 Welcome to Toffy TV, we are continuing our season review, we have looked at the new signings, we have looked at the defence and now we'll be looking at the midfield, see who pulled their weight and who did not, it was a very problematic area, wasn't it the midfield last season, season just gone. Obviously new signings involved but that was where we really suffered I think in finding that balance to make this team work. The balance we never seemed to get it right did we? The thumbnail really should have John Felly Cobamaron's shouldn't it as well in an ideal world where we would have been able to have that balance I think. If only, if only. But yeah it was an area we didn't quite get right. There was a definite uptane from last season, it feels weird now from the season before when we knew got a last summer that we needed a couple of reinforcements in there and Alan and the core I came in and when we had them on the pitch together there was a definite uptane in form and we looked much better but injury problems meant that he didn't play the majority of the team. I think we never quite got the balance right. Well also we never quite got the balance right because obviously it was the core I and Alan in there and we never quite found what worked with them. We started the season with Andre Gomez and on the first couple of games he looked good but then he started dropping off and we never really got to grips with who was going to be in there or what was going to be the set up once the set up change was coming on the team. It started to just fall apart bit by bit and it never sort of got put back together again and that I think that was a major problem knowing what the make up of the midfield was and it led to as I said this midfield being really unbalanced not really knowing whether it should defend, whether it should attack, who should defend, who should attack and it just led to problems all season and players being swapped in and out far too numerous times for any kind of relationship to work for whether it be two in there, three in there or whatever so it was a really problematic season I think for the midfield. That is still our biggest conundrum? Yeah I agree. Like I said there was definitely nothing because better players come in than what we've had previously but you're right there was no real chemistry of a three but obviously injuries broke that up as well because it meant we didn't have two lads who were trying to yell together. You know Alan went out the team in December and didn't get back, didn't come back till March, signed the Corry went out the team in March and only come back for the last couple of games so those two had just a little bit less than half a season together. But yet the third, the third you know cogging that midfield wheel if you like was and we never quite got that right we didn't know whether it was Andre Gomez, whether it was Guilfee Sigurdson. You know we tried Tom Davis in there albeit not too often with those two so we never quite got it, Delf was never fit, Gabamon wasn't fit so we were like trying to piece things around you know other times we tried Hamers in there but he doesn't play more than a couple of games on the run. So it has been an area and I think for Evan to move forward there has to be another one in there who's energetic like the Corry and then we have to have someone on the bench and hopefully and we said that a million times hopefully that would be Gabamon would get fit and be able to play majority of the game. Just certainly being an option to swap one of them in and out cos the drop off like with other areas of the team once the first 11, the best 11 isn't fit, people coming in are totally out of the different profile and what's gone out or they're just not up to it and I think we find that with the midfield and yet when you look at all the best teams they normally have a strong solid midfield and we haven't been able to do that. Yeah I think one of the things that annoyed me or just it was just yeah like you just said the make of the midfield was changing all the time so we were swapping plays in and out and it was sometimes based on who was playing centre back sometimes who was playing on the right you know if we were having our number 10 if it was going to be Hamers or Zegas playing in the number 10. And it's like we've got to get to a point where like you just said there we have three midfielders who are interchangeable you know and build off the basis that you're going to play based on what your make up of your midfield is and that has to happen next season cos if it doesn't then we're just going to continue moving round the pieces round the pitch because you know there's little things like Tom Davies would never play if Michael Keane played. There's little things like that it's like why like you know what I mean and I find it. I think it's the case of with the midfield that those two were sad no one else really like demands their place you know what I mean it's like the manager could look in it and just go that's what I've got to choose you know what I mean if we had like another. I think when you the best teams you kind of know who's playing most weeks so we have that in other areas like respond the defence when we talked about Ben Godfrey coming in and all of a sudden the manager was kind of like I actually need to play in most weeks. Alan and the core I said yeah no no no no one really no one nailed down a place and I think that's definitely the big problem you know players players are plenty of chances. You know Tom Davies we were going to talk about in a moment Tom Davies said like played a lot of games and then you'd be left out and then people would scratch their heads why he was being left out. So there was little things like that as well and then Andre Gomez are playing people like why is he playing and the next game he'd be still on the team and you're thinking why is he still playing he didn't do anything in the last game. And then you'd be at games where you'd have Andre Gomez and Sigarton and sometimes have Rodriguez and the midfield would just be abysmal and we'd say to ourselves that can't happen again and it happened like a game after it and be like I don't I mean I understand the manager's