 Welcome to Toffy TV, well-event of signing Deli Alley from Tottenham Hotspair, big signing, big signing that if you'd said to me a couple of years ago Deli Alley would be signing forever and I would be thinking we must be in the Champions League or about to win it all but here we are and we've signed them and he's one of Frank Lampard's first signing so it's very, very exciting. Frank Lampard's first payment signing. Yeah, it is, it's a madman because for a while he was one of the best young players in the world wasn't he? Certainly Niora, he seemed to be upward trajectory, playing for England, scoring goals with World Cups, doing very well with Spays, him and Harry Kane were fantastic for Tottenham and everything was going in the right direction and then Potatino left Spays and since then it's all seemed to have gone the other way for him. Marineo came in and we've all probably seen a documentary called him lazy on day one and that probably wasn't the greatest start to his day relationship and since then he stalled, his careers just come to a standstill and now it's so much so that we had a situation where Adam had managed to get him on a free transfer, effectively really. No kick has come in until he's played 20 Premier League games which is next season because obviously with the amount of games left so that shows how low his stock has gone, evidently of being able to go to Spays on deadline day and formulate a deal at future parties without much fuss really. But if Everton can get him right and if Lampard can get him right it would be a hell of a shame? Absolutely, it's obviously 26 I think in April coming to a stage in his career now where he needs consistent football and I think obviously that's what it looks like Everton can offer him. Frank Lampard, as you just said, first-paying and signing but looks like obviously Frank Lampard thinks that he can maybe build a team round them or be a very much a focal point for the way he wants to do things going forward with Everton and I think that's what as a player he's probably craving. You know as I say you go back two or three years, I think of when Tottenham came to Gullison at the end of 2018 and beat us 6-2 and how important played he was and Tottenham getting to the Champions League fan against Liverpool and how well he did and how big part of that he was playing off Harry Kane and the goals he'd get and some of the goals he scored himself. He's always in double figures and that's been lost and like you said there, Marino probably took that away from him, probably wanted someone who probably needed to work a little bit harder and sometimes with these players you do sacrifice a little bit of that hard work. I mean we had it with Kayle, people used to say well what does he do, he's not scoring goals. It's like we'll take him off the team and we'll find out and when he wasn't there suddenly you find there was a big gaping hole of a guy who could arrive late, score goals, working hard and I think for Deli Alley this represents now an opportunity for him to get back on track and he'll have the big picture in mind. The well cup is there. It feels like he's not necessarily part of that generation that is with England now but there's only one way of trying to get back into the picture and that's playing him well. Like you said there, it ain't going to kick in financially until next season so for us it represents really good business for spares they've got to play they don't want off their wage bill and hopefully he gets games, he makes a position his own and if he does the business we'll back him, we'll love him, we'll be happy to have him and hopefully that's what happens. Frank Llanparg has probably illustrated and spoke to him and said you're going to be a big part of what we do here and I think that will be important for the player. Yeah absolutely, I think if we can get him back doing that or he does become a focal point and wants to be part of it and feels like he's part of the team again and important that can give you that little impetus. Some players go style, they're clubs, it happens. He's done a fair well message to Tottenham and the only person he's really mentioned is Potatino because he felt like they went on that journey together and then when he left. You know there was talk Potatino wanted to take him to PSG and I kind of feel like if Potatino had gone to United in the summer he'd have come for him at spares because I think he'd probably look and think I can get him back to doing what he does. Goldscore in the field is so valuable, they really are, they're a prize commodity really in the game which made him so important for spares, kind of like you just mentioned for us. I think what seems to be evident on the outside is that since Potatino's left spares I've had very defensive minded managers who've come in. Maybe by the time Antonio Conti's got there it's too far gone, he just hasn't done what Conti's wanted him to do like up to speed or whatever. Maybe he's lost a little bit of love for the game, maybe he's lost a little bit, he's like lost his way so he's done all the things he did to get to where he was and everyone was talking about him and he was doing really well. He got to that stage and then the hard work stopped or he stopped enjoying it because he wasn't part of, he didn't feel like he was integral to the team or whatever. And I guess that'll be Lampard's biggest challenge, trying to bring that back on but it's up to the boy if he comes