 Welcome to Toffy TV, I am joined by Andy and Everton have a Deadline bass sign and it's Alex O'Wobee, not quite Wilfred Taha, but who cares. Listen, we probably most of us wanted Taha but the numbers were too high. Alex O'Wobee, Everton approached Arsenal with an initial bit of £30 million. They came out that of Everton but to go a bit higher they probably get him. It's exactly what Everton did. Andy, you're happy? Yes, I'm over the moon. I've always liked Alex O'Wobee. As I say, people and people ask me who's the most underrated player. I've always said Alex O'Wobee. People have got a false impression about him that he's not a very good footballer, very creative, very good dribler, very good passer. I know that goes to his game as he gets older. Now, we'll get into the data in a minute, but he's a very impressive player as well. What he adds that I've always said, we like his creativity, you talk about someone who's got six assists last season, who created almost the same number of big chances of guilty tickets and he doesn't take free kicks or corners. It's a really good sign. I know we didn't get Wilfred Taha and I know O'Wobee doesn't necessarily equal top four or whatever, but it's a really solid sign and a smart sign and I need to make more smart signs. I mean, overall, a window, I think I've done decent business. I think we've done very good business actually. I think the centre back thing is obviously a book babe with everybody and we're not going to sit here and say any difference. We've all loved Kate's room. We've all liked a centre back who couldn't have got a room and had similar attributes, but obviously David Luisa's move from Chelsea to Arsenal scuppered for Kyle Tamori coming in on loan. He wouldn't have been experienced, but I had good attributes in terms of pace. He fits what we need to do. But it is what it is. Everything else I would say was really good business by Everton. Obviously there's potentials with John Philippe Baman and stuff like that. We'll have to see how he goes. But Alex O'Wobee is a sign in who I believe if there's a hard stuff wouldn't have say Everton through that initial bidding and he come out and he went that's the end of it. It's too dear. We don't want to go higher. It went quiet for a few days and then we went for Alex O'Wobee. I think it would have been received totally differently than the way it's been received. It does almost feel like a runner-up prize for people when I don't think it should be looked at that. He was on Everton's hit list all summer. O'Wobee has players who fit the right age bracket 20-26. Who Everton could potentially get. Obviously Arsenal got Nicholas Pepe and that kind of rendered O'Wobee down the pech in order if you like. So I think it is a good sign. A lot of people might not agree, but the best thing to do is look at how he does. Let's watch him every week. Arsenal fans, as I said today and other two other people, Arsenal fans have seen O'Wobee from when he came in to the sides to now. They look at all his flaws all the time. Unfortunately young players, you notice the flaws a lot when they first come in the team. We did it with Ross Barkley. We did it with Tom Davis now. I think when they moved team you look at we mentioned Alex Oxlade Chamber when he moved to Liverpool. They love Oxlade Chamber. Arsenal fans said he wasn't a good player at all. Maybe we just needed a change of scenery. Maybe we just needed a different coach to work with them. O'Wobee is 23 years old and he's putting up seasons that are better than Zahar, which we'll get to at the same age. So I'm not saying he's going to be better than Zahar. I'm not saying he's the same player as Zahar, but it's a good sign. We've made a good sign. I think that Everton should be happy about that, that Marcel Brands is picking players out. Again, the fee is lower than expected again. He must have been able to pay for O'Wobee and all the fees he's saved. We've only spent about £33 million, £34 million net this week. We've improved the squad. I'm happy. I look at it and obviously people like Andy Ong Y Cwri may still go out of the club, but he will probably go out of the door. That will take you back to £20 million and whatever. I think people should be encouraged that Everton was speaking to Crystal Palace two and a half hours before the window. Should be trying to get them down a bit and probably if Palace, I think the United Selom wouldn't have been in there. I think Everton and Palace would have dealt on about £60 million and I think Everton would have paid that. I'm sure it's on what pause we did with the Hammers-Rozig, hasn't sold him for £3 million and put Bones in another place for £60 million just to get the card, but obviously they were probably reals. But yeah, agreed. We were trying to get them. It's not like O'Wobee was a second prize because I just stayed with Ornstein's judge yesterday. Do you want to both? Do you want to both? Wait until the end of the window again, smartly buy brands. The price comes down. Do you think in terms of them wanting both then, just very quickly? We went for Abdelhaid Decore, and obviously £37 million bid got knocked back. Do you think they're looking at O'Wobee as well and thinking, well, he can play that role as well? Have you watched the Afcon? He played centrally for Nigella, then to the semi-final. He played central, wide left, wide right. It's got to get good play. The oxlates are gambling. The point is one that I've made myself and thought about. I remember Arsenal fans putting up videos of them, mis-kicking the ball and falling out. And they were like, we'll drive on there, and he's garbage, and he's this, and he's that. And I'll be honest, at the time I was thinking, what a Liverpool paying £40 million to him. He can't even get in the Arsenal team. He's been brilliant for Liverpool. But obviously he's got the injury in that setting back. Up until that, they absolutely loved them and he was working really well