 Welcome to Toffy TV. Fabian Delph is an Everton player. He is joined from Manchester City. I am joined by Andy. We're going to discuss how good Fabian Delph is assigning for Everton. Listen, he's an international midfield player signed from the Premier League champions, won the Premier League twice, plays in a Pep Guardiola side. Not a bad sign. You know, you're paying just over £8 million. I get fans pessimism about it, but it's a good player. You know, he adds that experience. He adds a player who can pass the ball. You know, obviously we've got Morgan Schneider, we've got Andrew Gomez, we've also got a dresser guy. I don't think I know people worried about him being a replacement for a dresser guy. I don't think that's the case at all. I think he's just a player marked with silver and master of brands once they add to the squad to provide that experience. It also gives us different midfield options. And again, someone who can break down a team with his passing. If you look at some of his passes for City last season, I know he's playing with Manchester City, but still he's a player who can unlock a defence for us. If he plays 15 games, two cups in the league, we're fine with that. So long as he can have that experience. You know, he adds that dressing room experience where you can say, this is what it takes to win things. And how many players have you got like that, Andrew Gomez, Lucas Eam maybe for a couple of teams? It's not much else really, is there? No, I think we need a vocal player in the dressing room, obviously Phil Diagel. Phil Diagel has gone on the door. I said this when we had a chat about him last week in terms of what he brings, having watched that all on off in documentary. Very vocal in the dressing room, very pulling players together, not scared to say his bit. And I think Marco Silva wants that. That's a thing that's come out with this transfer. Is that that line about leadership qualities and about that will to win and that strong mentality in the dressing room has all come out with Fabian Delph? Has got all of that and I think that helps with anything? Maybe Marco Silva wants someone on the pitch who mirrors his personality, but he can't say a manager on the pitch but acts as someone who pushes the player on the pitch in the dressing room because in the day the manager's obviously got a lot of influence but still they need players amongst the players who spend time together to have that influence because I've seen with the pep thing interrupts pep which people don't generally do, sticks his hand up and he basically riles the team up ready for the next round. So that's the type of thing you ever need. Again, it's not like it's not like with Simon, a player who's finished or he's 33, he's 20 now, he's not quite 30 yet. No, he's not 30 till something like November. So he's still got a couple of years of football left in him. I think it's a three year deal, I'm not too sure of the parameters around that but at eight million we can't really complain for the price. Get a good player, he adds a bit of the experience, he can hit the ground run, he can come straight into the team and play in the Premier League, there's no adaptation period. So it's a good sign, it might have been a good sign originally I was like oh it's a flight in five million's health but let's put our analytical caps on here, we're getting a good player at a very cheap price. I think you have to look at, a squad is built up of many different pieces isn't it and the team isn't it, I've seen and I've had this discussion with people over a weekend and you know even last week or where does he play then, you know who does he play instead of and it's like why are you just assuming that he's going to play, he's straight in the team. I don't think Mark O'Shilder guarantees anybody football, I think to get Fabian Delth through the door they will have, he'll have asked what's my role. And they will have said well you'll fight for your place because everybody does but we see you doing this job or that job. It's up to him to keep, if he gets in the side it's up to him to stay in the side. That's what happened with Zoom last season he missed a couple of games because me and Keane played together, he played well and he got injured and then he was back in, he could have been out of the side for like six, seven weeks it could depend. As you say you can't guarantee people starting spots otherwise, people become complacent, you know people start settling into the roles not being pushed, we've said this spot to say you need someone to push him, come and you need to be able to push him. You look at Banes, you know Dean came in, Banes played the first two games and then Dean took over, that was there. So we need that though you can't, you know I think people see it and go well you can't sign a win because you've got Bernard and Charleston but you need something different off the bench or whether we're playing a different type of team so you just need those different things. Delth could play in the midfield three with Gomez and Gay as well, you know if you want to be a bit more defensive I guess so there's a lot of options that he provides. You just need to consider it in the fact that Everton can't go out and just sign all young players I guess because the squad as you say needs a make-up of different types of players and someone with a winning mentality is Liverpool fan that would James Milner. It can help the squad that has to get over that hump really and we're looking into the top six, win a cup, that experience will be helpful. Definitely I think when you again that you know you just mentioned Milner there and there's players like that we got and I'm not trying to just go there's Gareth Barry but we got Gareth Barry in and I know there was a lot of negativity when we got Gareth Barry in. You know Fabian's not, he's not 30 yet, he's coming into the side. I think it said last week if he was the only sign in this summit then I'd understand people being very down beat. You know I'm very negative about it really because there's probably other areas but it's not necessarily. Again teams are made up of many different ways you know and if we, you just agree point there about Bernard and the Chalice and you want to add to them so that I don't think anybody should know that they're playing the following week unless they're playing out of the skin. If they're playing