got limited options but at times I just thought that the midfield could have been left alone he never he was never quite sure. And that's obviously like you've just said down to the down to the plays. I think he was desperate funny enough. I think he was desperate as I get going in there towards the end of the season and just see whether that worked having that extra set of legs and having someone who was mobile someone who can carry the ball as well would work but obviously again he picked up another injury and we never got to see him because that would be an ideal having him for the last six or seven games and just seeing how he worked out. Just a preparation for next season. Just now we kind of don't think we can gamble on him. Not that. And I know a lot of people don't think he'll ever play for ever and I don't quite subscribe to that but I wouldn't be comfortable going at ease the other midfielder into them because he picks up another injury and you back to where we were and it hasn't worked so that's been the problem. And some of that you've said it many times. Some of our players I think you just have to accept that good enough. No matter how many they come in and have the odd good game they're not good enough for what we want to do. Otherwise we will just be to quote you again the circle of shape on it with every season because every season at the moment we will get into it now but every season at the moment just rolls into the next one and I've read articles today and it's like another season. Everything seems to have an expensive collection of players that don't actually do anything. The club never goes anywhere. It's mid table Chris Sutton said and listen what Sutton said is normally the type of thing that offends me. That makes me want to go sliding with a two-footed challenge in the back of his legs but he's right. Everything is just a boring mid table club. Essentially I just have to back at that. I remember Farad Meshiri saying in an age year one year following on from some kind of dribble that Bill Cairnwight had come out with was they didn't want Everton to be a museum but Everton had a museum because they buy old stuff, artefacts, pay a lot of money for them. All they do is stay in one place while people come to watch them. That's a museum and that's our team so we have to change that because there's just players in, out, in, out of our team and they're not good enough and we need players who can play every single week. It's just overstuffed rubbish. Let's have a little look at the midfield. Let's start with Tom Davies. Tom played 30 games, started 20. One assist, which is not good enough. Passacres 81%, interceptions 1.4, tackles 1.2, successful jibbles 75%. Again, one assist, no goals. That's going to be a common theme because it's abysmal. Tom obviously never started the season and then got his opportunity when Alan got injured and I thought he did okay. I think he did okay. I think he come in, he sat in front of that back four and he really offered a shield in front of it and I think that's his role. I think in the squad now is someone who can come in and do that job. Obviously he's not a starter and the manager's made it known a lot of times what he thinks of Tom. He really likes him, but he knows he's limited and I think as long as you look at Tom Davies like that, there's definitely something in there where he can offer that to the squad. Now, if he wants more than that, he's going to have to leave Everton because as much as I like Tom, I still think that's all he ever will be for Everton. So it will be a case of yes, he'll probably get better at that position, but that position will own the only position he'll ever play and it's on the behest of Carlo Ancelotti at the moment. If you've got another manager, he might just go, no, I'm not interested. So I think he was quite consistent. He's still got mistakes in him. We've seen that. His biggest issue is he dwells on the ball too much. He's not the only one because movement isn't a big thing. I thought as a footballer, I do think he moved on this season. I think he moved on as a player. I think he nailed down that sixth position, his position as he goes forward. I like the way he receives the ball. I like the way he's always on an angle. Can he do more than that? Probably not. There's no lung based on runs forward any more. He's safe for the reason of he knows that's the best part of his game is receiving the ball up back forward and then moving it. And he does that quite well, as I said. I think he'll only ever be a squad player for Everton. Maybe, maybe. I think he has improved this year definitely. I think he looks good in that number six role. But again, for me, I think you'd say a better Tom Davis if you had another mobile in the field with him on the court. I think sometimes he's been in the midfield with Anthony Gomez and Guilffy and Alan and none of them are runners. Alan will go pressing and he'll do the two. Guilffy wants to pick it up in pockets outside the penalty area. Gomez just wants to receive it and help it on. The not competitors, where I think he is quite competitive. He'll throw a trachelin. I think he has, when he's been allowed to do the role, he's been quite good at it. Whether he gets better and makes it his own becomes a true captain of Everton or a face team player of Everton. It's up to him. It's up to him. Only he can do this. 23 into your life played 150 games for Everton. Really good squad player. Really good attitude on him. But does have mistakes in him. The fourth goal against Man City. I think he's got that time on the ball on the edge of your own box. You can't do it. Got to get the mistakes out of his game. And he has done a lot this season but that to me on Sunday still shows there's a weakness there that he's got to sharpen up on. You haven't got time in the Premier League to go and be around the pitch. But I do think the key to getting more out of him is to have more legs with him so that he isn't exposed. I don't know. Could he become a real starter for Everton? It's on him, like I said before. But one assist and no goals doesn't help. Got to get yourself in and around the penalty area. He's had a couple of opportunities this season to score goals