for Klopp's show. That's given me a chance. I know people have got a lot of preconceived ideas. Arsenal fans, as you say, will say he's not a good player, but might need you to judge him yourself. I just think, let them get it. Do you know that Arsenal brands would sign a player who's bad? He wouldn't. Let them get it, trust the manager, trust the director of football. Let them get it and let's see what we can work with. Let's have a look at some of his stats, because obviously people think about Alex O'Wobee. When you had this conversation a couple of days ago about O'Wobee, and I was like, Gary, you know, he's not going to call him. You would give me a bit more data and I was like, I don't know what you're saying. And remember he played a good person a few years ago when Martinus was dead. And he absolutely destroyed us. He struck me in bed, we're on Arsenal fans TV. After him, we were like, that kid is brilliant, O'Wobee. He couldn't live for him. I looked at some of his stuff from last season, some of the stuff in the season before. And he's a real talent, all right. He's frustrating. There'll be times when you own your head in your hands, but you like that bit most. He plays it at his age. Unless the top bracket. So let's have a look anyway what we're getting with O'Wobee. So you talk us through this way. You talk us through. So in the left-hand corner, a lot of people were saying, you know, about Sahar. This is what Sahar, same age, Sahar. This is 2015-16, which is four years ago. This is what he put the numbers he put up at that time compared to it. So you can see Sahar at that age, even though he's only scored two goals, one assist, and you look at three goals. So he's slightly maybe ahead of ways of how it is. O'Wobee plays in a different team, so to add context, it's a bit different. You look, he's a better passing ability. At this age now, O'Wobee is a bit further ahead of ways of how it is. Now that's no guarantee that he's going to end up as best at Sahar, the same as Sahar. We're buying a player who, at 23, is a good player. One of the times he hits his prime could be a fairly good player, so that's a plus. This is from Michael Caley. There's a lot of data on Twitter. Passes into the penalty area. So this is passes that are played into the penalty area for 90 minutes. This includes open play passes. There's no crosses included. As you can see, there's lean on. So you can see there's lean on. Messi, Neymar, David David-Silver, and then albeit in sixth position there is Alex O'Wobee. Better than Sahar. More passes per 90 into the penalty area. No, the better footballer didn't have that, just put that there now. No, it's not. What we're trying to say is that Alex O'Wobee is always looking to pick people out in the box through passes, which is what we don't have a lot of time, a lot of time. It's shifted wide and crossed in the box. This gives us a different option, so the EPA also will help with this. Passing into the box, stretching teams, picking out holes. This is what he's been able to do. I think you've put the same graphical twice, but we'll move on. I haven't, quite clearly. Off camera. Shall we go to the next one? So this is open play contributions. So this is the combination of XG, which is obviously expected goals. I know people don't love that and expect it assists. So XG is predicated on the chance of scoring a goal based on 300,000 shots that they've examined. XA is based on passes they've examined that lead to goals. And again, as you can see, a pair of 90 minutes, the best people at the time this was done are Alex O'Wobee isn't there, better than Bernardo Silver, better than Tally Alley, better than Cillin McGill and Gavitch's Savitude, Manchester United were looking to play 75 million before. I assume it won't. Now, I'm not saying he's better than any of these players, but what I'm trying to say is he really adds that quality creativity that we've lacked at times. He's sick, he just offers something different. He wants more of the ball than Gavitch at times as well. Now, hopefully, he gets to the point where he's going to score 10 goals a season. That's what Marcus Silver needs to help him with. But he's even shot stats. The average is just under two shots a game, which is two shots is key when you're a winger or a striker. And it's 39%. Get that up to 45%. Get more shots and you'll score more goals. I mean, that's a higher shot rate than Dominic Aldo. It is, exactly. You've been a striker neater up, isn't it? That's what that's all about. Ashwin Raman. Ashwin's great as well. He's fantastic. He does a lot of great stuff with stats as well. So give Ashwin a follow on Twitter, because you get more of this data. But there's some good players up there, Lucas Acampos, who, of course, we were linked with, and he's moved to Seville, scored the penalty. He got to us the other week. Leon Garetir is a very, very good player. Fornals, he's just gone to Westampton. So there's good players up there. Yeah, these are all young players as well. I think this is under 23 or 25. So it just shows that he is a fairly creative. He's putting chances and passes into the right areas, which is key. If you want your Charlesons, you'll be really good for Guilfee's signature as well, because as I've said before, lovely vision when it comes to passing the ball across the box, cup-back, whatever. So he's going to really help us get goals. And I think in the late-in games, if he comes on or full games, he's going to unlock defences for us. Matt Sheeter, there's a lot of stuff on Twitter. He put the stats up before that. Alex O'Wobee is running stats a better than a lot of our players. He created more chances than any of our players last season. Paying 90. And in Arsenal, there was only a couple of Arsenal players, he created more chances than Alex O'Wobee last season. So obviously, data is great for some stuff. It's great for demonstrating things that maybe people haven't seen beyond just an eye test. Yeah, it's 50% of the fit. I say it's 50% because I use both. I don't need to look at players because obviously you can mislead because it depends on the measure and things and all like that. But on the eye test, people are saying he's slow, he's not slow, he's quick, strong, he's a smart football player. And again, other staff for you, Guilfee 6 on the set, 11 big chances created. And he was 10, he's played much less minutes. So we're adding that creativity that we're lacking. What was Guilfee over across 3,000? 