 Welcome to Toffy TV, there is a lot of speculation at the moment about Gabrielle leaving Leale, but where will he go? He's been linked with Everton since February, he's been linked with Napoli, he's been linked with Manchester United, he's been linked with Arsenal, but where is he going to go? We are due a decision in the next two weeks apparently. As this was a play we thought we had nailed down and due to Covid-19 we had to sort of not step away from the deal but be creative, renegotiate and unfortunately it's left us in this position. You just sat there, it's a deal that we were made aware of in February wasn't it? There was talk of the medical taking place and I haven't quite pleased with the way it had gone. It obviously was interested in coming, great personal terms and then like you say Covid hit and it scuppered the original deal. I think the problem being with fans not being in stadiums and everything else is that it cut Everton's cash flow down, therefore they needed to be creative with and it also cut a lot of players valuations down as well, so a deal that we agreed that was closer to 30 million euros, whenever it looked at it again maybe felt that it was only 20 million euros in what we're faced with now. So went back to the negotiating table and it's been from there really and the timeline, we've got a timeline of events of what's gone on since then. I think it was just because I know a lot of people out there are annoyed I think at Everton for why we haven't got this shown up but I think in terms of the way football works and monetary side of football I think it was important that we stepped away from that deal just because we didn't actually know, we didn't know when football was coming back, we didn't know how it was coming back, we didn't know how the finances were going to be sorted, a lot of that's been sorted out. Now even this week the Premier League money has made the decision on the Premier League money now so the club will know where there's money coming from but we still have the fact of we don't know when fans are coming into the ground. We do know when the Premier League starts of course, September 12th isn't it so, those things will have a lot of uncertainties and if you can't be saying the things, you can't be saying the money coming in and there's a deal on the table for 30 million, 30 million euros, whatever it was then I think it makes financial sense especially when you are asking players to take the third wages and there's risk, there was a risk, it didn't happen but there was a risk of failure and staff as well. I think you've got to put all that together and understand it's not viable to just go forward with a valuation that was created before this has happened. Listen, we're talking about this on the day that the UK has gone into recession because of Covid so money's a real thing in football, it's not just this thing, I know that times it feels like these figures are just picked up and plucked out and thrown around and it doesn't matter and he can have this and he can have that and his age and he can have whatever. There's real stakes in this and this is what, as ever times we've found in the last two or three years, we are hampered because of all the money we've spent. Well that's the key thing in all of this, there is everything you've said right and there's a wider global issue with finances and we've seen players valuations drop and drop because of all the stuff you've just said. But if you just ignore that for a minute and just take it back to the actual football club and the finances it's got and the problems it's got to solve this summer, if Everton were a centre back away from being happy with their team and going you know what the priority is a centre back then I'd have expected Everton to pay kind of what Leo wants almost just to get it done. But if your pot of money shrunk and you're trying to plug five, four and five positions and you're still, like you just said, only this week we found out that the money that the club thought they were losing, they're not going to lose but it's going to be spread over a couple of years so it won't be as bad as it was maybe seven days ago. It still doesn't mean that there's a big pot of money there so the club have had to try to work at the deal, the fact that they're still at the table tells you that they've come up with a deal like Leo. Okay they're not made up with because it would have been done but they're not turned the noses up at it. I mean if you look at the time you know we've had the original interest in February, the medical, we had a report in April saying that Everton had won the race then following on from that there was then reports that Napoli had had a bid accepted and he was going to Napoli and then all of a sudden it was Manchester United National and their bids had been accepted and then we've had a national last week with a favourite and it was done but then there's been two big stories this week that have almost changed it again a little bit. The independence have come out and said that Everton's still there but Napoli won them but they would have to sell Cullibali before they could bring him in and they've had no bid for Cullibali and Arsenal and United haven't made a bid, that's according to the independent this week, having told us last week he was about to sign for Arsenal. But then one I guess which is even more, throws even more light on it, is this financial fair play, Leo have had to sign with Ricky Rayford, so that's come out saying just talking about Everton being working on a £30m deal whatever. It says Leo are hoping to find a buyer to meet their valuation and the clubs need to make as much profit as possible, the bottom for £1.5m but the UEFA clubs finance a control body investigatory. Chamber has ruled Leo have been in breach of FFP regulations and have confirmed the club have reached an agreement with the government body to cover the next four seasons. Leo must not post losses of more than £20m at the end of 2021 and then £10m a year after to be fully compliant and then no more than £30m over a three-year period. So basically Leo have got to make as much money off this deal as he possibly can. Yeah and they've already shoulder strike at Napoli. Arsenal has gone out and they're bringing players in, of course. So this represents, I suppose they are last big out of the summer although there is talk of the right back as well isn't there Leo? Yeah yeah. But this is what, so it sounds like Leo are trying to inflate the price as much as possible and he's trying to bring people to the table as much as possible. It's funny hearing last week brands saying that we're sick of leaks and I don't know whether he was alluding to this as well. But he wants to get business done early and it can't be done if the club you're trying to buy off keep pushing stories, that's what it seems like anyway. We've got no actual proof of that but we know how it works. We've seen this with Barcelona two years ago when we were trying to bring in yeti Mina and Barcelona were doing exactly the same thing. They were pushing stories, he's gone to Manchester United, he's gone to Manchester United, him and Andre Gomez are going to Manchester United as part of a swap deal and they kept on pushing it. Mina said that I've been coming to Everton since the World Cup, forget all that other noise, that was just Barcelona and it didn't get done till the last day and we don't want that to happen. But you're right what you said because we've already seen as well in the Huyberg deal where Huyberg made a very, he made it known to Everton, his preference for space and he made it known that they wanted him. And Everton walked away, they walked away from the deal, they didn't keep pushing and pushing and pushing yet with this we know that offer is still on the table. So therefore as much as people can keep throwing these names on Barcelona and everyone else just to scare fans more than they else I think rather than football clubs, football clubs has to hold the nerve, I think muscle brands has to hold this nerve. If it doesn't happen it doesn't happen but that's what it would seem like at the moment anyway. It just looks like, well especially with the story from the independence as well saying Arsenal haven't made a bit for them, you know the story is that Arsenal have sack 55 people this week but then they bring them williannes. And they're talking about to get another six players and they've got this. So it doesn't, none of it almost adds up but then when you read Jerry's going to Arsenal to grade you like Lizzie but then I guess the longer it goes on. If these stories do look like Lill just trying to bump his price up, which they're entitled to do but he's under contract they're trying to get as much for them especially if they're trying to work within that FFP. I mean just I guess as we're finishing do you attach any blame to Everton for not paying more at this stage or do you think Everton are right going, that's our valuation of them and we have got to solve three or four other things. We can't just go oh let's get it done because we've done that with other deals. No, no because I think what you said before was correct. I think what you said before about having other players to buy. We have got other players to buy. We've got sentiment feel to definitely buy. You know whoever that is, you know whether it be an Allen, a Decore, a Singari, whatever you know what I mean. Whoever that player is and we've done a video on that as well. We need to check that out. That's got to be our number one priority. It's got to be and this is a deal that we want done and who knows if we can get Gabrielle Dunham, whether that will knock on effect for one of the centre backs. Whether it be Michael Keane would be the most obvious one because of his contract situation and this will be the perfect time to sell them let's be honest. Having a very good end of season or mean or whatever. That might be a case of what we pay for Gabrielle could be brought straight back into the club for whoever we sell. If we sell one of the centre backs in Kenny, I don't know. So I think for us I think we sit here almost like well we want them. We were in for them. It would almost seem like we had lost out on a player that we had and that feels like a lot of time with Everton. I didn't even want Huybeg but I want Huybeg. I don't want anyone else to have them. I don't really want them but I don't want anyone else to have them. I feel like that about a lot of times we go in for and I think but with this one I think he's definitely a player that would make us better definitely. I think he'd make the whole team better because he's left footed and he's got pace and I think that allows midfield to play higher and it's not always reliant then to drop back because if you know you've got a centre back that if the ball goes over the top can catch chickens then you feel can take those chances and get a little bit higher off. I'd love to see the deal done but if it doesn't get done we've been very clear on why the reasons are I think. Yeah it's right. Sometimes you do just feel like just pay the money and get it over the line but like you said Marcel Brand has been here before and he's got a valuation and it's evident of being burnt but we're suffering by paying over the other players. Definitely. We'll just have to see what happens but it's one that I think every Aston fan as well and things like that just want it done and dust it whichever way it be. It's so that it can counter fruition and you can move on if you don't get them. Let us know your thoughts in the comments anyway. Is this a player desperate for us to get in or would you like us to just walk away from this deal now? Do you think we will get them as well or do you think you'll end up a Arsenal, Napoli, Manchester United, whoever else is on the list this week? Let us know your thoughts on this in the comments. Make sure to give this video a like, subscribe if you haven't already and if you want more great videos join us over on Patreon. The link is in the description. 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