 Welcome to Toffy TV. Everton have signed another player. It's John Philippe Gabamon. Gabamon. Gabamon. I hope you like Gabamon too. I can't take credit for that someone on Twitter. Trevor McKinley wasn't he? Was he, yeah? The Pav Broth. The Pav Broth. I don't know whether the captain, it does sound a bit like John Philippe, come on. I've got a song for him. I meant there's play by the way. He'll never sing the song ever again. John Philippe Gabamon brought in as a replacement for Idrishet Ghan. I get fabulous play by the way. What are your thoughts on the fact that Everton have moved quite swiftly? I can't honestly sit here, hand on heart saying that I know loads about this player. But this seems to be the name that was identified straight away as soon as in the last week or so, when it looked like Paris Saint-Germain were coming back for Ghan and obviously ultimately did. This was the name straight away that we looked like we wanted. There was talk saying that Everton weren't going to sell Ghan until we had a replacement in. So that's happened quite swiftly. This is the player they've wanted. The fee seems reasonable. The player I imagine has got the attributes or something he can grow into. The attributes that Ghan had and maybe a little bit more. All you can do is trust, again, it's trust, isn't it? And that's all you can go with. Some plays when you sign them straight away you'll know a lot about them because they've either played in the Premier League or played in the Champions League. This guy has been just a little bit under the radar a little bit. When we bought Ghan and we bought him from Aston Villa he played in the Premier League, being relegated with them. A lot of us were like, I don't remember him playing against us. For me I'm just glad that we've done our business, obviously, swiftly and got it done. Let's hope the lad can come in and do the job. He's a good athlete, big, good range of passion on him. He's a little bit more progressive with the ball than what Ghan is. Ghan will shove things down a little bit better than he will, but he can grow into that. But talking to Andy Baltimore as well when we were discussing him on a previous video, his positional centre is quite good. He can play centre-back as well and he's played for the Ivory Coast at centre-back. And right-back as well. So getting a player who is quite adaptable as well, I think, which is always appealing, I think. David Moyes was great at having a player who could fill in a couple of positions, but he's had a great ace, 23s, not 24s, late in the year. And I think having, again, a physical presence in the midfield, when you think of Armidfield a few years ago, like Tom Cleverley in it and people like that, they were all of my size basically. You get bullied when you go to teams like Wofford and Palliser with big units. Even Liverpool now are big, but you look at Armidfield now with him in it and Andre Gomes and Guilfee is not exactly small. And you've got Michael Keane and Jeri Mina. I've got my neck all but loom when he's in there. They're all big lads and it means that when them games, when it's a battle, you're not physically overcome. But also though, just on that, inside games when it might take a set piece either way, if you've got players in the box that can keep the ball alive, only at the other end, clear the ball. That's it. I mean, we've seen that in the last few games of the season. Manchester United, that's not important, those throw-ins way. So that's a really... I mean, that's where we've, you know, players like Tom Davies, Suffage because of the state size. When you see, as soon as Gomez came in and we've seen him against Crystal Palace, suddenly having someone with a bit of a statue who can haul players off. That's so important. I think you've got to be quicker if you're not big out of me. The Premier League, where you don't really get that time as such, especially in the midfield area. The first thing you've got to do is get protect the ball. And that's where players like Davie Class and Suffage, where they want to direct a second maybe to get used to the Premier League, but couldn't aim that second by getting in. So coming in and having that physical statue is a really important thing in the Premier League. So his age is really important as well. Listen, he mightn't come in and do exactly what Ghana done, because Ghana was the best in the league of what he did. His numbers say that. I mean, other people can throw names at, but for what he did and the job he did was hugely important. It was the only player to complete over 100 tackles in three seasons he played for ever. And he wasn't someone who gave... He wasn't someone who booked a lot out of that. He was very disciplined as well. This lad's played 95 games, you know, 31, 31, 33. That's very similar to what Ghana did in the field. So for mine, he started off at Lens, and their B team went into their first team and went over to Germany. So it's a lad who plays in that position and his numbers stack up as that how many games he