 Welcome to Toffy TV. It is the Season Preview 2021. They come round so fast. They really, really do. This one has. This one has, yeah. I suppose you're right. It's late, but it's... I mean from when the last one finished. Of course. How are we feeling about the season starting? And I don't know. It just feels like it is just like dead quick. We were always going to be like that. We knew that. Obviously once the pandemic hit, we knew that it was going to be a quick turn around. I'm actually feeling good about it. Really good about it. A few weeks ago, three, four weeks ago, we were hoping that things would pick up. And now to be sitting here today and have the three new lads in to the squad. It does refresh you. It does give you that belief and hope. And I think for me, just from a personal point of view, is that it's really refreshing, I guess, that something that has been bugging me about our team, the manager's gone and resolved by getting the players in. It's not resolved because you don't know what it's going to play out like, it's gone on paper, it's gone on its rest. An issue that looked was huge for me. And probably for loads of other people as well. But from a personal perspective, I'm actually delighted with the fact that you've gone out and been able to get the Corian and Lanin, and obviously Hamers, Rodriguez as well. So I'm excited by it. Yeah, it puts a completely different slant on the season, doesn't it? You've been here last week and you haven't got three players in, then you're looking at it as the same old same old. Of course, more time this year to get players in, the chance for windows and shutters under three weeks. But then you feel like you're chasing almost, you're chasing your tail almost, you're almost like, like you just said, and then when you're signing players, after the season's already started, it doesn't feel like you've understood what the problems were. If you're bringing players in during the season, it might be because you've got a couple of doubts about a couple of people or some things just show up or injuries or whatever. But to go out and buy three players in, certainly in two coming in that are in a vital position, it does feel satisfying, it does feel like something's a little bit different. And also not going out and buying anyone because you've just sold somebody as well. That's another big fact that I think as well. You're going out, you've recognised, and let's be honest, we all knew, but at the same time it doesn't mean it's going to get fixed. But to go out there and bring in three players, it's huge, really. It is. We need it. He said earlier when he came in, he said it before he said, we need energy in the midfield, we need to be able to compete. Too many balls getting passed sideways and backwards, more vertical passing, and he's got two lads that like to do that. One's a ball carrier in the corey, like to get forward and break into the box. Alan plays a lot of forward passes. Real terrier, I've said it before. It reminds me a little bit of Peter Reid from the Halcyon days of just the fact that the way he goes and engages and gets involved in the game and sets the tempo. And if then two can click, Evan will be very, very competitive because the Premier League is all about athleticism, but it's about competitiveness. And my field was all, it was just too, nice probably isn't the right way, but it was just all the same and there was no dynamism in it. And I don't think any of the three lads you played at the end of the season were in any kind of form either. I think the big thing for me was is that the things that we've got in our midfield don't work unless you've got other things there. Tom Davis, Gomez and Sigarton, the three finished the season. I've all got attributes that don't work when they're all put together. The only work if you put them alongside players, that's why when we had Ghana, Gomez was a more effective player, Sigarton was a more effective player, they liked it, Tom Davis was a more effective player, because he had someone who could do the work that they simply couldn't do. And when you've got three players in there who missed that bite, for whatever dynamism they've got or whatever positives they've got, because they're all good players, it just doesn't work unless you've got a bit of bite. And I think simple fact is the manager has recognised that straight away. And now, because you... And that's always a good start. Because a team only functions if everyone's got to do a little bit of everything, but you also need players who understand the engine, to do their job. What it takes, and I think we had that in Ghana, we were hoping we were going to have that with Gabamon, but obviously so far that hasn't really worked out. And hopefully now, with Alan, and also having D'Cory in there who's a proven Premier League player, Dale helped the mix. I'm hoping they lift everyone's level, because that's the ideal, isn't it? So that's a very positive aspect going into the season. Obviously Hamers, Rodriguez, the ability the kids got. Left footers, incredible. You know, you can't... Whether he's as good as he is, who knows? He hasn't played much football. It's certainly not last season. He said he was fit for a lot of it, but just Alan just didn't play him. He's at Real Madrid. He's had an elite club with a lot of options. There's a Welsh fella there who's quite good as well. He doesn't play either. So they've had that happen with Real Madrid down the years. We know that Hamers on his day, when Auntie Lottie had him at Bayern Munich, incredible. I've got a comparison thing with Theo Wolcott. And it's just like chalk and cheese. It's chalk and cheese, because obviously Hamers may play in that position off the right hand side. So his creativity will help him away with goals, I think. The two key things for him is keeping fit. And then just adjusting to how quick the Premier League is. But he's such a clever footballer. That good