 So, Wayne Rooney has left Everton Football Club. He's going to play for DC United in MLS in America. Yeah, it is in America, but they also play in Canada. We've done a video about it. This is just a little supplementary video about how we can exploit this. If anyone watches or listens, they will be sick to death of me moaning about pre-seasons and commercial activity and all these things, but I think they're huge. One of the things I've banged on for a while and we've spoken about before is the chance to exploit America in areas that have familiar ground. Now, when Tim Howard moved to Colorado, guess what we should have done? We should have gone over to Colorado and played a friendly. It's something we should have absolutely done. We could have played Tim Howard's testimonial. We could have gone over and he could have played half of them and half of us. It would have been amazing. It would have been in front of his home fans. All the Everton USA people could have gone over it. It would have been absolutely an amazing event. We could have invited the likes of Landon Donovan, a few old Everton players that live in America, like Preche. Where's Preche? We don't know. Mojo, Paul Wright. Whoever's over there, invite them over. Take a few legends. Make a big thing of it. We didn't. We're idiots. When Landon Donovan went back to LA Galaxy, we should have sorted out a friendly with LA Galaxy over there again. It doesn't matter what you think of MLS or whatever, that would have been a big tie. When English clubs go over there, there's loads of buzz around at the same time. There's a lot of media attention because there's nothing else going on. So get over there and play them and launch a kit and all that. No, we never did that either. Tyn Cail, New York Red Bull. That should have been another one. When Rune's gone to DC United, they've just gone into a lovely new ground or they are going into a lovely new ground. That's where he makes his debut on the opening. That's why they want a new one. It's a big name to take them into this new Audi arena. They've been playing in this dump of a stadium for years. I think it was an old baseball stadium. It's an absolute dump. It's jokes about falling apart and everything. They've got a proper football ground now. One of the last teams in MLS to go and get a proper football ground. The club want to go forward. They've got a big name to get tickets to people's bums on seats. And we should be over there exploiting this, the name Wayne Rooney. Most people will think he's a man United, legend, but he's everton, homegrown everton. Two spells with the club and we should be all over that. We should be in there and we should be doing all the things that I've said. Taking the youth team, taking the ladies team, playing games, doing clinics. Taking mascots and whatever. Just flood the place for a week. Have a game, bring new place for them. It will be a massive event. That's what we should be doing. Definitely. We should be doing it next pre-season. Really, that should be arranged now. Playing their stadium in Washington. Go over there and try to put some markers down. We've got to look to those fields as well as a lot of wealthy people in America. A lot of big companies in America. There's fan bases that can be got in America. Personally, we spoke about it on a pre-season video about how Atlanta is a hotbed and should be targeted. You could do Washington and then stay down East and Side and do Atlanta as well. That's absolutely what we should be doing because we do need to spread our wings. That's the only way we're going to grow commercially as well put. Start putting fans, giving people the opportunity in those areas to go. I was talking to someone on Twitter the other day. He was like, I've been watching the World Cup. It's great. I want a Premier League to follow. I was like, follow everything. I was like, make sure you are. Then he messaged going on. I'm wearing a blue shirt today and I was like, it's right. There's all of those people who are hungry now looking at this going, what's going on? You know, like the World Cup. People are getting into football. We've done a lot of stuff we know out of the crowd. There's definitely a hunger there for soccer. It's our opportunity. Wayne Rooney, regardless, is still a huge name hence why they want him. Hence why they're paying him big money. Do you know the first thing I'd do? If I was Everton, I would take out a massive billboard somewhere in Washington, a really key location. I'd speak to DC about it and say, where do you put? They've got massive billboards. I'd say, where's a key location? I'd put a big billboard up and say something like, thanks Wayne. Good luck from your team Everton. And then just the details of Everton underneath, you know Everton and all that kind of thing. That's what I'd be doing straight away because that's what other clubs do. And that's easy marketing. Isn't it? It's easy marketing. They're things like Liverpool did when Gerard went to LA Galaxy. They got in there and targeted it. Keeps it fresh, doesn't it? Because you know what? People will get attacked by this. This is what Americans are like. They get caught up in things like you've just been saying in the World Cup. People in Washington will get caught up in this, the excitement of it. And know the first thing they'll go is, who's Wayne Rooney and where did he come from? And what happened is, they'll go, oh, Man United. And they'll all start getting Man United checked and saying, you know, we've got to get in there and educate people and go, no, come from Everton. And this is his story. And okay, yeah, he did all these things from Man United, but he's an Everton boy. And that's, for me, is what we need to be doing. Because people are looking. Some people who obviously want to don't like Rooney, Everton, they don't like Rooney. And want