 Welcome to Toffy TV, joined by Cam in the studio. She's going to have a little chat about Everton's recruitment process so far and what we still hope to do before the window shuts. It's, well, that's what he called, isn't it? It's second week in August, it's roasting. It is roasting, isn't it? I mean, have you found Everton's recruitment so far this summer? Positive, very, very positive, which isn't something a word I've used to describe Everton's recruitment very often in recent years. But it seems like there, I say, that we're moving in the right direction. It seems like there's a planet, it seems like Kevin Thalwell has come in and known what is needed to be done and sort of put it into place, which, you know, it's easy for us to sit in and say it wasn't hard because we sat here for years as Evertonians and said we need this type of player, we need that profile of player, we need, you know, this defender, that defender. But, you know, I can't imagine it to be the easiest job in the world when you come into a club that's so sort of scattered and everything all over the place and failed so miserably in that sort of sense over the last four or five years. I can't imagine it to be just as easy as coming in and getting it right. So I think Kevin Thalwell deserves a lot of credit, but the players that we're bringing in, I think the manager and director of football have so far seemed to get a good gel between players that are ready to step in now and improve Everton now. And then, obviously, your own honour and your Dwight McNeill, who are more sort of geared towards the future, can still step in and do that role now, but have got five, six years ahead of them where they'll lean and they'll become much better footballers. We knew we needed centrebacks this season. We went out and bought Tarkovsky, one of the most reliable centreoffs in the country and has come in and since being here has done a brilliant job. We then needed another centreback. We went and brought in, you know, a captain of Assad, who was a leader and missed three Premier League games in 46 years or whatever it is, and has been really solid. And one thing I think I give credit for is for far too long, Everton, of whether it be paperously or not paperously, brought in players that one week might be a 10 out of 10, and the next week it'll be a one out of 10. And you can't build a team around those types of players because there's no consistency, there's no reliability. And the players on the pitch that are around them, Jordan Pickford might be looking at a certain centre defender and thinking, I don't know if I'm getting a 10 out of 10 out of you or if I'm getting a one out of 10 out of 10 out of you. Whereas now with Tarkovsky and Cody, they're the types of players that you know you're getting seven, eight out of 10 every week consistently. They'll never be unbelievable. They'll probably never be really bad, they'll just be there. And I think we've identified that this summer, O'nana is a great sign and young enough for coming. I think the Ghana sign works with O'nana coming in, if Ghana is to come in, of course. And now we're just a striker away from. We'll obviously come on. So that put just back on Tarkovsky, obviously. A few eyebrows were raised when Everton were looking at him by shitting fans and stuff. And you looked, there's been a message, hasn't it? That's gone amongst the evertonians of young, hungry players and all that, but he was on a free transfer given his Premier League experience. He was a no brainer, wasn't he? And also he's proven, since he's been here, he's actually a better footballer than people giving credit for. That was the best passes of the book. Passes, passing so far has been absolutely fantastic. And you're right with... We obviously kicked the Premier League season off last week. We had a centre back after 10 minutes with a broken leg. And we lost the other one after whatever it was, an hour, 70 minutes, an ease off for a while as well, and then to go and get Conor Cody on the Monday. And now Everton had started the ball roll in the previous week, but it was imperative we needed... We got Cody in as quickly as possible to get him. And you're right those two come in a no fuss, Adi. They're both lads who were hard on the training ground, set examples, loads of Premier League experience between them. I'm not going to go back over the injury stuff because I don't want to think anything, but the leaders. But the Franklin path spoke of pains at the end of last season about robust footballs. We need robust plays, we need people who are going to be available. We need leaders and certainly in those too, as a partnership. That's what he's, him and Kevin Thell will have been able to bring in. I think the pair of them are a fantastic challenge. Conor Cody won, it's still a little bit surreal, not the sense that he's the best defender on the planet and we're sitting here going, oh my God, but it's just a bit surreal, such a solid defender who's been at the forefront of a Wolves team. And not many teams do this when they come up to the Premier League. Teams will have a good season and then they'll struggle. Wolves come up and