 Welcome to ToffyTV, Everton played their final pre-season game at Old Trafford on Saturday and it wasn't good was it? It was not good Everton losing the game 4-0, 3-0 down after 25 minutes, so pretty much so. Not a great last game, obviously very difficult going to Old Trafford at any time, but a week before the season hasn't really, hasn't really raised expectations after the season has it. Quite the country, it wasn't very good was it? Meltdown, meltdown, every day on the Saturday. It was what it was, it was a hammer on the score, you know what though to be honest, it's a pre-season game. Everton, at times, I don't play Doraite, I don't deal with Doraite as a fan of their, but we loved giving possession away on the edge of the box with passes that he thought he could play 3 people, and United just broke on us 10 quick, and again got off to, you know, Everton actually started quite brightly. And then the first attack, the real first attack, we go and throw the ball in our own net, really, for want of a better way by Joven Pickford, and you're 1-0 down and the first two goals are ridiculous. And then we had a bad 15 minutes after that where they were all over us, but I thought, I'm trying after each one as well, all better. Yeah, I mean, obviously, just, you mentioned, there are mistakes, but to be, I was disappointed to see so many mistakes for the week of the season to go, and now Joven Pickford had just come back, and but I still expect them to do better. I mean, obviously the first goal, Dean just heads the ball back to me, it's a simple catch, and he just drops it, and obviously the dream goes round the scores, and there's another one, not long after, he does the same thing. He's only been back in training this weekend, obviously he only played the first 45 minutes, but they did look like a lot of, they did look like rustiness out there. Now, of course, that's what pre-season games are for. I appreciate that. They just looked like, to me, it just looked like, I don't know why, that we haven't played enough games, or not evidence fault, of course, but obviously the opposition, when we were in America, was supposed to step up, and it never stepped up. In fact, the second game, we were probably the worst team in the second, and we've had what, we've had like 10 days, but in between, and other teams have been doing that thing again, where they, you know, have proper, sort of seem to have proper pre-seasons while we don't. Again, nothing the manager can do about that. It was all in place before he got here. And I just think we looked, we looked, a few plays just looked off it, but the real problem for me was, we had no sense of forward, and you could see early on, all of the players who were playing up front, or up top, none of them, like, how's Rodriguez, I think, may have started as the number, as they've sent us forward effectively, and then he just dropped in, and then you could see every time the ball went up, they would never, ever, anybody committed to go on up front, and that ultimately, again, for the manager, what can he do about that? He's got, Dom, obviously, he's got a little noch, and he's not, you know, he's got a break, it's first week in training, you're not going to miss about with that. With Charleston was playing exactly the same time in the Olympics final, which he won, so fair play to him. You've got Moise Keane, who, you know, it was out of the game, you know. So, three centre forwards are not available, and suddenly you've got a load of lads who can move about a bit, but none of them are centre forwards, and I think, like you're just saying, yeah, it looked like a system where it was nice to move around, but if no one's willing to be a centre forward, then all that's just going to come back is it's going to break down, and come back at you, and they're a team that are miles ahead of us, whichever way you want to cut it, whichever side they've got, and they're quick on the break, because that's the way they play, they're a counter-attack on side, and like you've just said, first goal was a mistake, second goal was a mistake that led to a corner. I don't know why Dean was marking McGuire, which is an issue that needs to be dealt with. You see, I mentioned it in a minute, but third goal was a stupid free kick we give outside, and then the fourth goal was obviously last minute, when everything's been changed. We've just got to get rid of that roughness this week and be ready for Saturday. Yeah, Saturday's all that matters. If we'd have won at the weekend, it wouldn't have made me think, top four, there we come. We've got beat, all right, it's frustrating watching it, because you want to, you want to see you know, things in place, but everything can go out the window and you haven't got a forward. You've got no specialist pinning them back. You know, Harry McGuire and Lindelof will have had the easiest game you've ever had in my life, of Game of Footy, because there was, we didn't have anyone up there, haven't started up there. But like you say, drops in, we know that. So, Harry Graves was trying to get on the ball and was bright, but he was looking, he wants to be able to play people through. You know, we, the first half, we had a couple where we got in on the back, Luke and Dean put a good ball in, there's no striker. We had Alex a woby, which was a really good chance off a ball, and he should have struck it with his left foot and he