footballer can play anywhere, really. The success level will be off, I think, if you can cope with the physicality. He's played in Germany. South America's a difficult place to start, but he's a kid. He's been in Spain as well. He's done a brilliant Golden Boot winner at the World Cup. So all the attributes are there. Fantastic, exciting footballer. We've just got to try to keep him fit. So that makes you go, well, when I look at the season, you look at that team at the end, there's a lot of people I just wanted to be in the whole thing. Everyone was awful. They were terrible. They were light years away from anything and all of the stuff that gets thrown in. But I look at Everton's team and I go, well, the goalkeeper can be better. And it's a big season for him. The Euros are at the end. I know they were at the end of this one. But they're at the end of it. But I also think the manager knows. I don't think the manager is convinced at all by Jordan Pickford. So he's got to step up. If he can get his level up, that'll help us. He's got to earn us points this season. He cost us points last season. Definitely, yeah. We know there's a question mark. I'll be saying it right back. Seamus is dead. He's not going anywhere. But it's John Joe Good. We don't know there's a question mark. And there's issues with the back four. But I think each one of them with a good midfielder in front of them improves. I think, yeah, he means he's probably our best player overall. Maybe, him and Holgate were fine for the day. Michael Keane had a really strong finish to the season. We've seen young Jarrah Brandt coming and doing okay. I think all of them do better with a better midfielder in front of them. We talked about that midfielder. And the two kids we've got up front in the Chialison and Don, 26 goals between them. Can they get more? See right, they can. See right, they can. But you know what? If you've got something like Rodríguez, hammers creating for them. They're going to get more. And also a centre midfielder who joins in. A centre midfielder who gets to the edge of the box, who's coming into the box. Who's making runs that allow those two. So they're not the only two options in the box when a ball comes in there. He's averaged six goals a season for Wafford and centre mid Decore. And we've said it, and probably a million times on there now. But our midfield with the wing has got nine goals between them last season. So that'll be great if he can have some goals who will still rarely give us an option. And then you look at people like Gilfee Sigarton who didn't have a good season at all. If he's going to be a bit part player, can he rediscover some of the form that's seen him get 13 goals the year before? If there's question marks over a wob, if there's question marks over Bernard, can they lift their level? They should be able to with better players. So when you look at it like that, and then you've got obviously Moise Keane who we don't know what he's capable of really, do we, and Anthony Gordon? That's why I'm optimistic. I'm not, again, it's easy to be optimistic before a ball's kicked. But I am optimistic that we've addressed some of the issues that we've got. Yeah, I think, for me, I think, like saying the manager knows exactly what he wants now. I think that coming back from lockdown was a difficult experience for everybody. I think once we got beat by Spares, I think the hope of European football was gone. And it was just going from week to week. Do you think in that period, though, do you think that opened his eyes even more to the deficiencies? Or do you think he'd seen them anyway? I think what happened was, I think, I think when, I think without a crowd, I think you've seen the actual levels of footballers without the, without, no, no, but without the adrenaline and the times and stuff like that, and the other things, that's the way a game of football. There was no X factor involved in games, then it was all just one team against the other, and how far can you pull yourself up? And let's be honest, apart from a couple of games, we never really did it. I think he would have took all that information and he would have looked at it and he knew what he wanted, he went out and got them. And now he'll be looking at the rest of that team and saying, well, this is how it is now. We don't know when fans are going to be coming into the grounds, so you've got to get yourself to that level. You've got to get yourself winning games of football, mentally be prepared for games, and I've got these three, and if you're not playing that on you now, you know, someone like, let's say, someone like Guilfee Sigarton now could go out the team and could find it very, very hard to get back where there's last season, I think those players mentally were like, well, I'll be back in next week. If I'm not playing today, I'll be back in next week. When you've got that mentality, I think it's never going to get the best out of people, but I think now that goes up a level that Tom Davis, Gomez, Guilfee Sigarton straightaway are like, we're probably not going to start, so we might be sitting on the bench for a very long time and then there'll be other players like that, I think the manager may have made his mind up about a few players now, but in a lot of ways, like, oh, you're not fit to play, Sam Smith, when you are fit to play, you're not playing, you know, and I think if I'm being dealt, right, I just think his, the fact that he's someone to me who I just don't feel like wants to play football when he's got, I find it very, very strange, so I think he's going to get lashed. If he doesn't get sold, I just think he'll have to sit on the bench every week. When really, if he'd made himself available, he could have easily played towards the end of the season for us, but I feel like he always, he looks to me like someone who finds the easy option. I'm not fit to have to sit out. You know, one of them. Eletirly. No, that's my personal