have been absolutely shant since they come up. And Conor Cody was a big part. I was reading an article in the Atletic last week, I think it was in the Atletic, talking about how in Wolves's academy they teach the Cody role to the young lads because he was brought in as a central midfielder, goal scorer midfielder, he was brought in at Wolves apparently. And he's adapted himself that much over the years that he's now in a role that they teach to the young players, such that leadership role in the back three slash five. And there's ultimately two players that are going to come in and give absolutely everything and are no nonsense. They know how to defend, they do the basics and that's what we need it. Just on that, we will move on. But just on that, that's really important for the development of Wolves. We've got obviously V-Swell shoes, a young centre back. Got the act, looks like physically he's gone off the attribute. For him to be training with these lads, leaning off them, even someone like Mason Holgate, who I thought had a good game when he'd come on against Chelsea, is a centre back who's lost his way and a lot of people probably shouting at the camera now going he's not good enough or whatever. But he's proven at times he is good enough. But then he's done that thing, I think we've both talked about loads of times where he's just dipped and dipped too often. If you've got him working with them every day and they are leaders and he's seen how they behave and how they organise in games, then you'd like to think that it would rub off on him. And then Ben Goffrey, when he comes back from his injuries, a young centre back who's still at times positionally not right. Pace wise, fantastic, strong, in the tackle, excellent. Not great in the air, so he's got to improve that. But position, I think with Ben Goffrey, he's going to develop surely. The coaches on the pitch aren't they ultimately? Into the same with James Coleman and Nathan Patterson, it'll be the same with Ghana and Oana. This was my point with Ghana when we were first initially linked with him. I said I've got no problem because Ghana improves us in the here and now, which I understand for Frank and Kevin Velwell, they'll have been looking at that team thinking we need players that are going to come in now and improve us. But it was always going to be, well, what's next after Ghana? Because in two or three years, Ghana won't be here. So it's all right bringing Ghana in. Well, who's going to be the next to Ghana and then we brought in Oana? And that's because bringing in experienced players like Ghana, Tarkovsky, Cody, Oana. That's said Oana, didn't it? Oh, sorry, sorry. Listen to it that much, that it just be fun. Go on then. The coach on the pitch, he's already seen Tarkovsky in the very few games he's had as an Everton player already. You can see him talking to people, moving people, leading as by example. And Everton have been a club for far too long. We've just had no leadership on the pitch, no communication. Players that dropped the red when they conceded. Do you watch any of Wolves as Gold conceded last season? Connor, Cody doesn't drop the red. The red doesn't go down, it comes up. Same with Tarkovsky, it comes up. They scream, they shout, they move people about. That is ultimately what we've needed as players in there to be solid, Premier League-experienced, reliable centre-backs for sentiment-fielders, but also players that will be able to coach the younger players. And I think Ben Goffrey will learn endless amounts of Tarkovsky and Cody when he's back in. And if Mason Holgate is going to be a successful centre-back at Everton, he will do it, learn him from them too. We've also seen obviously Ruben van Agri come in to cover Michelenko and to battle with him for that left-back spot which I think is not a bad thing to have. He's obviously Premier League-experienced with Wolves playing Europe as well, so it's not a bad thing to have. And then into midfield, you've mentioned Oana, but you're excited about that, that's the one thing that's caught the imagination of a lot of Evertonians. Definitely, definitely. I'd have an Agri ones in Cestan, I think, because Premier League-experienced as well comes in, obviously, as I said, and ultimately not that Michelenko really needed a kick-up-the-backsag, because he's been absolutely brilliant since he's been here, but it's healthy competition and he'll be looking now, thinking, I can't get into this mindset whether it be conscious or subconscious of, I'm guaranteed this place every week here, so it doesn't matter. The Oana sign is brilliant. It's exactly the type of target, the profile of player that we've been sat here talking about Everton going for for years and I remember last summer, the summer before, we all sat here and said this type of player, and we never really seemed to go for that. It was almost like, oh, here we go. David Lynx, though. That's what I'm saying, but it was almost like, oh, are we going for this type of, and I remember last summer was Rabio and Adam Ramsey for six weeks, and now we seem to be looking at more Oana's coming in, even though obviously we've only seen a few bits of