amazing then they deserve to keep the place on the side but it does you know arm if a cup, players are dipping. You know what you want? You want 11 players that you can pick every week you know in your head and then the subzarn is good or do you want 15, 16, 17 players you go any of them could start and our quality isn't diminished. You know I know at this conversation with someone over the weekend and they were like well yeah the last 10 weeks were great but the rest of the season was rubbish, what quality have we got and I was like well the first few months of the season was okay, the middle wasn't and the end was good but I would like to look and think by the end of the season that's more a blueprint of what Marco Silva is trying to do with that team and those players playing to their level of ability so that's the point I look at for everyone. That's the marker? Yes so and you can't just rest with that 11 from last season because I know we are happy the way they played at the end of last season, that's a marker they've put down for next season but as I've said before you need to be able to play different ways so and adding players to that makes a difference because you could say you know whichever right wing you sign they come in certain games but Charleston goes into the middle. It will add the different elements to it because if you play the same every game what happens is as we found out under Roberto Martinez for example teams start to work it out quite quickly and by the middle of the season the results start to turn because they know exactly how you are going to play. They'll just sit deep, wait for us to counter attack and then counter attack us so that's what will end up happening so we need to be able to play different ways and adding players like Dalf who can do different jobs. I don't think you'll play a left back have I'm honest. I think it is a pep system where the left backs play much narrower and higher up the pitch, it's different than playing an 11 where you like it to have it to defend a slight bit more so I think you'll be a sentiment fielder. Whether Morgan Schneiderland stays, I'm not too sure he's on a lot of money and you've got Tom Davis, that'll be good for Tom Davis to work with another box to box in my field like Fabian Delf. I always got Gomez and Gay already there but someone else you can sort of try and basically you know a bit of experience from to laying off really. You might grab him as well? Yeah exactly and it's worth it also work ethic as well he's coming from a city team that's been a machine for the last two years and even look at city and the other top teams they've always got players. You know Staling gets dropped, he makes a score tree in the previous game. Santa you wear on lubs, it's dropped consistently if he doesn't play well. So that's the type of standards that you need to keep but I think bringing a Delf in the dressing room, you'll set standards for work on the training pitch and you'll expect consistency and you'll call players out in the dressing room who are not playing well. And that's what we need sometimes, you need to wear a mentality. You know people say, I don't think he's going to be captain but it's like having an experienced voice in the dressing room who knows how to win it. It's a leader in a sense yeah. I mean he's played just on you know 95 games I think for city in four years, you know 22 a season on average. That's okay, you know he's got some injury worries, we know that he's picked injuries up but again it's all being part of that squad. I just think what he brings and ultimately for me the manager and Marcel Brans have decided he won them so I'm good with it. He wouldn't have made this decision just in the last three weeks because he's come available, he wouldn't have looked at him for six months knowing there possibly wouldn't have any year left that he might be available. He wouldn't have earmarked him as the type of player that can make that difference in the team. So it's not something where they've just made that decision likely, they'll know exactly what his qualities are now of the fit in the team. And I think Marcel Brans, you know Marko Silver likes that type of player to come in, he likes a bit of an experienced player at times as well. Marcel Brans, I know people say why has he signed all these young players and so he says go back to PSV, I've said it before, he signed Daniel Schwab, Andres Gordado and he signed Hector Moreno when they were 27, 20, 29. I had that little experience, get them over the line to win the end of the season so you know you need to have those type of players. I know people say we've got Garn and stuff like that but they're a different type of player. Garn is never really, I'm not too sure if he was in the Leal team that won the title about seven or eight years ago. But you know we haven't got that many players who've won things, you need that type of winning mentality. Yeah I mean for me it's the price you've shed as well, eight and a half, rising to ten if he does certain things and plays around the games. I don't think we can really complain about that and getting a good experience. It's not like we're bringing the players just not good enough for everything as well. You know you look at the team and you go I can see that Fabian's out playing games. Now do we expect them to start over getting Gomez if they're the two? No it don't but in certain games, game might be injured, Gomez might be injured. You might think I'll go defensive or drop anti-Gomez for a game. I know people don't like to hear that but you've got to give different tactical looks against different teams. That in the day, the manager knows why he's brought him in. You have a specific role for him in mind and hopefully he'll prove to be a good sign. I think he will do. Let us know what you think in the comments section below. Fabian Delph is an Everton player. Come into the squad, Marco Silva, another sign in this summer. Let us know what you think in the comments section below. You're happy with it? Are you non-plus by it or are you just like okay but there's a need for other players in other positions? But overall what is your overriding feeling about Fabian Delph becoming an Everton player? Big thanks to Andy for his input as well. Make sure you subscribe, make sure you get over and join us on Patreon as well. Fabian Delph is a blue. See you later.