 Welcome to Toffy TV, well lots of rumours around about Adrissa Garnagate. Is he coming back to Everton? Well it certainly seems like he might be. So it's time to see whether he is going to improve Everton. It's time to have a little chat about it like we've done with a lot of potential signings this summer. Will Adrissa Garnagate improve Everton, Ned? Do you think, just with the eye test, do you think Adrissa Garnagate will improve Everton? Yes, and I think out of all the players we've looked at whether they do improve Everton, I think he's probably the most certified one to improve Everton. I'd say we've looked at some players who, well obviously the thing with Garnagate is he's already played for Everton. I think he's in his 30s now, I think he's 32, but he's not at an age where he's passed it. If anything he's probably a better player than he was when he left. He's gone and played with top, top players at PSG, gone and won stuff. He's probably adapted his games in terms of playing with the position he's been playing in. He's took more of an attacking role, which he was always good going forward for Everton, but I think he's played more of a defensive role than he did in PSG. He's played in the midfield three. He's still a very energetic player and Everton's got a lot of midfielders, but they're all very different type of midfielders. I think we do need someone who's busy like Garnagate, he's mobile, get around the pitch to full of energy. Disciplined is obviously quality wise. We are missing some quality in the midfield, I think he brings that. I still think we need, well I don't know if it's what they want, but I personally would want a proper natural number six, someone defensive minded, someone who sits, we can drop to make a back three, but Everton might not be looking for that. They might be thinking we're going to play a back three and have a midfield two, one stay, one will go. If that's the way we're looking at playing then he suits it. To be honest he suits any midfield we could play to be honest. I think what Everton have been missing in the last three years is just a Garnagate. It's as simple as that. I think we've missed him since the day he left. I think Michael Silver spoke recently about his time at Everton and obviously he said they were trying to build something, a young team, and to lose a player like Garnagate was a big blow for them, especially when his replacement got injured so soon after. We've never truly replaced them and if it comes down to the fact that we're replacing them with himself then I don't have too many issues with that in the short term. I think his skillset is far beyond what we've already got at the club. His ability in the Premier League obviously attracted someone like Paris Saint-Germain who were a top club who wanted someone in midfield who was destructive but also had the energy to put fires out around the pitch but also someone who centres that danger but then wins the ball back and then does the simple thing. I actually think there's more to his game and I think we never truly unlocked his potential when he was that ever and I think he's someone who can carry the ball forward. Whether you'd be required to do that I don't know but if you are playing in a two and one sits and one goes then you do need both sides of it rather than just someone who's just going to sit. He was a Paris Saint-Germain with some top players and he was playing some big games because you can have a team full of Messi and Neymar and Bapet but you need people to do the hard work the other side of the game and I think he does that brilliantly. I think it truly is that ability to sense danger and understand where he needs to be that allows you to play that two midfield because it's like two plays when he was at heaven. His first six months at heaven when he first signed were absolutely phenomenal. He was unbelievable and then he tailed off a little bit and he went the African nations and he tailed off a little bit. The way question marks about obviously things like his pattern and stuff but when he wasn't in the side you suddenly saw how important he was to the team and breaking up the play and then getting us on the front foot. I think that will be a big skill set I think that he will bring to the club is being at someone in Paris Saint-Germain understanding that it was his job to break up the play and then release the better players will be a big thing and of course he won't be playing the better kind of plays he's playing in Paris Saint-Germain but understanding that role. Again it's about his first six months his last four or five months at the club you know he had you know Paris Saint-Germain came in for him in the January and we wouldn't let him go and from then on he was phenomenal those last few months he was absolutely phenomenal. Absolutely phenomenal people may have forgotten how good he was but he was incredible the professionalism he showed and then you know and then obviously leaving the club it was at the time it did feel like it you know well he's done his job and moving on to bigger things but when your club doesn't replace them or obviously we know what happened to good bammons so I just think it's an absolute no brainer. I think he's still got the energy he's got the skill set he's got more of a skill set being somewhere like Paris Saint-Germain and I just don't think we've got anyone like him in our midfield right now. Well obviously he's been playing with top players and top coaches top managers and playing that team like that you demanded more you're not just there to break up play and get the ball you demanded to get the ball and you have to have the quality to pass it has to be better it has to be perfect you have to create chances you have to score goals and he's proved he can do that he's proved he's a better player going forward as well as well. He played more of a defensive role at Everton and obviously he left it we knew he was going in that January we knew he was going to go in the summer. My thing was we can sit here and moan about the ball all day we know we've got recruitment on it should have been replaced we should already have a replacement for him now even though good bammons not done so well. We've missed players like Bersumer and Chetnokori and Sangari plays like that but in the short term we're talking about just as a footballer ability and coming in proven a squad and we've signed players before older than him and certainly past their peak and he's probably still in his peak I'd say or not far from it. We've signed players like Gareth Barreen plays like that before he was coming in and been massive players for us and certainly in the short term we're talking about getting away from the bottom half of the table and trying to get up what we need midfielders. We've got depth but there's not a lot of quality in there there's not a lot of plays like Ghana Gay so he definitely does bring that quality we need and his numbers have always been phenomenal I'm sure I'll have a look at them in a minute. The experience that he's gained as well you know this is a player who helped Paris Saint-Germain get to a Champions League final in his first season you know he's won a couple of titles there you know he's won cups you know he's won a super cup the other day he's won he's had brilliant experiences there and that pressure you were talking about before the pressure though the pressure to win games as well to win important games big games having that having that like that drive that a lot of things. A lot of our plays haven't gone or haven't experienced you