them. They do all right, and they're all unbelievable for songs as well, by the way, unbelievable for songs, but he speaks a lot of different languages, he almost, and this is going to sound mad because obviously I've watched him for a little, and I've seen him in bits, and from what I've seen of him at Everton is only the backstage stuff and a couple of pictures of him saying it, but he just, I don't know what it is, might just be me looking into it a bit much. He almost seems like a leader himself. He's sort of oozes, and it might because of his height, his physical presence, he oozes. I've seen a video going on on Twitter of a bit of the behind of the scenes of him signing, he says I'm not standing on it, he says I'm not, I don't believe in standing on it, so I'm not standing on it, and he goes and stands next to it, and it's just little things like that, he just seems like he's very assured of himself and knows himself, knows what he wants, not, you know, he's seeing other players and they're a bit shy and they're a bit like, he just seems like, you know, the video where he walks in the gym and he's like ah, boss this, he seems like he knows, and that's the type of personality you need, a player that's going to step on that pitch in the midfield and go right, I've got this, this is what I'm going to do, and we will have to be patient with them and he'll probably get a shock as it's the Premier League and it's a different league, but he's got all of the right attributes to be a top, top, top player. The other couple you've mentioned, obviously Ghana at the moment, may or may not, I've never have agreed to deal with PSG by all accounts and agreed to deal with Ghana by all accounts, there's something between him and PSG and he's obviously on very good wages in France and won't be on any way near them wages or evidence, so that might, you know, might be making them think, do I or don't I? Mo Camry, you've mentioned there was a link to him, I think Evan has been watching him for a while, a very interested in him, but it depends whether the finances work with that one, but if Evan were to get one of those two, we'd be happy, I think we'd be more than happy, especially if we go. For me if we go, I'd really like Ghana, if we go, come on it, I'd think because he's a proper shit. I meant to ask this before on the live, would there be, we're not going to get Camry and Ghana, we're not going to get the both of them now, Camry would be the one I think most Evertonians would say will obviously 10 years younger, loads of potential. In other words, we're talking about Cody and Tarkovsky working with Godfrey and Holgate and coaching on the pitch and Patterson with Coleman, et cetera, and it would have been Ghana with O'nana. Would there be a bit of yet, that would be sort of not worried, but questioning if you brought Camry and O'nana in who's going to be that one to sort of be able to coach them there and then or are you more just okay because it's Frank Lampard that he was a sentiment feeling because I think the big sort of I suppose, for me selling point with Ghana isn't Ghana coming back or Ghana being bossy, it was having somebody of Ghana's experience and quality when he was at his best was, let's be honest in the top two or three in the league at that role coaching O'nana, would there be a bit of a worry if it was Kamara coming, who's there in that midfield now to run, you could say D'Corey, but then them two seem to have a seal and that will be surpass D'Corey. It's a good question to be honest obviously Ghana has got all the experience, we know him, but he's three years older than he was but he's still, what I'd seen him from last season he was still all over the gap, so I think he improves us. So it is a good question because it does allow people like O'nana to grow I think he'd help D'Corey out to be honest, I think he'd help O'nana I think he'd help them, just naturally the way he is I think you trade that off with Moe Kamara as a six, you can play you can do other stuff as well, but he's 22 mobile, brave, cheaper way, you'd have him for longer a player you could flip in a few years even if he does really well and sell on again so there is one of them so if you go for potential with Kamara sitting and then you've got D'Corey and O'nana or a Wobie and O'nana with them three in there yes might be a little bit of inexperience maybe, but if you know the role then the role doesn't change if you're a six and Austria of course there's a difference in the premier league but still your position and he's mobile enough, so he's not going to get done with the mobility but I do get the point because Ghana is experienced and he's also been playing with Messi it just seems like that's the planet team, it's a lovely problem to have it's a lovely position to be in to go well if you don't get him, you get him and the both go play and then obviously very quickly just to wrap up with Satie needing a centre forward obviously we lost Dominic Calvert-Lewin I think the plan from Everton was we left Dom and we won Broja and we're happy if Chelsea turned on and go listen we're only going to decide the last couple of days and we're