here and works his socks off and has that hunger and that determination to prove people wrong. He's 25 at the moment, going through a well cut this year, he'd be 26, it's a brilliant age to be on a well stage. He's got to do well for everything to get back into self-gauge plans and a fresh start and a manager who believes in it and a manager who did what you're really good at which was arriving late and scoring goals then you hope that he's able to bring it out. If you look at his appearance, they've completely dried up in the last two or three seasons to what he was playing, he was playing over 30 games a season, he was getting one in three goalscorer from midfielder, that's brilliant, getting into the box of having life and the goals have just dried up and it was when Pochettino went, it was when they made the change, in fact I think he scored against us in Pochettino's last game I think. So he scored in the 1-1, in fact he's the one who can't ball it, we didn't get the hand ball as well. So he's obviously instrumental, he scored the goal and then as you mentioned he'll close them out in the documentary and say she doesn't work hard enough and maybe that's where it started, the downfall started and maybe he didn't work hard enough but maybe someone telling him they're all different personalities. Yes, as a professional football we want them to work harder but maybe sometimes it's how you tell people they need to work harder and what we've seen this season is sometimes it's just opportunity as well. Look at Damari Gray, Damari Gray has come and played games, I think with Damari Gray, I think possibly beforehand when he's played and he hasn't necessarily faced you to say, if he gets in the side and has only maybe a couple of games and then doesn't have a good game then he goes out the side, where's this season? For us he's stayed in the side so there has been games where maybe he hasn't been brilliant but for the most part he's been good and he's scored goals and he's had assists and it might be the case with Deli Alley that he comes into the side and every game he might not be brilliant and maybe at Spares that will have cost him his place because they wanted people who worked harder and I'm not saying we have different standards at Spares, I don't think that at all. What I think is that there will be different ways of doing things at Everton which a manager like Frank Llanparth he might get the best at him and might understand his role in the team and can sympathise with what he needs to do and what he doesn't need to do and simplify for him and if he is put into a position that is his position and it's just for him and he doesn't have to crowbar him into the team like maybe he's had to do in the last couple of years at Spares then he'll thrive. It's an opportunity for him as well, it's a different, he's been at Milkington Keynes, he's been at Tottenham and now he's getting away from that, he's coming to a new environment, new club, completely different and we'll see how he gets on. We know people like Jordan Pickford from England, Michael Keynes was in the England set up at that time as well so he knows a couple of people there and obviously he's got Llanparth there. It's up to him, it's up to him isn't it? The opportunity is there now, you've got a manager who believes in him quite clearly. Maybe he just said everyone's different, maybe he needs to feel that the manager trusts him and that helps him play freely whereas if he's thinking he actually doesn't like me and at Spares he was really important under Potatino, it was him and Kane wasn't it? It was David a real threat I'll just stop then because Potatino did just totally believe in him so for him he probably went off feeling 10fts all every time he played and then the next minute he's gone and that unraveled very quickly and then the fella who you know trusts you and you really like goes, this other fella comes in who can be quite prickly the way Marino is and starts going, you're lazy, you don't do enough, are we going to get you back and you're thinking, I thought I was doing okay and then all of a sudden the self-dau comes in, mixed with maybe a bit like well did you not ask about me and I've got all the money, I don't care, kind of think. I don't know whether it is that, I'm just saying maybe and then all of a sudden it becomes a divide and it breaks away from what was really nice so for him he's got to try and get that back, he's a talented lad. You know he made his debut at 16 for MK Don's, you know by 18 he'd gone off the spares and I think he bought him originally for him to try and develop and he was the guy in there at 18 and straight away he was fantastic and for a while it was just like I want to play. We hit the brick wall and Evan and Lampard have gone in and Lampard basically took, it's a risk, it's a calculator risk but it's also a huge kind of display of trust to make him your first permanent signing when things aren't going great for him. You know and you're always judged by your signings, that new club signing you when you first go in but he obviously looks and thinks well this lad's got quality, we can get it out of him, he'd be one of our best players, can I get it out of him? He's got goals, we don't score enough goals, he will, he'll add goals. Lampard said he's watched loads of Evan over the last few weeks as obviously knew the job might come up and he was interested and then when it did come up he's been going back watching the