 Welcome to ToffeeTV, my name is Cameron. I'm here to do a little bit of an Academy report for you today. We're gonna sit down, we're gonna look at evidence under 18s and their current form as well as the under 23s and then we might have a little bit of a discussion surrounding Usine and Ben Gottfried towards the end of the video as well. So evidence under 18s are currently in absolutely flying form. They're first in their league, played four games, won three and drawn won, be Bayley 3-2 last time out of fantastic, fantastic performance thanks to a late penalty from Thomas Christopher Cannon and then to a small bag and two late goals and it was the 89th minute and the 92nd minute or something like that for everything to win by three goals to two. They play E-League United on Saturday the 17th and then the mini Mayday side Derby will be the week after so that's definitely, definitely one to look out for. They're in really, really good form at the moment, absolutely flying at the top of the league exactly like the first team, taking what the first team are doing and replicating it into the Academy levels. They're being in fantastic form like I said four games played, three wins and just a one draw undefeated as well which is obviously fantastic to see. Definitely, definitely keep an eye on the under 18s. Look these are the players that obviously you know a lot of Evertonians like to look at, same with the under 23s as well as you know players that we may see in the first team you know in the future and it's exciting to see you know the Academy sides playing and have a little look at those players and see you know which of them have got that little bit about them that could potentially you know make them into a Premier League footballer in years to come and ultimately that's the goal isn't it when you look at your Academy teams, when you look at your Academy the goal is that eventually these players will become Premier League footballers forever and others you know there's not much point in keeping them at the football club you look to move them on then and so in looking at the under 18s and the under 23s and you know other Academy levels you're looking for the future stars really and you're looking for players that you can think right okay within the next three or four years maybe a couple of loan spells you'll be able to step into that first team and you know mix it up in the Premier League and obviously it's quite difficult to tell at under 18 level whether or not the players that are playing in the Academy will be able to do that because it's still a long long way to go and it's still a massive jump but it is good to see the under 18s on such great form onto under 23s then they're currently sixth in their league they have played for 1-2 and lost to Ella Sims has been an absolutely emphatic form however he has scored four goals in his past three games he's been absolutely brilliant I think Ella Sims is a player that with all sorts of looking at now is to think what's the next step for Ella Sims you know 19 years old hasn't really been involved in the first team he's had a couple of you know games where he's been on the bench I think he's come on in the odd game as well and had the last sort of five or ten minutes certainly in the friendlies but he's never really had that opportunity in the Premier League and he's had an age now where you know I think football club needs to be looking and thinking right okay what is the next step for you because the last thing we want for Ella Sims is him to just be playing in the under 23s for the next two or three four years and then ultimately he gets to that age where you look at him and you go well you're not you know you're at that age now where you should be playing week in week out in the Premier League but you're not playing week out week in and week out in the Premier League so we're good enough to move it on because he has a very very very talented young player very very good young player you know haven't done 20 these lost to wanton Manchester City last time I was Ella Sims scored in that game but yeah like I said for me he's a player he's had an age now where the club needs to look at him you know David Unsworth said a couple of weeks ago that he will be at the club until at least January maybe they'll look to loan him out then then when he comes back the view of involving him in the first team obviously it's interesting with Ella Sims at the moment because we've had Moise Keane go out on loan to PSG we've had Theo Walcott go out on loan to Southampton so we're currently sitting here now talking about the first team and we've got obviously Dominic Calvert-Lewan who's on absolutely unbelievable form we've got Rashalus and who's on fantastic form as well but if either of those two get injured or if Dom gets injured then Carlo Ancelotti wants to keep Rashalus and playing on the wing then you sorted looking and thinking well who's the player that comes in and slots into replace Dominic Calvert-Lewan if need be who's the natural striker replacement and the reality of the situation is we haven't got one at the moment and you know it would have been Moise Keane and not saying Moise Keane would be able to step in and do his good the job there's Dominic Calvert-Lewan because he wouldn't have been able to do that he'd proven that before but you know I think Ella Sims is the one that people you know fans sort of look at and think well why not put him in there why not give him a go why not see if he can do it why not see if he can step up and perform on the Premier League stage and I think like I said he's at that age now where I think the club need to be looking at him going right okay maybe keep him in the under 23s for the remainder of this season maybe even loan him out in January but from next season onwards his plan really needs to be to sort of the view of getting into that first team because he's a very very talented young player he was scoring goals for fun at under 18s levels he was scoring at 6-9 every week he's scoring goals for fun at under 23 level as well and the only way we're going to be able to determine whether or not he can step in and play you know to that level of performance in the Premier League and playing the first team