plays and his discipline is quite good. He's obviously physically bigger than what Ghana is. So, you know, it looks as though we're getting someone who's along the same lines as Ghana. Again, representative France had a young age, but then moved to the... You know, when I'm represented by Ivory Coast, he was parents and stuff. So he's played, you know, for Ivory Coast, like you say, centre-mid, centre-back. I do think, though, that having the ability to play centre-back and right-back is hugely important. Not saying, you know, you want a player to go in those roles, but having someone in the squad that you can say, even Jordan again, you know, if you get an injury and you want, you need to, you know, if you've already made all your subs and you're looking around going, well, who can play in that position and suddenly you're having to shuffle people around. That's hugely important. And I think we've mentioned this before. It's something that's actually gone out of football since the seven... Subs, right. ...cruins coming off for some countries. They have, like, you know, literally everyone's a sub or everyone who's available. So that's gone out of the window, but if you've got players on the bench, on the pitch who can play a couple of roles, it does mean that a free place has opened your squad, where one minute you're looking at the squad thing and it's a bit barren, but if you've got players you can play a couple of positions. It does make a difference, I think, that, you know, something, and I'll be speaking about it, we have spoken about it before, where Moise really did have those players. It's not something you want to rely on, but it's good that you've got it, got it. But the other thing as well is that we're trying to trim a squad, a bloated squad, on big money and stuff. So if you're starting to pull their numbers down, but yet you've still got that player that can do a couple of them roles, it negates the need to keep people hanging around because you might need a backup. And that's where, and if you've got a couple of those players, so say you've got a... We've got Delph, haven't we? That's what I'm saying. So you can have what you could say, if we were desperate for a right back, you could go and play right back and then Delph could go into my field. You've got those options where before I'm just scratching your head thinking, well, we need to play a backup play for every single position. But everything can carry a backup player for every single position with not having European football. So that does help. Okay, when times are really tough and you need to call on plays, it might not always be, you know, advantageous if you haven't got a fully stock squad. But I think that's a big benefit of bringing them in. Again, perfect age. You know, 23 can grow into that position. He's done well at mind. He's moved. He's ready for the next stage of his career. He's come to Everton. He's going in at that age. We're getting that youthful side. We spoke about a bit Moise Keane coming in. You know, we've got Richie Arliss in there. Andre Gomez is just in 25 or whatever, 26. Luca Deane's 25. There's a lot of Michael Keane's 25, 26. You know, they're all of a great age. Now, if you remember a few years ago, we had a lot of, we were older, older players, you know, one of the older squads around. And then now, you know, Marcel Brands is trying to flip it. And for coming in for very, you know, similar money. Yeah, yeah, of course. Similar money to what we've released garnered for, probably on lower wages than garnered as well. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, you look from that point of view. Okay, listen, we'd love to have kept garnered, but for the age, it makes sense to, you know, and the squad starting to turn around to feel like it is getting younger. And listen, we'll have to wait and see. Can't sit here and go, going to be amazing. No, people develop differently in the Premier League, but this is the player they wanted. They've gone and got him. And that's, that's all you can, that's all you can do as a trust. This is a fella who Yegan Klopp tried to buy for Liverpool last summer. And it didn't quite happen with what was happening because they've looked at him. So he's on it. A lot of people are aware of him. He's a, you know, he's a good player. I think one thing that the bits are cheap is that he travels well with the ball. So when the space opens up, he attacks it and he's big and strong and he's really quick. Over the ground, very quick. Really quick. He doesn't listen, he's ended up, he's got eight goals in 215 games. So he's not, he's not someone. That's an indication of most players in that position. No, it is. So what I'm saying is people shouldn't have the expectation that he'll come in and get goals because that's not his game. But what he does do really well is he travels through the lines with the ball really well. He's quick. Which is such an important thing. Yeah. And if your is size, driving into space, it means players have to go and engage