feelings. That's my feelings on the player. No, I'm not saying that's what it is. That's what I see from the player. I don't think he's played for Everton since February. And he hasn't got a serious injury. So what does that say about him? I think a wobi is another one, and I'm not casting anything on a wobi as in the same with what I've just put on Delf. What I'm saying is... Right? Easy, easy. You've had that stutter in start. It's dead now. The excuses have gone now, because you were last year's thing. You were last year's big boy, and fans move on very, very quickly. We've got these other players now. You've been here a year now. So, stop with the excuses. Stop with... I'm not bothered by anything else, by the way. I'm not interested in Instagram videos or whatever. That's a different thing. It's time to perform. If the manager has to play in a position, you need to start doing it. Because Anthony Gordon will be busting a gut in that position. I expect more out of Bernard this year as well. I expect more out of him. But that's it though. If he's been challenged, do you want to be here or not? This is where, again, these three signers are really important. It's great to get Carl on to Lottie, and everyone's like, yeah, it's brilliant. But I think it wore off because the period is not playing any games. But we're back at it now. We've just signed three players, and the players will be like... Number one, he's serious. Number two, they've backed him. Do you want to be in your position next? Do you want to be at this club in the Premier League, in good money, being managed by Carl on to Lottie? Do you want that? If you don't, go somewhere else. So, you'll put that on the players. I think now, and as I said, you don't want to play when you're not playing them, and you will not get a chance to play for this team. Hopefully, if that's the case. It's going to last question. I'm quite sure. Well, we know from what reading between the lines and what was said by Marcel Brands at the ADM and what's been said in other things that they don't want a huge squad. A huge squad is a hindrance. When we watched the Tottenham document of you and Marino talking about it, talking about doing the impossible job, when you're a manager trying to keep basically like 20 other players after you aren't playing football, it causes issues. The other fella from across the park said they only like to work with 16 or 17 players and the rest kids. I think our manager only wants to work with about 20. I think that's what Marcel Brands said. 20, 21 and three or four academy players. That's how you keep the squad fresh. Now, okay. It's difficult to do that. Of course it is. And as a fan, you go, we want two great players in every position. The reality is it doesn't work like that unless you're a super, super club who playing five tournaments a season and go far in all of them and everyone gets games. So for everything, there will be half of dozen players, I think, who should be looking over their shoulder and going, this might be the biggest club I play for. This might be the best it gets. Best contract. Do you know what I mean? And if that's the case fight for it because Fabian Delf come in and I thought it was a city documentary and seeing how mad he was. We might need a little bit of that in the team. I thought he'd come in and want to drag people to the level. And I don't know whether he was sold something different. I don't know whether the injury's got to him. I don't know whether he really liked Marko Silver or he didn't really like Marko Silver in the end. And therefore he hasn't been able to discover, rediscover the hunger. I don't know what it is, but for whatever reason, he's played 18 games for a while and he hasn't played a game. I'm sure he's not played since Waffford away when my woman got sent off. I can't remember him playing after. I might be wrong, but just off the top of my head I can't remember him playing a game since then. And yet we're in September. We've just played two pre-season friendlies and he didn't feature in either of them. Now that's amazing good enough, but there's other plays he's right. There's Theo Wolcott that's got nine months left on his left. I don't know whether he's hoping to get another year or whether he's happy to go somewhere else. I don't know. But he's got a big nine months. The weather he secures a new deal of everything or he gets a decent move somewhere else. We've got Yannick Bellassie in the squad at the moment. He's got nine months left on his left in Korea. It's an option for him to try to get a place in the team. Mo Bezich has got to know that. But he's another one who's going. So these plays are training. Sandro Rymérez off the door anyway. But these plays are training. Gilfee Sigarton is the one. Gilfee Sigarton, come on a big contract for big money. Okay the first season was alright. Got injured when he was doing well actually and that was it. Second season he was very good he was. And last season he was poor really bad. And yeah I think his numbers are still he was one of our best man fielders but that doesn't say anything. So for him I still think he might be looking at and now he's a good trainer and he might be looking and thinking well I can benefit from these plays and he might offer something. But there's people like Tom Davis pet who weaved back to the Hilton gond. Now he's got a but now I honestly look at everything and look at the type of players coming in and go I don't see it. I think some of them have got three weeks. On a side I think some of them have got three weeks. I think some of them have got three weeks to prove themselves to the manager. And if they don't then they're going to have to leave or they're going to find themselves on the bench for the whole season. And that's what's quite interesting and it's like you take some two people and listen people won't want to wear this and I know but two players like Taylor Wolcott right and Yannach