struck it with his right. Now, so there was moments, but we know that, you know, pre-season is about that. You've got to have your formation, you've got to have your people who can pin defenders back just to help the way you're playing. And that will be an issue for Everton early on, because we haven't played in that way, you know, the managers come in and it's been a different summer for them for the simple reason that they've come in, but we haven't had any of that. We've had one striker who wasn't even here last year, back with us with Moise Keane. But the others have not been here, the Dom's have not been here. So we hadn't even been able to get a framework in place with them up top. Everything else, we tried to get into shape. The one, I'm honest, the biggest concern I had for Saturday was the midfield with Alan in the court, neither of them. Alan just looked slow. So he's got him, he's a good footballer, you can tell he's a good player and he does go on press well, but you've got to make sure someone covers him then or don't let him go on press. We were trying, I think Graeme Sharps it on the comedy and he was right with, Hamers is going coming press. So we'd go on press and he'd just play through us, but you can't, if all of you don't go, you're not good because two lads are go and they play that way. And that is about communication. The managers had a difficult week anyway, there's other stuff going on as well. So it wasn't the greatest thing ever, of course it wasn't. But it's seasons a day to grow into. I think there's three points and I think that's definitely a good point to start with. I think he's changing the model of what he wants to play and I do think like that Alan, I think that too, Alan Decorate, I've got to, we've got to be something between them where they know what's going on. Can I let me ask you this with that is, would you, would you, I know he asked the four, two, three, one, but would you rather we just went to four, three, three, if Gabaman can stay fit because Gabaman will naturally sit in the hole. Probably, yeah, I imagine because, I mean, number one, I don't know what will be anywhere near the team. And I think the way he wants to play will mean what will play. And I just think he's horrendous footballer. Do you think what we will play though? I actually do because I don't think there's, I don't think at the moment will certainly, I mean, seasons change, teams change. I think at the moment, I think he will, I will start. I think he's, I, I don't know, I, but I really hope he does. Do you know the reason why I don't think he'll even start this Saturday? Yeah. Because he played the full 90 last week. He's a big man. I think in his ideal scenario, this is what I think his team will be. If he plays four, two, three, one, it'll be Alan Decorate or Gabaman and one of them. But the three will be, if, if James Rodriguez stays, I think he will play in the 10 and I think it'll be Damari Gray and Rituala or obviously, if he's fit, I think he will be shut. Fair enough. No, not fair. But you might be right. Not fair enough. I think, I've said it before, I think he will be the worst player ever, never made ever. Pawn for Pawn, I think he's absolutely terrible. He just doesn't fit what, what we want to do. He just doesn't offer anything. He doesn't offer, he's not interested in, he doesn't offer anything for any of me. All right, that's a nice game. Now, that has to be rectified and that's something where it's about changing the style. Another thing, just another thing is, those players, by the way, all of them, I've got to start just going, I'm having a shot. Yeah, oh my God. Because that was the other thing, that was the other thing, and now that's the other thing, it's just like, have a pot. All these, Tansans got a decent shot, crack, graded it in the bar, just have a pink, just have a pot. It's a bit fair to him, he had two goals in the second half, but the others have got the Mari, Gray. Just twice he had opened up and he passed it. Just have a crack. The core, it's like, I don't want it. There's got to, someone's got to start taking responsibility, that's the other thing. The third thing, and I think this is going to be an interesting thing, and I noticed this, I'm thinking it was very noticeable off their goal is, we changed how we defend set pieces, and that's going to be slightly worrying for me. Rafa Benitez has always preferred zone market, always, and people spoke about it at length when he was at Liverpool. The way we defended set pieces last year really worked for us. We went, everyone, oh why are they so deep? But it really worked, it was like two banks, the first one lost, missed it, the second one would get it, and it worked really, what it did was it eliminated also the specialty in Pickford, and the next person in front of them, and it helped them. And we've changed it to Zonal, and I thought we will cause the coaches. Now I know what I'm saying, and I think I'm not 100% sure of it, because I don't think we've got the type of defenders that, so on this, being a lot of talk of the weekend about players leaving Hoaghey possibly, we don't have that authority in our back line who's just going to go, I'm taking control of the situation, whether that be organising or going to attack the ball. I think we do a mean a place. A mean a place of course, yeah. Because he does do that. So we need to get that sorted quickly, because it