in which then threes up. People like Bernard. So, like, you're absolutely right. We'll have to see how he settles in it. It all sounds great on paper. But if he can transition, it's formed what he's shown in the Bundesliga over to the Premier League for us and go in and do the job Marco Silva wants them to do. And as opposed to beauty of it is, we've got Fabian Delft there as well. The man is going out. But we've got two lads now for that position. Almost for that position. I know we see Delft a bit more like Gomez. But Delft can do the fetching and the carrying for it as well. Don't forget as well though. In every game, you don't always need... Every team that progresses, you want them to be a little bit more attacking and of course you want that endurance. But you're not always needing that one player who is entirely defensive. You need, you know, that kind of thing. That kind of thing. But one other thing about him is positional sense is really good on he tends to hold the position. Garn is sometimes when putting fires out and it would leave gaps every night. More often than not he got back to comfort the gap. But there was some gaps there where he does or what he's done in his career is filled his position really well and understand the position. I think that's key. To have someone who can sit there and know his position but is quick enough to get about the pity thing is a big thing. Iel bring something different to Garner. Some things I've said to people, some things he won't be as good as Garner with, but other things he'll be better. His long range passing is fantastic. So, you know, we can only hope that he settles in quickly, but I think it's a good sign, it's a smart sign by Everton. And I think the biggest thing is that we've moved quickly to plug the gap where Garner's gone. And I know, listen, we're heading towards the end of the transfer window and people have been nervous and worried. And rightly so in some cases, but it's this further evidence to you to finish that. We have to just trust what they're doing and just let it play out. Yeah, that's what else can you do. I mean, what else can you do? We are not privy to every single thing that goes on at the club, you know, and all you can do is... I honestly think that with the way the money is at the club and the way it's tied up in other players that are not needed, that we will try and do deals towards the last week. And I don't know whether this will be, this is just a short term thing and it might only last for this summer and maybe next summer. But because we have got so much money tied up in other players, we are trying to get the best deals and the best deals can't be done till the last 10 days of the window. What I was thinking of was also as well is that because we're buying from European clubs, they're windows and shut till the 31st of August, so it's us trying to hurry them on, they'll sell when they're good and ready. And we're seeing it, we've said this, we said it on the transfer show, FFP is kicking in with a lot of clubs now, isn't it? But the question is though, and I've had this before, we had this last summer, is a lot of people scare munger with the fact that our windows shut before theirs does, but they're relying on our money to go out and go and do their business afterwards. So it's alright saying, oh I'm dead worry because all that business, it didn't happen last season, we'll wait and see what happens this summer, but they'll take this money and they'll go into France and they'll go and buy a player. But they've still got. And they've got another couple of weeks to go and do that. But they've now got our money and don't forget that this is not me being a Premier League centre, but it is the Premier League money that tends to drive. A path in the big clubs of course, but it is the Premier League money that drives Europe. But they're more likely to keep you dangling in the hope that you will just go, we've got a week left of our window. Of course they will, everyone will. Because they've got the luxury of three more weeks, haven't they? Of course, but we've seen this with others. So we have to. Going down to the last day of the month in May, or the June, sorry, because they had to have payments and all this kind of thing. Well they did it last year, they had Dave Harrison running around Barcelona on deadline, having to run between three things just in time to get it through because they're un-going and un-going. And that's what it's about isn't it? And I think sometimes us as fans, we want it done. But all of this game-playing and poker is going on and you've got Ophella there who's trying to juggle lots of plates and keep the deals up. And sometimes it'll work and sometimes it won't. Of course, he's not going to get everything, is he? But we'll have to wait and see. For me I think it's a really positive sign because it's a smart sign and to get him in quickly, so quick after losing Ghana this week, I think it's a big thing for Everton. 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