people in who want to be there later but I haven't got Morgan Snydlem being a case in point everyone wanted them out the door he's come back you know don't well Michael Keane last year people were on she very unsure he's come back and put some good performance is in so everyone looks to be and I think that's just been that's being kind of it's the right way for it but it's been kind of justified by the way the new players have done well the Charleston has come in and loves it you can tell he loves it in a shape of after every he's looking for fans yes they look at Dean loves it zoom it is like you can see there's a picture on Saturday women pickford at the final whistle really like you know made up with each other and when we scored everyone was involved and pick that's giving their all does that real together as a fan that's when you're looking at that that gives you that gives you confidence what the manager's doing and the connections there you start getting connected with the players when you see three players score and it's like and you walk and others are just walking back like not there yeah how many times do you see that last year oh yeah right and other players are like looking at each other though yeah when we see players see it when you see players getting sent off for no reason for no reason just to get off the and I'll snaddle and did that but but you know it's it's you know actually Williams not play the competitive games forever and since what he did it barely because because everyone could see what I like to see I think I like to be straight away that I mean you know people can say what they want about him but I think he established that straight away that he was problems in that testimony we shed didn't he never seen it but I tell you another one I think is a is a is a good that one it's not actually silvered who's frosted this book when we bought him wall-cutting 10 something that actually seems to be when you see them on the pitch or or or in those videos yeah he's quite close yeah he's quite pallid on the night at the same time and almost maybe like you don't know the club I don't know the club let's try to get to get to get to be like Jack will I see in Gent they were like on a different different way. Why are we here? There was a bit of a different reason to look at Son of Moundry how it got there. But I think even with me seeing a picture the other week on someone's Instagram they were all having a meal and Luchman was with them. It was all like Bernard. No, it was. No, what I remember saying that to you, yeah, it was like I remember saying to you that looks like Luchman's finally found mate. Got some mate. She was out in Manchester when I think it was. But that's the thing. It doesn't matter. Well, you know, I don't know. But it's sometimes it's not about it. Listen, you will always have I don't like using the way clicks or cliques or whatever the It can just be a group of mates who have similar interests might have like I don't know whatever just comes down to whoever your mates are. As long as you pull together when it matters. That's all that matters. But as long as you're when you walk in that dressing room you are mates. You don't have to be socialising to the all the time outside. But as long as there's almost like that crossover as well. So you might have a mate who's in your group, you know, and they're they're in someone else's group as well. And as long as they're all crosses over and you've got that walking to a dressing room. And I think that's what's being fostered at the moment. And forget about, listen, again, I don't want to go overboard about the fact, you know, we've won three family games where we're 11th in the league. But it's just those little things that I think that he's getting right. The messages that have come up. And I think that, that transmits onto the field because as I said before, if you've got, if you're playing alongside someone and you don't feel like they're pulling that, pulling doing things that you want them to be doing and you are, that does create problems in the dressing room. That creates that. Number one, listen, we want all our best plays to stay at this club. And football will move, we know, at a time. But at the same time, though, football isn't enjoying the create and enjoying the plays around them. And I've got happy homes. They might want to move. And again, that might be, my God, there's a lack of ambition there. But football, I can finish this creek at 15 years, not when it's over and go, I had the, I had the time of my life. Jack Elker and Benz, you know, but you have footballers though. That move, looking for glory. Never get it. And never get it. And every time they move, they just miss out. But Alan Shearer? No. Alan Shearer, he was in the league, Black Bay, but then you would have, you know, United wanted to do it. He would have gone to United, won everything. And United, and he went to Newcastle. And he looks back and goes, well, yeah, I could have gone to United, but I wanted to go and play for Newcastle because it was my club. And Matt LaTissier, you know, I know it's a different time, but Matt LaTissier, a few times, clubs wanted him, and he just stayed at Southampton because he was a Southampton fan. So if you find, I was saying this off here about Gomez and we haven't seen him, and we don't know. He might be brilliant. He might not be. I don't know. But what I'm saying is he's already gone, and especially, you know, recording this on World Mental Health Day. So this is a play that spoke about his mental health apart alone and saying he struggled a bit with the pressure and with, you know, the criticism and all that. But I seen him at Valencia and he was very, very good. He was almost whatever he needs right now. And I don't know whether he'll be that, transmit that same form into the Premier League or don't. But if he's gone into a game, knowing that fans are already behind him, not only doing good. Exactly. And what happens is if he might feel around me and go, you know what, I'm only on loan, but I feel great here. The manager's great. The