proved under silver the amount of goals we can see by changing the system, and we never got it right for like three or four months, and it only takes that one time you get it wrong, and you go behind in a game. So that's a little worry, because again that comes down to not playing a lot of games, pre-season, not having the manager in there for very long, not even being in the situation, standard as well. This is just the other thing that I thought Saturday was, you just mentioned it there, it was supposed to step up. Dayway, far and above, the best team, we've comfortably, the best team we've played of course, there was a huge drop-off. I think when you're playing against teams who are good, at least it makes you raise your level. Every player will play and cut. It's like Acherdington playing everything, like we beat them 3-0 the day they've been like, and that wasn't our first team, but the day they've been like, they're a good shot, you know, we have to step up. It's the reason why like the 23s have bounced all these non-league shots, well those non-league shots have been like, like we've got to improve our level because they're good, but we've had, we've been black playing and we beat Acherdington, sound. We went through America, we beat millionaires, we drew with them, but you know, beat them on penalties, sound, you know, heated problem and all that. We then played Pumas, who, Wayne is good, you're right, but obviously you're battling with the conditions. That's fine if we would have then had, if we could have then got like a European game, like last Monday or something, before, or Tuesday, before this game at the weekend. So you play, because I've seen like Liverpool have played like Bologna, twice in the same day, two different teams, then they played Athletic Bilbao, then they've got Osso Sune, you know, Sheldanson played Athletic Bilbao on Saturday, although they beat them 3-1. But it's that level of team, you wake up with, don't you? And, and I hear people criticising the fact that we played Manchester United, because you know, listen, we've watched those loads of times, like we're listening to bounce by Spanish teams or Portuguese teams, you know, we always lose the last pre-season. We always lose the last pre-season, that's not the point. I think they're different. I think we've gone 10 days without a game and we've gone from playing a very poor side in Pumas to a good side at home in front of fans, you know, and that gap really needed to be, and I'm not, that's not evidence fault, well it's certainly not Rafa Benita's fault anyway, certainly not Rafa Benita's fault. You like him, you don't like him, you can't pin that on him. The pre-season was, you know, already shorted and we were supposed to play Adeline Tamalan or Arsenal in that game. Which would have been a step up. Which would have been a step up and then obviously we didn't. So I don't know whether they could have got someone in between to fill the gap or whatever, but they decided not to for whatever reasons. I don't know, maybe that needs to be looked at, but the gap just felt like it was a big step up. And obviously if you're going into the season the week after, but I've had some respects though. You know where we need to be now, don't we? We've seen everything, like the week before and go, oh my god this is going to be horrendous and the week after we go and play well. Because it's like everyone wakes up to the fact that it is a Premier game and you can. And this week will be intense, I'm sure this week will be intense. We've got a crowd back at Gouldersland the weekend. Everyone should be, regardless of whether you like Rafa Benita's, don't like Rafa Benita's, you're not, you're indifferent about Rafa Benita. Whatever, we're all going to be back in the stadium that we've wanted to be in for 18 months. We've had to go and it's been part, there's been a small crowd. It's going to be great to be back in, it's going to be buzzing. We'll get able to go rematch. I think we'll be fine this weekend, but it is stuff that needs ironing out and there will be a lot. The one thing I would say about him, whether people like him or not, the one thing he is, we know what he's like, he's meticulous and he will be wearing and looking at every minute detail. In some respects, right? In some respects, if you want to be ultra positive about Saturday, at least they've made clear cut mistakes that he can look and go, watch this, watch that. And I hope you like. After he said that after the game, he said that after the game. He was visibly angry and he said he's done mistakes. So there you go. So things like the Harry Maguire one, which was the digger, I think I'm sharp setting the thing. You can have your own on Markham, but if you're Michael Keane and you're Markham Mason Greenwood, who's one foot three, but I mean it's smaller, but you've just seen Harry Maguire, just say to look at the thing you have him and I'll say, you can keep your zone, but you can't leave the big it. They only had one fella who was going to cause any issue in the box on Saturday, and it was Harry Maguire. Bad head. The ball only has to be anywhere near him and it's all the time. So you've got to, you know, it's little things like that. And you're absolutely right with the change from moving from that two banks of four back to what a lot of people are scared of with the zone of Markham. It's got to, you've got to take ownership of