and having quite sucked them. Again, it's the make-up of the team as well. Is he going to go into the penalty area? We've seen last year in the Derby, at the inside of the post late on, he could have been the Derby winner. There's all of those things that have gone on with him. He's proved he has got a goal in him every now and again. We all still remember the Manchester City goal which is probably a bit of a hindrance to him because people expected that regularly off him. I think there's improvement to be made but I still don't get when people say he's not good enough or he's a champion to your player role. I don't subscribe to that but I do accept that he needs better or more mobile players with him to get the best out of him because he can't go box to box. He's got the energy and the competitiveness. It's the speed of him. You get caught out and it is until he takes those silly mistakes out of his game, people will always point the finger at him. People try to give the ball away a lot. Passing at 81% over the season is quite good but he will accept that he does have mistakes in him and sometimes he gives the ball away in dangerous areas. You've got to learn that. I think he's got to get as a player in that position. He's got to just when he receives the ball at times he's got to be playing the first time and it's got to be right. I also feel like he's another player that we say this about a few players in our team is that if you put other players around them. I do think we have to come to a point where we have to have a team of players who don't need other players around them because otherwise it does feel like a specific position for that position. I don't think you're playing an eight. No, no, no. It's interesting that, like you just said, the Manchester City goal, picking the ball up and running with it and that's not a feature of his game anymore. It's interesting that it's like you wonder as a kid who, you know, you've seen him in the under 23s picking the ball up and running with it. He doesn't have any of those things anymore. It's quite disturbing that I feel as a footballer playing for a club like Everton that's been kicked out of here essentially. I find that very worrying as a football club. Maybe it's something where people have said, you know, if you keep it safe, if there's a position there for you. I mean, at least he's got a position now. That's a big, big thing. I was a time when he didn't and he was getting moved around. I do feel like what he does sitting in front of the back four gets the best out of his attributes but he has to work on that because if you're that player you can't afford to lose that ball because in fact if you're decisive in that role you can break the press of good opposition teams. Key players, a player. You become a real key player for you. It does for England. It does for the 21s and there's been brilliance at it so. I thought he's had a decent season but there is room for improvement. Let's move on, Gilffy Sigarton. Strange season. I mean 44 games, 31 starters. We've been involved in a hell of a lot of games. A goal 7-6, that's good. That's good on the face of it. You know, if you're looking for a midfielder who's just hit the 30s, they're good numbers. They are good numbers. Passach was 85%. Successful was 54%. Key pass was 1.2. I mean, those numbers are not bad. But on the flip side, your eyes don't lie and games do pass Gilffy Sigarton by. Now I know he plays in the role he plays. It would be hard for a lot of plays in that role playing for Everton. Sometimes he's not in the game because the ball simply doesn't get near him. He's a difficult one because he's not actually a good dribble. He's not actually a great passer. He's not someone who always can see the pass through the eye of the needle, although he does have that in his game. Set pieces are good, except when they're getting shot directly at goal. So he's an enigma, isn't he? Gilffy Sigarton. He really is an enigma because when you slow the game down, you actually see the talent he's got as a footballer. He's a very talented footballer. But in the highly bail of the Premier League, it just sort of gets lost. It does, doesn't it? It gets lost in the... because he's not quite at the level of a top playmaker who seemed to have all the time in the world. He creates that time and the time. He never really does that. I don't know. Maybe it's partly down to the way we play. Maybe it's partly down to the movements in front of him. It doesn't quite work, but if you set him before the season where you scored eight goals and seven assists, then I'd be like, well, that's a good season for Gilffy Sigarton. He's had a better season than the previous one, much better. I think he's had some really good games at times this year for Everton. Should he be starting for Everton now? I don't believe so. I don't think he's quick enough. For us, it's a by-product of what we've got as a team. He could go and play for Man City, say, and do the things he does. People would call him a great player because he's got a lot of other people doing other jobs. Just what you've just said about Tom Davies, he's another one. If you put mobile players around him and have runners, he looks five times better. Put it this way as well. I was the only player in my squad that you can pick the ball up. Hamers can as well, doesn't really do with that or somebody can. Other than Hamers Rodríguez, he's the only one who can get out of his feet and pop it off at 25-30 yards. He's any kind of threat. You see other players doing it for other teams. We've got him. Hamers can do it, but they're the only two I think who are willing to get it out of feet. I don't think he does enough. I saw him against Wolves. I have a couple to set. The last one. He almost weighed in with a couple, but it's show real for Evan. He's got a lot of really good goals for Evan. It just comes down to the mobility factor for me because he's not a number 10 who will go and dribble past people. He's not a number 10 who will knock her in and get it back in and around a penalty area. He's very much, you have to create the space for him then he can do his thing. He can't play lovely through ball if you've seen it, even the last game of the