fans are great. We've got a really good dressing room. We've got some mates. It's great. Yeah. That's all you can do, isn't it? That's all you can do. And it's funny, you know, we haven't seen Gomez kick a ball and that will be, that will be frustrating for him. But if he's being made to feel good, you know, and this is another thing that might play the part of it. You know, if three or four of them are staying in the same hotel, I won't mention which hotel this is. If they're staying in the same hotel and they are, you know, going into, not going into town as in going out, but if they're going into Liverpool City centre and they are, you know, seeing a little bit of the sites and it's funny because I've seen an interview this morning with Shaqiri saying, I haven't been in the full city centre here. I live in Manchester and I go into the game and I come out and he was like, is it because you fear Evertonians? And he was like, no, he said that. He said that. He just haven't been into Liverpool. Yeah. But I think, and I know we laugh players like that. I'm not saying because he's a Liverpool player, but I think it's, it's, it's good for players if they want to integrate into a team, into a club. So just had a little flavour. Go into the city centre. I feel like players have done that since they've been in the teams. Another one, I feel like he's definitely had a lot of support for, he kicked the ball. And like, and he's done really well. Bains and Tom Davies are always down in the city centre. Yeah. No one gives them any, you know, no one's giving them any grief. You bump into, you might want to get a picture with them, you might want to have chat with them for two minutes and then you walk away. You know, they're not going to get any grief. I think it's good to, I think that's what's good about Gomez. I think he's come to the city and gone, you know what? I can walk around here and no one's given me, any grief. There's no extra pressure on me. No one's saying, when are you going to be back? When are you going to be back? It's, he's come in and he's like, oh, I found this nice. I mean, he's been talking. Go to a bleeding, take his restaurant in Kensington. People in Liverpool are like, what are you going to Kensington for? Yeah. You know, but he's found that little thing that he needed to help him settle in. And if all these players have found that and their team makes it out, then back and on would be a good thing and I could only be a good thing that's probably been fostered by the club, put them in the same hotel. Yo, you mentioned Luchman there. I don't know if Luchman still is in that hotel, but used to say that he's still living in that hotel. Because it's probably one of these hotels that's got like, night, and you know, it's not just a hotel, it's got maybe like apartments that, it's a nice place to live and you've got nice restaurants on tap and all that. Used to say because they're living in the same hotel as them now or that's gone. Oh, I've got mates now, where it's before them. It was all segregated. Luchman's a perfect case. Luchman's a perfect case. He was brought up on London. And I know he brought some fads. As a young lad, what was that? And he brought family with him, but his family went back down to London, I believe. And he ended up living in this hotel where he had on his own. Where he probably had to, I mean, I used to say he's not like a shy lad and he's like, he comes back from training and goes straight to the hotel and he's sitting there all day and he's like this, I don't, I don't like this. I don't even play. I go back to this hotel. What am I going to do? Liverpool's not a massive place. You know, you walk around that city centre loads of times. What are you going to do with yourself? I mean, that's in the past. That's where footballers have found themselves in. In the other position. In the other position. Oh, I go for a pint. Well, okay. And then. Well, look at the party where that's sort of kicked off with the CCTV. Well, I could tell you a waste of it. Probably when he went to Germany, they looked out for him. Well, he did look out for him. Well, they looked out for him because it's actually this is the full circle. They've looked after him because he's gone. He's in Germany. Doesn't speak the language. We're going to have to look after him. To be honest with you, I don't know if I'm totally convinced that Luchman is still happy here. I don't know. I don't think he is. That's a conversation but a different day. We're trying to keep it positive. Coming on here, spreading your negative vibes. No, but I think that actually showed he went to Germany. And he was probably happier because he had people looking out for him all the time. Yeah. And that's what I'm saying. It was an arm round sort of thing. And that's what I'm saying about the place we've brought in. We're making an effort to look after them. And I think that's what's fostering. But they might be making an effort to look after Luchman now because Brands is it. Marcel Brands, probably, he'd go, it's okay. You know, when he's looking at every aspect because you have to look at, you can't just go, they're not robots. No. We think they are as fans, of course. They don't have any problems. You've got loads of them. How many times you say, football is depressed. Come behave yourself. Well, you know, different things can happen to human beings. So you don't even consider it half the time. Listen, I'm not saying, you know, some people are depressed because they haven't got money or the struggling or of course they are. And they won't have those same things. But that doesn't mean they haven't got something else. That's going on in the mind. Different factors going to play. Everyone's got a right to feel lonely. Everyone's got their own battle, haven't they? Everyone's got a right to feel depressed and you won't know what someone else's battle is. Luchman, if he comes out to a city that he doesn't seem like the most, he doesn't look like the most outgoing lad in the world. No, no. I've not got that. He doesn't look like someone who's going to, you know, who's