games and had a look at what he needs. Anyone watches us, it's nothing we haven't seen, there's no goals in this team. You know we're only just getting rich all of us from back after injury and Dominic Halberloo from back after injury. Who else without Damari Gray who's getting goals, this is a lad who you just said early on was getting one in three and you only have to look at his stats and it'll show you that. Let's just look at his numbers. He's 25, he's born obviously Milton Keynes that we play for first, he filled club career goals 73, he's had 37 caps for England and scored three international goals including a goal. I put England into the World Cup semi-final, quarter-final win it. So a lad nat Tony, just over three and a half years ago he was integral to that England side when he was 22 and he's 25 and you just said that at the moment the team's miles are right in being involved in an England squad and yeah he's got the potential to get back in there. I just think that there's definite similarities between where he was with Pochettino and where he is now and hopefully we can use that. He was Pochettino built an attack between him and Keynes and it thrived and obviously if he can do similar with Dominic Halberloo, because when you look at him, when you look at any of our plays you have to ask the question what have you done for us? Look where we are, the manager's going to come in and he's got, he'll look at all the plays and say well who can honestly stand up and say he's done brilliant this season and a couple of them can maybe put their hands up and think that but it's not always, it's not always you know the evidence what people think. I think he's had a good season. I don't think any of the backfork can say. Yeah he means he's not being fit. None of the others can go well. I've been good because the evidence. I think he's getting into my field and Alan and another one in and out being injured and being great. The core has been good. I think Gray and Tramson have been excellent after that. I think Gray has had nothing to say. Well Tramson's been decent Tramson sorry. He's been better than what I thought that's what I'm saying now. I think Gray's been our best player. There's no question. And I'd say recently Anthony Gordon's been a shine on the light. The rest have all been injured or below par. So no one could turn on and go you're dropping me because you're putting him in. There's barely been any consistency out of any of the players. So no one can par from Damari Gray but then Damari Gray's position in the team might become void because if we play with fullbacks who are our wit. But he does. But he can play. The position he's been playing in could very much change. So the manager might look at it and go well that position was yours but now there's actually because I've changed the way the positions are there's actually two or three. He's gone for that position now. So you have to. But that's it. That's what happened to your new manager. That's fine. We as fans shouldn't worry about that. We as fans should be saying going good. There's now a couple of positions where we do have two or three players fighting out for that position. I think Gray will thrive on the lampard as well because I think he can play as a wide forward with the lampard as all coming in narrow because he naturally likes to run with the ball. He's got a shot on him. But you're right. It throws up that thing if no one's guaranteed which is good. And because he's a different type of manager we will play different ways and that makes me at Damari Gray or a betalis and sits on the bench. It's going to be interesting but it does feel like Deliarty's going to be a big part of his plans. It's a big sign now and people are saying it's a big sign because it's crap or he's done this or he's done that. You look at Sky Sports News and all that kind. That was the number one thing. It's a big move because this is one of the players who was seen as a big shine and light of English football who's drifted off and people are interested to see where they can come back. And this is like, you go to the likes of America, this reaction is a big thing, like a big story. You all want them to get back. I think a lot of people do want them to get back. I think Stan Cully more shine. It's a brilliant move for them. Paul Mason said of everything. Get them right. He's the sign of the season. Forget the wind up. The sign of the season. Harry Redknapp saying just if the lampard, the one who will tease it back out of him and Evan are going to have a gem on their hands and Spears are going to kick themselves. For Spears' point of view, they're not going to kick themselves because he's not doing it for them. So you may as well get some return. They're moving in a different way, aren't they? They've got Culeveski coming in and people like that. They're moving on, which is exactly what you should do. No one went to move a player on if it's not working on your go. But we've got to look at it from our point of view and say it's a good show. Let's see how it plays out. Hopefully it wakes up really well and we have to end up paying a lot more for the player than we will do in the initial part. We have to pay the maximum for it. I really do because it means we're good and he's done well. If we pay stage by stage and it's on an issue anyway, is it? There you go. Let us know your thoughts on Deli Ali signing for Everton. 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