season. City thread of that one through to Domp and the keepers made a good save from it. He does have that, and maybe sometimes part of the problem for Gylfi Sigarton is the movement ahead of him isn't very good, and therefore because he hasn't got that pace to get away or the dribbling ability, as he's checking back, looking for that pass, people go and take it off him. He's got some good goals as well. Goal at Leeds, goal against Tottenhamerong, really good goals. I've just got a lot in the derby as well. I think technically he's fantastic footballer technically, but as you've just said, he's a slow player and a slow team. That doesn't always help. You can have that, you can have a slow player who's got the brain and the brain works, but if you haven't got that movement, I think the one against Southampton was a great ball into Charleston for the winning goal. He's got that ability, it's just that he never, he's not like, when Hamas Rodriguez plays in there, he'll go looking for the ball all over the pitch. Gylfi doesn't have that, he has more of a discipline to his game, in other words he stands pretty much in the same place. But it's just too many games just go by without seeing him do anything and it's like, I did a play ratings and sometimes it's really hard to give him a rating because he doesn't do anything. And it's not for the one that's trying, it's just that the ball doesn't come into the areas. You'll see him get a little touch and then maybe try and open it up a little bit or a little round the corner or something or whatever, but it's not. It's like when Hamas plays in there you can see him, you can see he goes and gets it and then he's looking to do something and will pop it off wide and then. But with him it's dead weird because he just, he goes through games where you just don't see him and it's, I don't know, I think his football ability does get wasted at times because like you've just said you could put him in a much better team with movement, with players off him and I think he would find them. But the other side of that is you couldn't put him in a man's city because he wouldn't do the doggy still in the ball back and all that kind of thing. And I think that's part of his, get part of the problem is that he is very good at half going to close someone down and then just leaving it and I've done my job. I have seen him cheat his way to a lot of games, trying to look busy but not actually being busy, pointing at other people to do things when he's on and I think that's his major flaw. I don't think he ever wants to grab the game by a screw for the net, he's just never wanted to do that. Maybe he just thinks he doesn't believe he can do that. That's what I'm saying, maybe it is a difference, it might not be doesn't what he wants to. Maybe it is a bit of belief that he doesn't think he is. I think the problem, just off the back of Davis and him, it is the same thing, it's like we're saying again, need better players rather. Maybe Evan just don't have the players to get the most out of him. Like I said before, if you've got a right back who's flying up the wing and you've got a right binger making runs and you've got two mobile millfielders with him. Maybe it opens the pitch up for him and he then comes into his own because people are having to worry about other runners. But if you're looking at an evidence team, that isn't really going anywhere. They're not going to run you, they're not going to sprint through. If you're looking at Luca Dean, we'll stop him and the only other one you need to stop him because he's got a goal in him or he can thread a pass and you put people on them and all of a sudden everything is negated. And then us as fans are looking at him and going, he's not doing anything. Why isn't he doing this or why isn't he doing that? I mean there's a fella on Twitter, he'll tell you're out just how much he does. So maybe it's just the wrong fit for Evan to make up for the team. We're saying it again, but the flip side to that is what you just said about Tom Davis. Maybe we've got too many of these people who need better players around and maybe that's what it is. But I think he's had a decent season, I think. Do you expect them? Do you want them to be a starter in the first team? No. Do you mind if he's in the squad? No, cos he does have that tendency to be able to pull a goal in. Yeah, let's move on. Bernard had a very strange season, 18 games, starter 5, goals 3, assists 1, pass accuracy 85%, successful dribble 63, key passes 0.8. It's been a bit of a, it's been sad to see the decline of Bernard, a player that showed so much promise in his first season. But clearly due to his limitations, physical limitations, he's not someone I think he probably thinks is Premier League ready. Because he's had very limited opportunities, very, very limited opportunities. He is only small, he's not particularly fast. And it's sad really, he nearly got to move out the club which would have benefited him and he'll never come off. And he'll probably go in the summer I imagine. It's sad cos he just looks like a player who's got so much technique. He's another one, he's another one. He's a player who looks like he's got so much ability but it's not enough. And all these players just don't fit together, they're just, as I've said, they are just with the misfit toys. He's another one that somewhere else his technical abilities will shine but it's not here cos he's not up to the rigors of the Premier League. He's not fast enough, he's not strong enough or he doesn't know how to carry himself. There's other players out there who are not much bigger than them but they know how to carry themselves or they've got that little extra bit of pace to get them away. And I just don't think he's quite got that. I also think he makes poor choices when there's opportunities there. And yeah, ultimately I think he's another one that we really have to get out the door. Lovely footballer, technic wise, but yeah, he's not a sprintist. So it's difficult for him to get away from people, he's not overly strong for his strategy. You think of players who are the same size as him. We've been like a marathoner, he was smaller than him but so strong. You know, haven't been able