Balasi right. They've both got the same length of Mount of Town on their contracts. And if Hamas or Adegas does play right right and there's still going to need someone else. And they're both fighting for that position. And in the next three or four weeks the manager might go I actually prefer Yannach Balasi. He's more direct. He gets on the bar line. He's powerful. He's got a pace about him. Listen, there might be fans out there who go use a token nonsense but I'm talking about the comparison between him and Taylor Wolcott. I'm talking about the comparison between him and some amazing right winger. And I like Taylor because I like Taylor's attitude more than anything. I don't think he delivers. I don't think he's ever really delivered but what I mean by when I say I like him is I prefer that attitude and I prefer Fabri Del's attitude. I think his attitude absolutely stinks. And that's just my opinion by the way but that's my opinion on my ladi. But I think even on the other side though I think Bernard. I love Bernard. There's a football. I think technically he's superb but what I mean by that by the way is sorry I'll stop pointing now. What I mean by that by the way is someone like Theo Wolcott will keep older people in the squad right? So if you want a Balasi I think Balasi is to say but if you want if you want a Balasi to get into the squad and I everything will take an offer if you don't of course you will. But if you've got two players pushing each other you'd rather that wouldn't you? Two players that are pushing each other then two players you are not bothered I think we've seen and I'm hoping it's turned out but I think we've seen over the last few years that it has become a little bit I'll go there being a decent player I'll go there big money they want me to do stuff and they can cheat a little bit but I'm not giving 100%. Well let me just throw another name in that I want to see that from this season Moise Keane. I want to see that I'm not having to go with the kid I'm just want this season I want to see that I want to see Moise Keane pushing those two up front so that when the Cavalene doesn't have a good run oh oh when Charleston doesn't have a good run Moise Keane can knock on the door and go gaffer, why aren't I getting a go and that's what I want I think we want that all round the pitch but certainly in those forward positions There is a big question mark over him he's the highest profile player I'd say with the biggest question mark over a good amount of money loads of potential I don't think the whip last season but the key to that is the caveat to that is did he do enough on the training pitch to it's all very well going with Charleston's not playing very well you know taking him out being a big decision to take with Charleston on the side or to put with Charleston on the wing will be a big decision but if Moise Keane was absolutely flying in training and looking strong and scoring goals and was rarari, you'd want to get him in the team so you'd find a way to get the three of them in the team I don't think he did that enough last season even when he got on but what I would say was at the end of the season against Bourmouth I thought he played well I thought he scored a goal he looked a handful and then obviously when I had a break but then was training seriously and was quite quite sort of you know bullish a barish am coming back stronger and you don't know me when there was those links with him going I'm not going anywhere and all that and now he's just being in the two Italian squads and got on in both games obviously one he played 40 first half and he came on and out when he beat Boston he'd come on for the last five or six minutes but he was backing the national squad and getting on the pitch and so I'm hoping that that gives him that little bit between that confidence of like backing I've got Carlo Antolotti I've been managing we've just signed people like James Rodriguez we've got Newman Field I'm going to force my way into the side because let's be honest talking frankly if anything were to celebrate at the end of the season if you had a great season and Barcelona say coming for him and he wanted to go the natural path should be it's alright because we've got Moise Keane and he should be able to go with Dom and then we should be bringing the next fella in to be the third, do you know what I mean? that's how it should be a progression ideally it'll be the case that Moise Keane will be Andrew Charleston will stay anyway that's how it should be but at the moment is anyone really sitting around going on Sunday front two really should be Moise Keane and Dom or Richard Charleston and Moise Keane I don't think anyone really will be sitting around Moise Keane the manager hasn't gone out and looked to get another centre he said he wants to keep him here and that's not like he's only a kid but he's also third choice he's third choice in a team that plays two so he's got a chance he's going to get chances aren't he and he used to say we're not going to start playing three and see I look at the three of them I think all three could play together with a better midfield who can cover so that we might be great tracking back because we know Richard Charleston is great to getting back and defending but if you've got a midfield you can cover that could be an option that the three of them could play together as well so I'm hoping to see more he's the one who I'm really hoping to see more because I think he's got something definitely and he's got to pull it out he's got to produce it and if he does then I think everyone will be made up because we'll have three lads then who are dangerous in that final third I suppose for this season we've got to go back into the mix haven't we for that European space obviously seventh wasn't good enough last season to get into Europe but if you get in there about and we've seen on the last day to get into the top six was still open for I think two