happy to wait because we won Broja because we've got Dom obviously we lost Dominic Calvert-Lewin last week before the season started so the need for the striker is just all eyes on it because obviously we've lost to Chelsea and a club like Everton really should have three centre forwards who are all capable of starting we've now got two and a sub we've got Rondon who's a sub having me and we're going to have to rely on him but are you worried or are you thinking that you've done really well so far with the limited amount of money that you've had like when I say limited I know that you still spent some money but it's all down paid but with the recruitment that's gone on so far are you more confident that you'll arrive at where you want I'm not worried I said that a few weeks ago before O'n Arna before Cody when we'd only signed Tarkov scheme we had that period of three or four weeks two or three weeks where we weren't really being linked with anyone we're worried when we get to the end of the transfer window and I'm looking thinking we've got Rondon for six months or we've got no centre midfielder we're going to have to play Gomez fast forward a few weeks later we're brought in O'n Arna Cody's coming McNeill's coming so it sounds mad because I don't I haven't trusted everything to get things right in the past because we haven't got things right in the past but I just seem to think there's a bit of a difference I don't think Kevin Tell was more than experienced enough to know that we cannot go the next two, three, four months and from that part we will not we will not even if it's somebody that we go he's alright, he wasn't what we were I'm confident in saying there will be a cycle through the door before the end of the window now obviously there's different options and it depends whether we want to go for somebody that is very similar to Dominic Calvertloon and I agree with what Petra before it'll be hard but we should be going with somebody that because then it's up to Dom to prove that he's better than Shedstrike they do exactly what I'm saying but and it's difficult because of where we are in the transfer window and financially and stuff but that's the type, we shouldn't be going for somebody that we know when Dom is back for it there's got no chance because he'll just be on the bench a little bit like we did with Rhondda last season to be honest but it's difficult because of money and stuff but I'm confident that will bring in a sense of us because we need to we absolutely need a forward and I finish with the question that I've asked on our lives and that this week if it was if you had a choice between garner and a forward or not having garner but getting a striker and another goal scorer and winger what would you choose? so garner and a sense of garner and a forward player can be a wide player or whatever or sacrifice garner or money I'm talking about and just get two forward players what would you do? I think I'd rather have two forward players to be honest because is the player that comes in with garner a goal scorer and forward well I don't know it could be everything could go for say and let's just use it and now a manual Dennis has been forest of a bit but just let's say it was a manual Dennis has got the ability to score goals and wide grassies through the middle and it was garner and who? garner and whoever there is difficult isn't it because we've got three forward players there so we had three of them that played the other day and we couldn't create a sausage roll in a bakery so it is tough I think it's difficult because you're then putting a lot of you're putting a lot of trust in on Anna to be able to step in and be it's just a quick question what would you do? if it was a goal scorer and forward with garner I'd probably go with that option but if it's just a winger that is capable of scoring a few goals I'd rather have the two we need a goal scorer at the end of the day and I know it's great to have somebody that can play across the three because city have got it but even city are now transitioning to just having Harland a centre forward Liverpool have transitioned from that three to where we've got a centre forward now but they'll all still score that's a risk in it because we've got forward players that are playing the wing that don't score so I think I'd rather have the out and out centre forward whoever that comes with whether it comes with Garner or not interesting there you go let us know what you think in the comment section below have you found evidence recruitment so far are you pleased? we know the centre forward we know it we know it we're all in the same boat I think we're all desperate for at least one because we know but are you being impressed so far and who do you want as the striker and as a third if you can be bothered filling this many comments in would you rather have two forwards or are you happy with Garner and one forward let us know in the comment section below give the video a thumbs up, subscribe if you haven't if you want more videos including daily live videos join toffy tv premier link is in the description and it's on the screen now big thanks to camp see you later