to handle himself. Again it's one of them, you put them in another team in a certain role. He was great for Shakta when he had the likes of Fred doing doggy work for him and he was able to come inside and open things up. We don't have, we haven't got that here and we can't afford to just carry him. We've got 18 games there but he's only started five of them. And some of those games he's come on for three or four minutes. So he's had the kidney stone as well which kept him on for a while. I think this and I think he was ready to go out in January and that would have suited everyone like you said. Everton will get rid of him this summer but it is what it is isn't it? We've got too many players that are just three goals and one assist. Three goals the previous year. I think the decline of Bernard was when Marco Silva left. I think even though Marco Silva had stopped using him as much as well. He used him a lot in his first season and Luca Dina had a great little partnership on the left hand side. And then Silva stopped using him as much. He was in and out and then I think Carlo came in and he tried to give him a go. He flattered to DC didn't he? He started playing him off the striker in a few games but he's fallen out of it. I think Carlo just accepts he can't do what we need him to do and he'll move on in the summer. What's sad about Bernard is and you mentioned there Silva. But you know there was times you know Silva in his last season. I mean it seems so long ago but last season when maybe he got injured in the warm-up. Was he injured in Southampton or Lester or was he injured in the warm-up? He'd been injured in the city and he had me in one of the warm-ups. And it was like you know people would it was devastating as a time really and it seems the drop-off is just incredible to where he is now. But it does happen in football he's obviously just not quite got it and as we said they'd be best for everyone if he moves on in the summer. Let's move on ourselves to Andre Gomez played 32 games start of 21 assists won. Pass accuracy 85% interceptions 0.4 tackles 1.3 successful dribble 65 and it is a case of what does he do. It's another player that you look at and you say what do you do and the answer is he does very very little. He doesn't you know he's nice on the ball you know but it's all you know get it and give it up give it to someone and then. To me he's a player for the last 12 months who just wants to hide. He just wants to hide in plain sight for me I don't I watch him and I see someone who is lost whatever he had in that first year. You know he came to heaven it was a it was a it was a new start he had problems with Barcelona and I think. I think I mean it started happening before he got the injury but I don't know I think he's he is massive confidence player. And I think when he came back from the injury I think. First game he came back in starting look great and then it just he never really picked it up again and I think it's continued this season and he started the season well and again though it's like. Maybe the first little roadblock he went he just falls to bits and. Every time I watch him I just can't put my finger on what he is as a player because he's got the statue of a really good centre midfielder and yet he just lumbers around the midfield. You know anyone ever gets the goal side of him he's finished on he's finished and I just wonder like. Does he believe in himself does he as he got as he got the half for it anymore I just I just don't do you know what I mean and again he's another one. Oh you put them surrounding by better players but you know for me for me he's he's done and I really believe he's done I believe again at his age. To go back to Spain find a nice little club for himself you know where I don't know where real better so or whoever and just finish off the next few years of his career just being fine just being fine in a Spanish midfield and just do that. I remember playing Portugal. He's never hit the heights of Valencia when he looked like a real top. I mean Gary Neville said about him when he'd seen my Valencia he thought he was well class because he was going to be one of the top midfielders so he got everything. I mean two foot can go past people strike with both feet strong on the ball could dribble and we saw Darren at times in his opening his face he did have garner with them doing a lot of the work as well but they look like a lovely little partnership those two for Evan in that midfield and then we obviously had other people with them as well but the injury clearly but you're right even even before the injury he'd had an injury had near Crystal Palace on the opening day of the season and he played against Wolves the next weekend and he was he was in and out for a little bit then he was back and then obviously got the injury against Spurs and came back very quickly you know and had a good couple of games and then obviously the pandemic hit and stopped because I thought against United the room after Arsenal he was right as well and then obviously after the lockdown he just looked really slow and you could have attributed that to trying to keep yourself fit because they had to train on the room for a month and he had missed four months but this season it's never gone any better and you're absolutely right it's what does he do is the pivot throw to the pivot bar and for ages he's been saying just look at his defensive numbers he can't he doesn't do anything so you do have looked at loads of his numbers and monitored them for the last four months of if he got any better he gets dribble past more than any other midfield player in the Premier League once they've gone past him he can't catch them like you said he runs like he's in Segal and it's such a shame because we saw in the first season a goal against Wolves they gave and go you know we see them against Liverpool and I'm feeling them but then they're coming in going oh my god he's from my field there isn't he Old Trafford he was the same old Trafford brilliant even a goal isn't in that season when we cost them the league he was brilliant he went on now no one's dribble past Van Dijk and he left them on his ars past them you know it's just he's never been able to recapture