3,000 minutes and it was just over 1,700. So yeah, we're getting a player who's going to add creativity. So hopefully it was Charleston, Keen, Guilfee, Bernard, whoever he plays with, going to benefit from these passes. Yeah, you know what? I'm at the stage, I don't know whether you are, but I'm at the stage with the manager and with the director of football where I'm like, listen, you think he's going to benefit us? I'm good with it. I am good with it. Let's go with it and let's see because we're sitting here and obviously Blues, they were watching it. Everyone's got their own opinions, right? Of course. And everyone will look at a player and go I'd rather have him. That's fine. That is absolutely fine. But we aren't sitting in the office with Marcel Brands and Marco Silva while they've got their vision of Everton Football Club and what they want to do with it. And they could look at him and go, yeah, but he, all of that data, he does this, but I'm going to play him off the right one. When we're trying to get a team on the counterattack away from home, he's going to play where Guilfee Sigarton are playing. You mix it all up and I think we've seen this, we've done the Deadline Day live show and we've done other stuff and people are like, who's you going to replace when I start on 11 then? It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. The big deal for Everton, I think is trying to create that position where you've got 15, 16, 17 where you're going, any of them could play really. I want to change it anyway. You look at, as I said on the live show, if anyone missed it, Man City always changed their team when they were spending on the play. Now, they've obviously got much better players than ever, but you need to get into the position where no one's safe. A Liverpool player, essentially the same nine or ten players every single week, but we want to be in the position where if, say, we get an injury, we can step in Bernard or if Guilfee Sigarton doesn't play well for six games, it's not that we have to play in front of the ten games on the run. We can bring a will be in there, put Bernard in the middle. It just makes us a better side. It raises the level of competition and it will create more consistency as well because you don't want complacency of being in the team. That's why you signed Lossall. Lossall never beat out Pickford, but he's going to be trying his best to get those cup games off Pickford. So he's pushed them in training. He's a Premier League level goal. He showed it last season. He made a couple of mistakes. I really like the city. He's signing for that as well. It really, really helps. We've got someone to push Coleman now as well because you look at people like Kevin Campbell who's always banging on about them. He says in Kevin Campbell let Marco Silva get a grip of him and develop him. He's got loads of talent and another fast player. You've seen other people going... He wants to stay. I've seen fans of other clubs saying that's a good sign, a smart sign. Some Arsenal fans laughing. But then other ones are like we're losing a really good player. They didn't even like... Arsenal fans didn't like Aaron Rams. They just didn't like him. Arsenal fans are quite fickle about who they like. I wouldn't take another club's fans opinion on how good players are all the time. Sometimes it changes the scene. You can help. I would be really late when the news came through. Really happy when it came through. I was delighted. I'm not that more delighted. This is the type of sign that shows vision. Basically what I call is an inefficiency in the transfer market. In the fact that we're picking off players that are underappreciated by other clubs for good prices. Which is smart like Dean, Lucas Dean. Barcelona doesn't suit his style of play. You plucked him one of the best lifebacks in the Premiership now. Premiership and I hope people hate that. I grew up with that. It's the same with Anthony Gomez. He's terrible. He's the worst player that's ever played for us. You see other Barcelona fans going for the first year he was very good. The second year he wasn't very good. That's the way it is. You have to go take everyone with it. How you find them and get behind the whole thing. See how we go on this one. Alexio Wobby might be fabulous. He might be alright. We'll only know at the end of the season. It's a good age. Right parameters. The initial dampe, the initial fee is 28 million. It's a hard. I think they've ended up asking for 80 million. That's why I haven't walked away today. It's a ridiculous amount of money. Realistically, if you'd have said to you on the first of June, would you pay 80 million if it's hard enough? We want milk and we want neres. It all became about Sahar in the last week. This is not like either or. This is a good sign. That's separated from the Sahar. I think we all fell into the Sahar hype train. Raised expectations. Let us know what you think in the comments section below. You're happy with Alexio Wobby and you're underwhelmed. You're ready to give my chance. Let's see what he's got. Forget Sahar. It didn't happen. So just forget about it. Let us know what you think about Alexio Wobby. If you haven't subscribed to the channel, please do so. It takes a sec. If you want more videos, make sure you get over and join us on Patreon. Before you go, give the video a thumbs up. Thanks very much to Andy for all his info there. See you later.