that. And I don't, I think that if I'm going to criticise anything about this team, we don't have people who take ownership. No, we saw that under Karl, I want you to know. That's where I worry about the backline because I do think we need a centre back who's commanding you play, but has to play every game and has to be the person who's in control. Oh, yeah, he can do that for now. Yeah. The thing is, they always play every game. That's the problem. And you just can't put your house on keying because you just can't. But no, it was disappointing. And of course, it exposes all the, all the risks that are in the effort and fan base at the moment. We've seen that it, it really does exploit. It allows, it allows the negativity to come into it. Of course it does. Just, you've got to hope that doesn't rear it down, Satti, because there's nothing this manager can do about that. These plays were bought, you know, most of them by previous managers or previous direct or directors of football or previous directors of football, you know, and have been signed off by the owner. You know, and that's where the trouble of this, we all know what the problems are. It's been, in the last week or so, I think people have woke up to the fact that there isn't just going to be, when people go, we're going to have to sell. People are waking up to the fact that we are going to have to sell them now. And there isn't going to be this thing where someone goes, I will just pull this £20 million player, because if we were going to, we would have already had to. I would have had. And people don't think I'm waking up that and being angry, I'm getting angry about it. I mean, that's the thing. People are getting angry. They're being angry at the wrong people though. This is what makes me laugh. They're being angry at a manager who has been in the job for five minutes and, you know, didn't bring these players. He's brought three players into a solid squad players, because that's all he could bring in because of the absolute pathetic bias that we've both in the past. If you look around the transfer market at the moment, though, there's not loads of deals being done. Teams are still doing stuff, but Villar have been able to do stuff because they knew they were selling the acrylic. If we knew that, we could sell Moise Keane or whatever, then we'd be able to go, yeah, we'll have you and you, because he's gone now. And then, you know, they go and buy Danny Hings, and then Southampton, they've got money to go and bring somebody in, and that's how it works, isn't it? We know that. But there's still three weeks to go, and the hope is that we do, as you move towards the end of the window, teams do start being able to support some, but the market feels dead at the moment, as I'm speaking to. No, it is dead. I'm speaking to a couple of people, ones that are Asians and so on. I was like, no one's got any money, like there's, it's like, it's like COVID, there's like hit. They have, they have, and nobody else has. And you need it to buy it. They're super league clubs, they've got, they've still got all the money. They've got all the money. They've got all the money, and everyone else hasn't, and it is that knock-and-effect, if you want plays, you're going to have to, you know, you're either going to have to sell one of your, you know, your big players. But again, you need a bit for it. Yeah, which no one wants to do, but everybody else is just, no one, I mean, it's showing up. Yeah, nobody wants, I mean, also it's a, it is a massive slight on the players themselves, no one's, because they're just not good enough. They don't offer anything. No one's looking at a Fabian Delft going, oh, do me, eh? You know, nobody in the championship's buying it. No, because there's no money. So no one's, no one's looking up and going, well, we'll get him from the Premier League. So there's no, it's what, I think what we might see towards the end of the window is a few long deals where it's like almost slaving, and you could see and I haven't, haven't been speaking to PSV again a bar alone for Dumfries with the option to buy, and maybe they'll be, maybe some clubs as we move towards the end of the day, and they'll start looking and go, actually, we'll take that gap, and everything might do with Moise Keane. I do think, yeah, I do think in the final weeks, and that, I think it could be a mad final week, mad final couple of weeks. I think a lot, I think maybe the loan with the obligation, because you're putting it, you've thrown it forward. But then you've got to hope that Inter don't come in for them, because they've now got the money. Oh, yeah, well if they can't, not, not, but again, that's them selling their big stars. But they're never going to have to look and the Feller, they've got the fourth goal of the weekend. They'll be available for a loan that a lot, and that's making them united, if you can do that kind of deal. But who knows, Chelsea buying, Chelsea buying a centre forward for that much, they might go, we need a couple of our books now, and maybe that's where everything can get a couple of decent loans in. We're going to have to do it, it's frustrating, because we said that before, we want to be able to buy who we want, you know, and we can't, and that's the frustration, is that it? And I think people are waking up to it now and going, oh yeah, remember when we were spending and other people were saying, it's not