or three teams on the last day we've got to be in that mix now and we've got to be looking at European football and hopefully a trophy I know we say this every year and I'm not going to say a good cup run because that means nothing that's nonsense isn't it got to be in there and haven't we taken it seriously is what I mean that starts with next week when we play south of the city got to be serious about it because show last season you get through a couple of hands in the next minute you get a home door we went out on penalties against Leicester and it just like a lot of things it just come at the wrong time players were knackered and they were flying exactly we were very unlucky and then they ended up getting villain in the semi-finals and I know they got beat by them but you were fancy but Villa got to the cup final and stayed up on the last day so it is not always the Villa got to the cup final and used to say this season with the way the league is so condensed and the Champions League and the Europa League this season just go I know City always cruise and then play strong team maybe in the semis or in the final but used to say this season that those top 7 teams don't go maybe this year we will have it we've got to be in there haven't we for that because obviously that gets wrapped up you're starting the FA cup you've got to be for me got to be taking both trophies I think they will this season I just think when we went to I'm feeling the FA cup we just the place under us or whatever our mindset or whatever but I think we have got to be looking at that but wearing a race with the likes of Leicester and Wolves and Tottenham and Arsenal did it that's who we're battling with I think personally the top 4 will be the top 4 and then I think 5th down to maybe 9th is open 5th to 10th maybe even and we've made some good additions and it's about you know what it's about what you do with it even if you took the big 6 out of it whoever they are now but even if you took the traditional big 6 and us there's 13 other teams there if we beat those 13 teams home and away now that would include Wolves and Leicester so they're tight but what I mean is the bottom 10 teams are home and away there's 60 points straight off the bat right so if you've got a couple of wins again and I know that's easier said than done but what I'm just saying and trying to show that there's other ways round those facing those big teams isn't there if we won 4 more games then if we won 4 more games this season and we won last season we'd be over 60 points and we had a terrible season and that's your opinion territory so that's the new castle game at home do you know what I mean two minutes away from two extra points I know we ended up equalising last minute but really we should have been filly that should have been a team we beat at home Salpant Norwich at home you know these games that don't get me wrong I'm not sitting here going I'm not sitting here saying we should have been filly four extra wins on top of what we did last season on top of what we did last season you're talking bats when you're in Europe so you've got four extra wins you're putting yourself in the shot window people look at it and go we're years away from the years away people said Chelsea were years away 12 months ago now we're sitting here going drop there in the top four again remember last summer last summer when Lampard he couldn't spend any everyone was going people were like so it's a tough league but I feel a lot better I used to say we don't bring in a couple more maybe loans just to sure it up sure they'll bring a centre back in on loan whether they bring realistically hopefully with everything crossed I'd like to see a centre back a right back and another winger coming I don't think at this stage without four players the season starts couple of teams out there we need a bit more players get injured they might come calling for a couple of hours if we think a deal it's worth doing and we can bring a loan for this season next summer we go big in those positions then then why not you'll see what happens it's going to be a very strange season I'm really excited I'm more excited about this season than I have been for a few but at the same time then I go I can't go and I don't know when we can go and that's what tempers it but it's life in it it's what it is let's just hope that we play a few games and we become competitive and listen the number one thing is you watch your team and you've got a bit of pride cos I think that's got to be the start won't it be lovely to be like games like Arsenal away and teams like that going there and thinking we beat these to them and feeling confident about it so having that going through all traffic going to beat these when you know you've got a team going to Villa and going to beat these well that's the biggest thing going to those kind of teams and winning like three and they'll let you see top teams do going to teams and going after five minutes not knowing that you're going to get beat which we do a lot of time 34 seconds now listen if you're not positive now new players boss new kits Carlo Ancelotti and Hamers Rodriguez on his 400 million reach like we did the other day you've got to be excited for that we love the Colombians there you go there's not much more we can say on it we're here every day we're talking about football all the time we're here every day we're talking about football so it's hard sometimes to envisage next week never mind the whole season let's hope big one the big one I want for this season is 50,000 subs for toffee team and that comes with a good team that comes with positive talking after the game about positivity and not moaning and not having stupid outbursts that comes from positivity as far as I'm concerned so if you haven't subscribed please do tell your friends all over Colombia tell them everywhere Miami and New York please subscribe 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