 Welcome to Toffee TV, it is the Everton News Daily. Hamas Rodriguez has been left out of the Colombian squad for their upcoming World Cup qualifiers but also for the Copa America as well. The tournament which has been moved away from Colombia is now set to take place fully in Argentina. Will there be going ahead without Everton's number 19? Obviously a player who's been played by injuries all season has been left out to fitness not at the optimum level according to the Colombian statement on the player. It's a huge huge statement by the country for their you know their best player, their talisman really for him not to play and it could be a huge benefit for Everton with the player set to have no football in the next few months. Obviously he played by injuries recently as well and during the whole of December playing around I think he played about 24-25 games for Everton this season so big blow to the player but could be a huge positive for Everton. Hamas himself said I want to express my thoughts and feelings regarding the decision made by the coaching staff of the Colombian team for the upcoming knockout date and Copa America. I come from a recovery that is in the final part in which I took enough time to fully integrate myself to the practice of soccer and this is the way not to affect my participation in in the next commitments of our selection. The pain of times of progress is that I be careful to participate on date 7 of the tie but they would allow me to fully integrate on date 8 and of course being the Copa America 2021. With surprise I receive the statement for the main technical bodies stating that they do not count on me and wishing me a full recovery recovery that I've already made in which I've sacrificed a lot. The above film with deep disappointment because for me it means playing for not playing for my country not receiving the trust from the technical body breaks with everything can cause me enormous pain since the start for the shape of the Colombian team I've always left even my life. For my colleagues the best energy and best wishes from a distance I will support with passion and always. So there you go. Hamas Rodriguez has a statement there obviously he's very saddened by the news that he will not be going to the Copa America but as I said that could be a huge benefit for editing for next season and let's hope he recovers fully and by the time the season starts he is you know over the disappointment of not playing for Colombia in the Copa America. Moving on Ellis Sims says he was ready to make the step up to showcase his talents. Obviously he went to Blackpool and they are in the playoff final on Sunday against Lincoln. He also says Everton have a decision to make with his contract ones out next summer and he'll come back regardless of what happens of course and he's thrown the goal without there hasn't he? To Everton you know he wanted to play he said he was too good for the under 23s when in there and he's done really really well for Blackpool they really really like him and hopefully he can fire them into the championship and hopefully Everton will make a decision on him whether they're going to keep him or offer him another year or two contract or whether they decide that this would be a great time to sell the player. We'll have to wait and see on that but obviously Sunday is the playoff final against Lincoln. David Andreff has spoken on a couple of matters today one being Leighton Baines he said Leighton Baines is working all over the club he said he's been absolutely everywhere all over the club in the last year he said he's monitoring he says he's delivering one to one sessions he's in the classroom with the players he says he's also working on the analysis side with the first team he says ourselves in the under 23s and in the under 18s he said he's everywhere he says he's been really impressed with what he's shown so far and the hours he's put in so good stuff there Leighton Baines obviously came back came back into the coaching department last year when he retired and it was always going to be interesting to see how he got on because I don't know it always seemed Leighton Baines he had his eyes elsewhere maybe he wasn't going to stay in football but he's not being thrown into deep end he's not being asked to go in coaching he's been mentoring people and overseeing different things and it looks like maybe maybe he's getting into it more and more how it goes on it's going to be interesting to see how he's ever in career develops his coaching career or his mentor and career or whether he goes into you know the director of football kind of side of things but we'll have to wait and see David Underwick has been speaking about the director of football as well he's been speaking about Marcel Brands he said he had a vision of what he wanted in the academy and he's got it now so basically all the plans that Marcel Brands had laid out for the academy I started to bear fruits he said certainly I have to repay his faith he's shown me in delivering year on year and trying to get more quality players from the academy and the under 18s into the first team and there certainly seems to be a bit of a buzz with those players that are around 17 18 in the Everton and in those Everton squads 223s in the under 18s that those players could could make it with obviously the right career path a lot of the older players are now starting to leave the club we've seen this week Matthew Pennington leaving the club he's gone to Shrewsbury there's a decision to be made on Nathan Broadhead and other players have left and that crop of players we've won the last couple of the 23s leagues they've mostly gone now and it is a younger crock coming through and it is all about putting the right plans in place and hopefully with what David Underworth saying their Marcel plans has got those plans coming to fruition so there you go let me know your thoughts in the comments and anything I've discussed today Hamas Rodriguez how much of a benefit will that be for Everton next season or is it a disappointment that he's not playing for Columbia this summit in the Copper America let me know your thoughts we've got a lot of season reviews coming out day by day there's a lot already on Patreon and they're coming over to YouTube day by day so if you want to check them out straight away get over to Patreon the link is in the description and it's on the screen now thanks for watching give this video a like subscribe if you haven't already and I'll see you later