that and I don't know whether it's another season where you go give him a full pre-shoot but we're halfway through them in field here and we haven't said one of them yet yet he's sound we've gone needs a better player I think this fella is a lovely fella and almost deserves to go back to Spain or go to Portugal he could probably go to one of the decent teams in Portugal and have a good goal I remember when he called up to the Portuguese squad and they were like they let him go home because he said he's physically not in the right position and it was just a lamb bell stat to me and I just feel like he's a player almost done an event I think he's given up I generally do I think he's given up I think he needs another fresh start go somewhere where probably see out the last four years of his career you know at the top 28 to 32 in it 28 to 32 go somewhere decent club whether it be in Portugal whether it be some mid table team in Spain and just do what you need to do and be happy and I honestly think you'd see a better player I just think that is completely lot and you're right you know we got the bad injury and then the falls on we have the pandemic and you know and all those things and I just I just don't think I just don't think he's cut out anymore I think as well we've got to be selfish of me for our own club we've got a look and go this is not good enough it's not nice as you are and you might come good again I think the problem is we're talking about Mike come good again but even when he was at his best but he wasn't offering goals and he wasn't offering assists he was just someone in my field he ran round he passed it on he doesn't really fit any really doesn't tick any major boxers of what we need and I think to be honest I think recently we've seen a Carlos just gone yeah he's not even he hasn't gotten a team he hasn't gotten a team so he's done for me Alex O'Wobee played today six games started 21 goals to assist three pass accuracy 83% successful jibbles 63% cross accuracy 14% That last that is the big one for me that is the big one because of the position he played in and when he got into good areas that to me says it all Alex O'Wobee is an enigma wrapped in a question mark inside a kinder egg he's he's the most frustrating confusing footballer I think I've ever seen in an evidence sheet he is no he is genuinely he genuinely is he's got talent all day got talent it's clear as day he's got talent but he can't put it together he even though he knows what his best position is nobody at the club knows what his best position is even though he knows what it is and he doesn't start games when he comes on he shows flashes but it often doesn't really lead to anything he flatters to deceive and there is definitely a talented footballer in there absolutely a talented footballer but he's another one that it will never come out of everything because the simple fact is nobody believes in him and I'll tell you this right now he doesn't believe in him I know that by watching him he doesn't believe number one that he can force himself into position that he wants to play in which is like a number 10 position behind the striker and when he plays out wide the cross accuracy says it himself he hasn't got what is needed to just do the basic of things which is just whip a crossing into a dangerous area there's always I'll stop put my foot on it and then I'll have a little think about it I just think we need to get rid of him as quickly as we possibly can because he's just not the right fit for Evan he'll go somewhere and he will absolutely do well absolutely do well but it's just it hasn't worked and it's not going to work and it needs to be sorted out as quickly as possible yeah I mean he's not a byline winger anyway so he's crossing like you're a see but I mean that shouldn't affect how good you are at putting the ball into the box obviously he is a link player he's somebody who travels with the ball he likes to come inside and link it up but he isn't going to do that Evan I agree with you he's very very good football he's pulled out a few tricks this season the one in the derbyg he's done the free kick with so I thought we were going to win the game it was brilliant you know he's pulled other times he's come out a four member with the ball and he's gone why is that full him away you know for the second goal when he went mad at everyone it was brilliant you know you just haven't seen it enough we've seen moments like brightening the last minute when he had the chance to win it and he's put it over ac os yw hynny ydych chi'n gynllun'n gweithio'r gryf. A yna chi'n gynghori'n amlwg o'r gryf, a dyfoddodd yn cael nowo, a'r yw'r hanes i Alex. felly mae'r gymryd yn rhywbeth wedi bod yn Ysb difd medicyn. Dyna yn gallu bosiai i ddwylo. Yn amlwg hyn yn gynllun. Mae'n amlwg ydw'r gyhoedd wedyn. Felly mae'r amlwg hynny. Mae wedyn gallu bydd ymgylchedd ac yn gondol yma. Ac dweud o'n gallu pwrniau. Nid yw dyma'r oddndol yn hoi. Cymu yn y generic yma, ac dyna'n ffordd y meddwl. Dyma'r gweld y mawr yn gweld. Dyna dفي oed yn gweld. Ond ddweud yn ymdderech, ddiwrnodd yn ffwrdd i fy ffagorau. Wrth fy nghymru, nawr iawn, er fydd mor hwnnw. Ac dwi'n gweld ddim yn siarad y tîm. Mae yna am yw i'w ddweud y bydd yw'n gweld. Mae wasnio. Dwi'n dwi'n redu mae'n meddwl ei gael. I can't have that! I get it if I'm in this summer if I could, I really wouldn't even think twice about it. If we could get £15 million, £18 million, I'd be like, yeah. I think maybe it's one of those players that needs to play in London. Just be with an arm this family and all that, and then he'll be a good player. I think for someone like Pallas he'll be a good player. That's not me saying we should get a heart by the way, but I'm just saying. I think for a team in London I think he'd do well, because he is a nice footballer, but it's just the football that doesn't suit Evan. He's not what we need, and we aren't what he needs. We, Evertonians, want runners. We want a player in a wide area to be able to take the fall back on. That's what we like. We're not playing the way Arsenal used to play with him in the team, where he'd get it coming off the left and it'll be one such foot. We don't play like that. So what we need for