know there's been a lot of talk about the kind of plays we've got and you know a lot of them have been relegated or have been in you know being in those situations. There aren't players too many players at Evan if any that have been involved in big big important games that means something you know being involved in and around the Champions League final you know what I mean that's huge you know I know he wasn't you know he didn't play in that in the Champions League final against Bayern Munich. Just to be part of that and part of the team that got them there is a huge factor those day to day pressures of winning the you know winning the title and winning trophies and being involved in the Champions League. You know they're big games pass and you might have been involved in some really really big games in the last three years while he's been there and he's played in a lot of those games you know likes of games against Manchester City and Real Madrid and things like that he's been involved in them and that's just big experience that he's going to be that you know if he does sign. He'll sign for everything he'll be bringing bringing with him. Well even if you're not playing those big games you're in it he's been in it for a few years not since 2019 for three years he's been in it in a dressing room full of winners and he'll come back a different character because he'll come back out being in a team which expects to win every game like. I remember I can't remember what it was now he said I think it might have been Wayne Rooney actually he went to United and he said they expected wins every game where Everton would win an away game they'd be out celebrating. But Garnagail come in he'll have that same mentality he'll expect to win every game and if players' levels drop off a PSG if it happened there'd be a lot of unhappy about it so if that happens at Everton you can bring that leadership skills and that character to me and you can say this is good you know we lost a game. One of the reasons why you know he's surplus of crime is because they are looking for those bigger players because they haven't achieved that ultimate thing of winning the Champions League even though I do think at times they've got the balance completely wrong and they've gone far too attack minded and not had more plays like Garnagail in the team and the team's been unbalanced but they're going to be looking for obviously younger options who will get them to where they want to be. Which is obviously will be the Champions League and they've had the right clear out in terms of the manager and what they're trying to do as a club and hopefully it does come off because I think he's a huge player but let's just look at his numbers from last season. So games 26, 3 goals, big chances created 3, pass accuracy 93% is tackles per game 2.3. I've actually got his stats as well, I'll compare them now. His last season for Everton so he played 33 games, 26 in his last for PSG, scored 0 goals, scored 1, how many was it for his last season then, was it 3? 3 goals he scored. He's created no big chances and he tackles per game 4.3 so that shows he's playing more a defensive role at Everton, he was busy but he's been adapted to have more a tackle role. The difference we're playing at PSG though is that you are pushing on as a team so more chances are going to be made and that will be interesting to see if he does sign whether that will be something that he'll be asked more to do. Let's just compare his numbers with Alan's numbers from last season. So 28 games, no goals, no big chances created, pass accuracy is obviously less 80% tackles per game 2.6. You can look at that and you can say well he's playing in the Premier League and he's Ghana's playing for Paris Saint-Germain so obviously there is a difference there. But obviously the pass accuracy I think for Ghana has gone up and I just think that the difference is, I think Alan is a good player who I think would be better, would look better if he was playing next to Ghana. I just think Ghana gets around the pitch better, I think he sees the danger quicker and gets there and I just think that level is something Everton have been lacking in the last three seasons. I think Alan's a good player, I don't always think he's being played correctly at Everton but I think Ghana just gets around, I think he's more mobile, I think he's just on the higher level. The thing is I think Paris Saint-Germain looked at Alan before he looked at Ghana and then obviously he broke Ghana in but I just think he's Ghana's just at a better level and that as I said that experience of playing with those better players and playing in those big matches that could be really really key to Everton. Obviously he's been at the club before, he knows what we're about, he'll slop straight back in, it's a different thing, it's a different regime, different director of football, different manager but it's still good at St Park, it's still the same fans, it's still Finch Farm, it's still Premier League football and for me this is a no brainer that hopefully Everton can get over the line. He's a different player to Alan in terms of, he's still got his energy and his legs, they're both similarising like none of them are natural, they don't sit and protect a back phone or that type of midfielder but Alan's not got quite the stamina and the energy and the legs to get around and break up playing but get tackles in anymore and he's not got quite that discipline to sit and play in a two, we could play in a three with a natural number six behind him but like I said we've not got that so I think playing a two in midfield Ghana's certainly got that legs that we're missing and discipline as well to be honest on the ball, we've said we've been quite wasteful in our own half, trying to get the ball forward, we started against Kiev trying to get the ball forward, some of the passes were a bit poor so if he can come in and you know he's quite calm on the ball, he's got that extra quality, he's been playing with top players to get the ball turned and take it forward and that's brilliant. One of the things I've noticed in pre-season as well is the lack of ability to win the ball back as well, certainly on the edge of the box, you know you look at moments against, I know it's only pre-season but you look at moments against Minnesota, against Kiev, against Blackpool, Arsenal, there was times when on the edge of the box players were going over and not being able to force anything with a press or with a tackle and the ball was just getting moved through them and I think what he gives us is that ability. The ability to break up the play and allow us to then break ourselves and I just don't think we've got that at the moment so for me it's a massive yes, he does improve Everton and hopefully Everton can get this over the line because for me it would be a really cute sign and I know the issues over his age and possibility of his wages and that kind of thing so Evan have got to be clever, Evan have got to be clever, I know there's not a massive amount of money around but they've still got to be added in the Premier League and in the plays you can be added so let us know your thoughts in the comments. Do you think a Disagana Gay would improve this Everton team, let us know your thoughts in the comments, make sure to give this video a like and subscribe if you haven't already and if you want more great videos, daily live videos, exclusives. Head over to Toffy TV Premier, the link is in the description and it will be on the screen in a second. Thanks for watching, see you later.