my money, I don't care how much you spend. Every club, not even, I don't know if you've seen a Feller yesterday, crying his eyes out, because you can't remain a Barcelona. You've seen other, if you're an Inter fan, you've just blitzed the league. Everything's amazing in me, you've won the league, you're great with Champions League next week, next week, you manage your walks, you've lost your right back that's scored, or you go, your main centre forward's gone. There's another player gone, Martinis, Spurs are trying to take Martinis as well. A couple of players could be going to Leste. Yeah, Broz, who've been off for the last five years, who's been off for the day. So all of a sudden, Inter have gone and ended up with a team man. They're going to get Jaco in to replace La Caca. So all of a sudden, they're looking and going, you know, we might, we're battling to stay up here, because we've won the league and everything's gone. That football finance has been hammered, and this again, this is why the Super League was this and it is what it is. It wasn't great. No one could sit there and go, oh, you know what, I feel, but what we must say is in the second half, we should have had a penalty. And the time Dave has won was a penalty, but he's hit the bar, could have gone in. We had Damari Gray, actually a good little bit of football out to a mow being gone and almost happening. To me fair, could have ended up off of a 4-3. Damari Gray and Tansen have looked very lively. They've looked the brightest out of any of our players, they've injected a little bit. What do you think Elucidine, I thought? He's miles off, mate. I thought he was magnificent. He's miles off. I was thinking. He's miles off. It's because he's a player, he's come, remember when he came back when he got injured in his first game in the FA Cup, and I thought he got destroyed in that game, but a couple of games later, he was fine. No, no, I look, no, no, I'm just saying the same. I was just, because he came, I was thinking. He was miles off. Even the header back to Pickford, and I know it was Pickford's fault, but even the header, he wouldn't, he wouldn't, he wouldn't know me do that. That's not, he's got a little bit more time about him. He's miles off. Yeah, the, apparently the, because it was man United's feed, wasn't it? But apparently the man United commentator said Fabian Delth just excelled in that second half. So he was exceptional. Interesting. I thought he touched the ball twice in the game. I thought he was absolutely visual, because that's what he is. But listen, listen, nice to see Lewis Dobbins get on. It was, it was. Nice to see, nice to see the man and to have a little bit of faith in him he got on. And Cunky was warm enough for about half an hour. Never got on, did he? Which was a bit mad. Well, four. Can I just, can I just keep a woby as fit as he can, so that he passes a medal. The fourth goal, the fourth goal was again a wow classic a woby. I'll go and close the ball down. Well, I'll jog so it looks like I've closed it down, but then, but I have to do, I have to say as well, yet he mean it, just allowing the lad to stoop in it. It was poor defending as well. Got to be, got to be back there. But he's only just come back. Now, face me. He's only just come back. But it, it, listen, well, pound for pound, Alex Wobby is the way he's played ever in the river. No, he is though. I have to reiterate, I have to reiterate, no. He's pound for pound the way he's played ever in the river board. What I would say is we just, everything moves. But he's going to have a great season. Everything, everything moves to, to Saturday night. And we get everyone ready to go. We've got a couple back from, we went there this weekend in the forward areas and off we go. And we move from there, but there's still three weeks left. I'm still hopeful that we can bring a couple in. And also, if anyone needed to confer with that, we need the right back. Again, it's not, you know, shame is a couple of good moments early on. Where Dan, Dan James, right, I've run him a couple of times. He didn't, which was brilliant, but, but he did just drift off the game. And then he probably should have been sent off, to be fair. But although the ref was terrible. Oh, he was, you know what, you know, what was really, I was rotsing a bit with my dad. And I was, we were just a friendly, so it wasn't thingy, but honestly, at one stage in the second half onto the boot, we tell each other, I was like, it's a friendly, and he's still a nob. The penalty was just the thingy, the one where thingy got taken out when he was in the, was it a woby? Yeah. It was like a wafer in brand of millions. He took them out and he can get on. You just like, oh mate, stop it now. The games, you know, put the ears. But there you go. Happy for all the blues you got to go to an away game, got to see Hamas Rodriguez, even though he was absolutely rubbish. It doesn't look like he looked assed, but that showed a couple of nice moments. He doesn't look assed, let's be honest with you. He doesn't look fit and he doesn't look assed. But that's a story for another day. There you go. Let us know your thoughts in the comments on this game and yeah, how much are you looking forward to this season? We'll have a season preview this week as well and obviously the match preview for the game on Saturday, so stay tuned for them. 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