him, and maybe if we built this passion team at some stage he would have been ideal for it, but we're not that. We haven't got enough of the other part that make him a good player. Whereas he could probably go and maybe play Manchester City's team and look like a better footballer, because they are capable of doing all that one such stuff, but we don't play like that. I'm not saying he's good enough to get into City's team. I just don't think he works hard enough. But that's what I'm saying. We need... We are a very... I think the thing with Everton, there is this identity thing with players. We do it and it might be a subconscious bias. We do. We love Ben Goffrey. We love Ben Goffrey because he's all heart and he's good as well. We love Tim Kale. Tim Kale wasn't the best footballer in the world but he was hard working. Stephen Naismith won loads of people over because he just worked his bollocks off. With that type of... just the people we are in this city. We don't... we want to see our players bust in the... You've had the go-to-be, right? Incredible footballer. Like James Rodriguez is incredible so people will... Some people won't. But a lot of people will give him a free pass because he's brilliant, right? Because he does the quality on the ball. But if you're not James Rodriguez's level then you have to be someone who... A lot of people love Richard Allison because he works his bollocks off, right? He ain't going to do that. He's going to be a footballer in a team where a lot of the other parts are doing the hard way and he's linking it and putting it together. I don't think as a fan base we want that. We want... It's like we feel players, we'd appreciate a feel player to come in with the ones we've got. Maybe not be dead skillful but to be everywhere and put tackles in and working out so you can kind of go... I identify with him because he's showing me he cares. I think that's the kind of fan base we are and you have to accept that. For him, it's not that kind of thing. And I think for a couple of other players it isn't either. They're not that the knock of footballers but they just don't... But they also don't work hard enough. No? Just on a basic level they don't work hard enough. I think they haven't worked hard enough because there's been no fans there. That's for sure because they've been allowed to... Not allowed to but the manager can shout and scream all he wants but when you've got thousands of fans shouting and screaming you haven't seen it the most game last week you've read the stat out. They've ran more than they had in any other game this season. Because 6,000 people were frigging telling them to run and demanding they worked and so... But he's another one of them isn't he? And we've gone through this whole thing going. Oh, it would be alright with better players. You can't build a team that contains players who would be better with better players. So let's move on. Alan. Obviously we mentioned them in the season new players video. Played 26, started 25, passed across 86, key pass was 0.8. Tackles 3.3, interceptions 0.8, Jules 1-6. Of course he wasn't both for this reason but he scored no goals over any assist. On the whole, a good first season, the injury broke it up. And again, I think suffered from the fact of the partnerships. Him and the Corey, yes, they seemed to work together because listen he's not blessed with lots of pace but he gets himself in the right areas. The Corey picks up the slack but I think you need another one in there. I think as a football, I think he looks neat, he looks tidy. I think he reads the danger, he likes to drive forward with the ball as well. I think he's got to pick and choose when those moments are. So apart from the injury, I think he had a decent season. Not amazing, not amazing by any means but he had a decent season. I just think that injury stopped him in his tracks when he was just getting to give through everything and then to come back and have to pick her up again and going towards the end of the season when everyone else is... And the Corey, wasn't it? Yes, and then the Corey, he played like a game together or half a game together and then the Corey gets injured and then you're asking him to play maybe in a position that he's not quite suited to. Instead of people being fitted into their roles just because of the make-up of our squad we're asking people then to play slightly different and I don't think when we ask them to just sit just much better when he's sitting just in front of the back four it truly works. So I think a solid season but not brilliant. I think he's been good, I do. I think he's been really good. It hasn't been amazing by any stretch because the injuries, I'll tell you that, but I think he's had a really good season. I think there's been some games towards the end when he looked like he was running in Serical more solid on the start of the season and I think that's a combination of the injury also the first season. No pre-season either. Obviously coming back after the injury and trying to pick it back up. We ended up playing four games in ten days at the end of the season which left very little recovery time. Very little recovery time. But I think he's a good passer at the ball. I think he tries to get us on the front foot. In the main, I think he's done well. I do think benefit from another mobile in the field of rhythm. Is it that way every player? I do think for players of his age I do think the way the seasons rolled into each other I don't think that's really helped and I don't think he's benefited from that and I think maybe the injury was a by-product of that and I think having him go away having a rest I don't know whether he'll be involved with Brazil this summer but he definitely is someone who could definitely benefit from going away having a break putting his feet up for a little bit. Having a full pre-season. And then having to come back and have a full pre-season when you're building up to that. And you'd like to think there will be probably six or so games in pre-season. Where you can build it up slowly half a game here an hour and then build it up. So you've got something in your legs but you're being monitored and trained properly because that was the other thing