and continue to score goals for fun in the first team is if he's given that opportunity to do that so it'll be really really interesting to see how Ellis Sims is future of the Leventon Football Club and how that sort of plays out. Everton under 23s did sign new midfielder Iman Janyay who is coming from Hakan a very very good midfielder song player really really looks like one for the future definitely a player to look out for as well somebody that I think would be really really exciting to play in that under 23s midfield somebody that I think can definitely mix it open and hopefully again the viewers that he comes in plays in that under 23s for you know a season season and a half and then maybe looks to go out on loan with the with the plan to be in playing in the first team in the future obviously we brought in Nalsen Kungu in the summer I think the original plan for Nalsen Kungu was that he'd go in to the under 23s and play the initial season there but of course you know due to the you know the left back situation with Leighton Baines retiring and Luka Deen being the only left back at the club first team left back Nalsen Kungu was of course slotted in there and played in the Carabao Cup games and played absolutely fantastically. Iman Janyay looks a fantastic fantastic player very very good midfielder like I said can mix it up there and I can't wait to see him playing for the under 23s in the future like I mentioned last result wasn't a positive one lost 2-1 to Manchester City but he did beat Derby County 4-1 the week before that's some fantastic talent and players in there we know obviously Callum Connolly again another player that I think a lot of Evertownians will be looking out for due to the fact that you know our right back situation at the moment isn't quite solid you've got John Joe Kenyue of course is injured at the moment Sheamus Coleman who picked up an injury last time out as well Josh Bowlers in there as well Nathan Broadhead so we've got a couple of names in there that I think you know a lot of Evertownians will be familiar with because they've been in and around the first team certainly in preseason fixtures and they're playing well in the under 23s and like I said there may be opportunities this season for the likes of a Callum Connolly or potentially even an Ellison's to you know to break through to the first team if Callum and Shloty decides to do that so currently sitting sixth in the league like I said played for 1-2 lost 2 and so not the greatest that run a form but decent nevertheless a couple of big wins like I mentioned that one against Derby County the game prior to the Manchester City defeat and I want to talk a little bit about Ben Golfrey as well before we finish the video of course Evertown signed 22 year old centre back Ben Golfrey from Noddage City on deadline day we knew this one was going to happen it had been rumoured for quite some time now and I think he's a fantastic fantastic fantastic player really really good and defend that very strong very physical very versatile player I've said this a couple of times when talking about Ben Golfrey Carlo and Shloty has made it quite apparent over the last sort of few months that the size of the current squadron football club isn't you know it isn't what it wants it needs to be you know we think we've currently got 30 35 players first team players and Carlo and Shloty wants to narrow that down to around about 20 23 players and in order to do that you really really do need players that are face-to-tile that can play in different positions and obviously Ben Golfrey's coming in he can play at centre back he's played a full back before in his career as well he can play at central defensive midfield played there for Shrewsbury and was absolutely fantastic in his loan at Shrewsbury I do think that Carlo and Shloty brought him in for the sole papers that he becomes a centre half and he works at master in that position but it's good to know that if he ever needs to move up into midfield for example or if he ever needs to cover a full back then there's the potential that he could do that it's better to have him play as that a face-to-tile and that can play in various different positions rather than having players that can only play in one position and if you know if they're not there then they're pretty much useless in the team obviously Golfrey can play in the centre of that midfield we've seen him at knowledge last season scored a fantastic goal against Leicester I believe it was really strong really physical gets himself about throws his head into dangerous positions as well isn't afraid to throw himself into dangerous positions we saw his mentality we saw his ambition we saw his attitude of cubilitar for knowledge last season there was a clip that I'm sure a lot of you have seen on social media where he is literally the most forward knowledge player and he runs the whole length of the pitch to tackle an opposition player who's right to do the rent of the pitch and he was about to score and you know he could have stood there and said no you know what there's five or six of me teammates in front of me so I'm not gonna bother but he doesn't he gets his head up and he runs and he makes the tackle the last this tackle at the other end of the pitch it's that type of enthusiasm it's that type of attitude it's that type of willingness to win the ball back that you want at Everton Football Club and Ben Goffy looks a fantastic young player and a brilliant sign and for the club you know 20 million pounds plus add-ons which you know could end up to be a steal don't quite know where he fits in initially don't quite know where he fits in you know and straight away obviously you've got Michael Keane who's in fantastic form you've got Yeti Mina who's in fantastic form at the moment and you know you've got Mason Hoagie to come back from injury you've got Chadda Brantway to come back from injury so it's going to be interesting to see where Carlo Ancelotti fits Ben Goffy into the side and but I definitely think he'll get a lot of game time this season and he certainly is a player for the future so there you go that is the academy report and a little bit of conversation on Ben 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