going to see him in town. I've seen, I've literally seen one picture of him that was from like a couple of weeks ago or maybe a couple of meals at Christmas and stuff at the end of the season. I've never heard if I'm being out in town or anything. He doesn't, and yet, so if you put him in a situation where he's suddenly living in a hotel and he's on his own, man, that must be, what are you going to do? Do you go back to playing your place? He's probably boss of FIFA. But, you know, at some point you're going to be like, I want to play two-player. So, you know, you used to say putting in those players in the same hotel suddenly goes, I've got someone to be, I've got someone to, I've got someone to take me to training. Yeah. You know what I mean? You used to say you drove. I don't know. I believe that Slav's got an ex-wife. No, but at first he might not. But I'm saying if you, but even that though, if you go, I'll drive today. You've got someone, you've got someone who's going to take that half an hour full, do you mean a trip from the hotel to the training ground? You're having a chat and you're like, well, Charlotte's quite pally there's loads of stuff with them so you give each other lifts into training all that sort of stuff. That's the thing, isn't it? The more of that will convey onto the pitch. You won't love everyone in the dressing room, of course. You won't. You'd have to be professional. Remember, the famous one was Sharon Gibbon and Andy Cole, wasn't it? He didn't like each other, but on the pitch they'd still played the best because they were winners and he wanted to win stuff and you have to have that but if most of your dressing room gets on as much as it can, you have to help any players settle in and beat the performances on the pitch and that's what we want. Moise was the key guy that was great at it. Yeah. He was the best at it because he used the number one he'd want to buy players that complemented pace and that he'd ask, he'd ask players what you think about me bringing. I mean, the story. So apparently that's what brands does. Look, they like Sir Joey Barton and they like Sir Craig Bellamy. Oh, yeah. They were very close to signing on. He's a dick, isn't he? Yeah. They really don't like him. Moise spoke to Bellamy when we were twice. And because you go and you need one bad apple to turn up and you're like, because back then it was a relatively small squad back then. Moise would do things Moise, I mean, the famous one was when, when Arsenal beat Liverpool for us to get Champions League, Moise wrung every single player and said, you will be here at seven o'clock. Yeah. And you know, like honestly, we're celebrating this tonight. And that's why we got beat 7-0 by Arsenal on the Tuesday night. Every single one of them being on the pop together, he'd made that. He'd said, you know, like, you probably got them all in one place and then like, stay with them for an hour and then probably just left them to it for the rest of the night. He made sure he's seen how big an achievement it was and he was like, we're going out tonight and you've got no say in this, we're going out and they all had to go out. And I'm sure there was other occasions where they had to do last year. You know, like, things like that, where players like, that's our only night out. I mean, that's fine. I mean, that's up to the manager, but we probably would have took them all out to go if we were in a bag, bit of a rut and saying, come on, lads, we've got to pull together. So, you just do it quite. Well, as last season, it was like for every sort of bad thing that happened, it just went further and further and further and further and further. So, players have been signed by someone. He's not even here anymore. Yeah. And Walsh, you know, and Aladais coming and everyone at him. And, you know, it is... There's so much going on with the last season. I mean, David Klassen said the first day of Aladais training and he come up to him and said, we're doing set pieces with, and drills with 23 players and you're not one of them. So, go and do what you want. And he said, shall I go to the gym and he went, if you want, yeah? There you go. Never seen him and within that first day, he was told he wasn't part of that squad almost. So, what's that going to do? Do you know what it means from a player going to go? Well, I mean, I know. And I'm not saying he would have been brilliant. Silver done something obviously similar, but it was at the beginning of the season with the four players and, you know... No, it was, but he'd all trained. He'd assessed them all with Aladais day one. That's what I'm saying. If you get a new manager, and he comes in, and he hasn't worked with you, and he goes, listen, whatever, you're not in this. You'd be like that. If you've watched me for three weeks, you don't think I'm good enough. All right, but they won. There's just so much to this, but hopefully, and hopefully, we said things seem a lot more positive. And that's not just on the pitch. It's, like I said, it's off the pitch, you know, like everything's just seeming. Like you said at the start of the video, just like, okay, we've won a few games on the bounce, you know, we're 11th and all that. But still, things are looking up into it on the pitch and off the pitch, well, I don't think it gets showed off the pitch. It's looking quite positive as well. The pitches, the videos, it's not new over there. So it's looking good. It's looking good. Hopefully. Maybe you're winning games and everything's nicer. Everything's nicer. Yeah, I might even get stadium pitches here. That might as well. Yeah, it's a lot, isn't it? Today. All right, today. Today? Well, whenever. It's today. You could, this video was going off tomorrow because yesterday's here today. So therefore, you know, who knows, like even see a picture of a grand in the next 10 years. Who knows? There you go. Big thanks to Caleb. Cheers. Thank you. Thank you very much. Cheers. Oh, nice one. If you haven't subscribed, please do so. It takes a sec. Just do it. Like now. Look. 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