as well. This season there wasn't too many full weeks that they could train. Especially not early on. Don't forget early on. It was a game league cup. And it just followed on every single weekend. And then I went away for the first international call but he remember they all went to Brazil and everywhere else and then he were back and it was game, game, game and batten. So it's been a season of a lot of games in short period of time. A very little rest and a player of his age 30 is coming into a new league which is fast and frenetic. If you haven't got enough recovery times in between then you may pick something up. But I think in the whole I think you had a good season. Moving on to the core outplay 34. Start of 32. Gold 3 assist 3. Pass across 85. Tackles 1.8. Progressive carries 3.05. So he's another one again. So for a D&G late on. A player we really, really missed when he went out the side. When he got D&G against West Brom. I think we won one game in the meantime. I'd probably like to see him get more goals but that's better than that. I don't think it feels pretty much out there. So he was again, he did weigh in and there were times when he was very noticeable when he wasn't in the side. It was very key that he wasn't there. He just gave us something we'd haven't got. Which was a player, an athlete in the midfield. You could get round the pitch, could put out fires but also could come into the box as well. And again he's another one who suffered a thing from not having the make-up of the midfield right. I released that potential. I think he's got to get into the box more. I think we saw him in the Man United game away when we were 2-0 down, second half where he was almost giving a little bit more of a free range to start getting forward. You know we scored one, the one that got us back into the game and then he set up Hamas Oediga for the equaliser and I think that was showing a little bit more of what could happen if you just let him off. If you have Alan and Tom Davis behind him just doing the protection work and letting him then go forward and it certainly worked that night and I think again he's another one who would benefit from a pre-season and he will have nothing this summer and hopefully he comes back fitting rare into golf. He finished the season and he wasn't quite right. You could tell he'd been rushed back. Yes, the foot was healed but it doesn't mean he's fit. You know, you have three or four games in a very short space of time as well. So he's another one who could benefit will benefit hopefully massively from a pre-season. Yes, definitely. The reason I didn't get in the box as much was because he was having to cover Hamas' position and we saw that with his heat map when we did the thing on the midfield and I well he'd done, but in general he'd done very well. He missed a couple of sitters this season as well. United at home, a 2-1 lead at home. He missed a couple of chances in. So he could have easily had five or six goals this season and that's what you want from him. Again, in the ideal midfield with him and Alling you'd have another one like him who's another athlete and therefore can cover and put out more fires. But in general, you know, 20 million quid I think he's done quite well. 32 games off of 34. You've just said very noticeable when he wasn't in our team that he wasn't there. I think that's the best compliment you can play. A player is that when they're not there you do notice them and it was key. The energy levels in the midfield just completely dropped off. Having someone, we've seen it on day one against Spares, some breaking through in it off a corner and him getting back and getting it. And it's things like that that you don't always appreciate when it's not there. You've seen a player get away from another player and it just looks like normal, but when you have a player like him in your field and he's getting back and he's making a nuisance of himself, he's putting blocks in, he's doing what he needs to do, good off set pieces as well defensively as well. I think he's a key man in midfield and it's a case of now replicating what he does and having other players around them who can do what he does as well to help the team out. You need all action players, you've got movements, you've got ability, you've got the pace to get around, physically are the right profile for the Premier League as well. I think he's had a good face season 11 and he's always felt like he was destined to become an Everton player today and I think it was just a shame really that injury curtailed it but we sat here a few times thinking we know he'll get something sooner or later because he was playing every single game and that showed how important he was to the manager. The manager valued him highly and wanted him back as soon as possible as well. And as we mentioned before, with Gabam the manager obviously felt like if he could get Gabam he'd have two plays in midfield and do a similar, a slightly different rate. Gabamans wants to pick the ball up and run with it and take it up the pitch. He's not necessarily like that. Maybe he could do a little bit more of that. I don't know if his touch is quite right for that but that is the right profile for the Premier League because you don't have to be a well-beater. You just have to have the right profile. That's it and if Everton do that this summer then it'll be in good stead. There you go, let us know your thoughts on the midfield. It's been very much an area this season that we've never really got to grips with as a club. It's been in flux all season on beginning to end. So let us know your thoughts on the midfield. Who are the standouts for you and who are the flops? Who would you like to see get more game time and who would you like to see leave the club? Let us know your thoughts in the comments on this one. Make sure to check out our video on the defenders. Make sure to check out our video on the new signings and obviously we'll have the attackers coming up as well as a couple of other videos on the season. There you go, make sure to give this video a like, subscribe if you want. Don't want to do, just do it. Just do it, whether you want or not. 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