to just basically say he was rubbish last season and blah, blah, blah, blah, because they haven't got over the fact yet. You've got to look past that. From our perspective, from Evan's perspective. Look, we're already on the high train. On the train, yeah. On the black and white train. It is red and white. We've got the honk. I don't know, we've got the honk it to me. I don't know what it is. It's not about Wayne Rooney, really, from Evan. It's about putting Evan's name there. He's Wayne's. I hope he goes and has a great time there, really do. Ultimately he's going to come back to us as a coach. We need to be putting Evan's branding on it while it's there and just go, you know what? This is his club and he's come on back here. Yeah, Ben C United and he was fabulous for United in England. I was standing but Everton at his club and that's what happens. I'm way there and he's going to come back to us. It's about Evan's name so people go, oh, whatever. The other thing is, what do we do when we're linked with a play? What did you do? I know what I did when we were getting chosen onto YouTube. What's he done lately? Goals, goals. What's the best sheet this is goals. I said, no, we play for best sheet this. You were watching a cup game over Christmas and I put it on and straight away you're looking. Now I start going, oh, I'll be sheet this. I don't know why. We're looking to link up between best sheet this now and Evan and all the best sheet this fans are loving it. Loving Evan and Evan are doing Evan and taking. Evan have set up a take. Evan are saying, oh, we've had amazing share sales from this. That's what Evan should be doing and thinking, well, now can we wait at the other way and let's flip it the other way and say, well, those MLS fans will be like, well, let's, you know, Evan's share to blah, blah. We'll just just make people away. Just away. Big billboard next week. Big thanks to Wayne Rooney, blah, blah, blah. All the details. Big Evan crest. Yeah. EvanFC.com on the thing and all of that. And if you go and do well, I think there's one anyway, but do like a video. Thanks, Wayne, for this season. Do all his goals. That is easily accessible. I think we should, we should do that. Billboards off your TV. Yeah, yeah. We'll do it if you don't point on this way. But yeah, listen, I think it's a really, I think it's a really good idea because it is about what you want now more than anything. It's clever brand. It's clever ideas, Mark. And Chelsea done it. This is a little bit off thing, but Chelsea, did you see the thing that I send you the link with it? When Chelsea were losing, Samsung was the sponsor. And they sent out when and sent the packs of Premier League medal and everything to the 33, the biggest companies. And they got 33 inquiries. Got a bit more going and stuff like that. Cos it's different ways to attract people. It's not, this is weird. MLS is not like a proper, it's not like a proper league. It's not, you're never going to play them. No, so you don't have to, you don't have to, you don't have to disfranchise it, you know, from the player just because he's going. You can still have a connection. You can still have him, you know, doing things for, as a club, almost as a club and back, not a proper club and back, but an ambassador for the club while he's there. You know, and this is what I'm saying, make sure that people know the way the connection is. And the other thing about it is as well, Washington, Washington is by, you know, you've got New York, not too far away. You've got Philly, not too far away. You've got Boston, not too far away. You know, those Everton USA fans can go down and watch them and make this known. It's a hub so that if Everton do go over there, we can bring all those fans from that north east side of America down to watch it. In terms of for us to get over there, it's only five or six hours on a plane, it's not too far away. You know that we can go over and interview. You know we can, because you get access over there. But yeah, so listen, I agree with you, it's a really good idea. I think it's about we have got to think outside the box and we've got to try and grab everyone we can to help build the club up. It develops, spend money, Everton and spread the name. We want to grow. We can't stay intrinsic and expect to compete higher up. We can't, so you know, we've got to use everything. I mean, the club have done well with P&R. I think Keil thing is ongoing now. So I think Tim will be being involved at some stage as well. So let's do Wayne over in America. Use him well, especially if he's coming back to the club as a coach. The link's there later, right? It's like we're loaning in there for probably getting him back so we use him. The other thing that should happen is Everton TV or whatever should be out there in about eight weeks. Do how you're settling in, you know, what about this, what's it like? Don't just say, you're going to forget about him. Use him as a tool. And again, as I say, Liverpool did the thing with Gerard. You know, he was going over there and he was coming back as a coach. And there was always that connection. And it was always that, you know, if we've got, we've got, honestly, do it, Everton, just do it, sort it out. We haven't got many people who will make big news and ask what. We haven't, you know, tossing it in Turkey and we've got Rooney who's worldwide news because obviously because of his United Connections as well and because of England that he's on all of FIFA games for years. He's still a big name. Use it while it's still a big name. Not when he's 34. Use it now. Do it, Everton. Get it sorted. Keep the connection. Let's build and grow. Nail us down as DC's team, that area. And it's about us not really about when. It's about exploiting something and building from it. Do it, Everton. Thanks for watching. We'll see you later.