 Welcome to Toffy TV, it is the Everton News daily. Rich Welsh has agreed a new four year deal with Everton. That takes him through to 2026. The young defender who has been at Everton since the age of seven made his first team debut last season coming on as a late substitute in the 2-0 home win over Boreham Wood in the FA Cup and made his first full start for the first team in Everton's 1-0 Carabao Cwm. He is a big imposing centre back, lots of talent. The club are really great and really highly. Seems to have all the attributes that could go on to be a real good first team defender for Everton. Still got a long way to go obviously. He has been training in part of Frank Llanpart's first team squad, training since the back end of last season and all summer and then obviously into this season as well. He has got a chance. It will be interesting to see what happens now. I think had Jerry Meaner and Ben Goffrey not suffered injuries, long term injuries, I think maybe Everton would have allowed them to go out on loan this season. That may well still be the case come the January transfer window. You may see him go out on loan for the remainder of the season but right now he is in Everton's first team squad. He is training with the players every single day. He said he was absolutely delighted to sign in your four year deal. Being at the club since he was seven, praised the coaching of Frank Llanpart, praised Ashley Cole's input as well and then said learning off Connor Cody and James Tarkovsky seeing them every day is contributing to his all round education in the game. The way Connor Cody and James Tarkovsky are playing at the moment is a fantastic example for a young player to learn. If he can get anything off them in terms of how they conduct themselves and training every day, how they are on the pitch, the way they defend, then if he can use that as well as the stuff he will be getting off the likes of Ashley Cole, then with the physical attributes he could go far in the game. Good luck to him. Kevin Thelwell said that it was a reward for Reese's hard work. The new contract says that he was all part of trying to create this clear pathway for talented players in Everton's academy right the way through to the first team. That's what we're building towards and the contract for Reese's Welsh is a fair example of that. Good luck and congratulations to Reese's Welsh. Frank Llanpart has praised midfielder Alex Awobi following another exciting display from the Nigerian international on Saturday in Everton's 2-1 win at St Mary's. Awobi had another assist providing the cross for Dwight McNeill's winning goal. A captain of that all round, explosive display was all over the pitch. He's really, since moving into the centre of the park, he's put in some tremendous performances. Obviously he got into the team and Llanpart tried them there late on last season and he done really well, still playing in other positions as well, ended up playing right wing back. They didn't need by the end of the season but he's come back in the summit, got his head down and has became a centre midfielder and has done really, really well. Llanpart has praised his work ethic, said every day in training, he's low maintenance, he comes in, he puts everything in, sets examples as well and went on to admit that he wouldn't have liked playing against Awobi due to that energetic style and the fact that he can go both ways with the ball and is a box to box player so it would have been difficult to keep track of. But it's a brilliant story really of Awobi's going from a player who was on the periphery and certainly in supporters minds was a sub at best and now every supporter, I'm quite sure he's one of the first names on the team sheet now in every supporters minds. So that's a brilliant turn around and long making, he looks happy, he looks confident, he looks like he's really settled now, he's providing goals which is fantastic just if he could get a few goals himself that would cap what has been a tremendous turn and so hopefully he can add those goals to his games. Evan have today announced that they've extended their kit deal with Hummel for another year, their contract with Hummel was due to finish next summer in 2023 but they've now extended it by another 12 months to finish in the summer of 2024, which is obviously when Evan had due to move into their new stadium than a Bromley Mawd doch, that falls in line with a couple of other commercial deals as well which are also due to finish that summer. So obviously there'll be a lot built around moving into the new stadium and Evan will have the opportunity to renew these deals with the sponsors or to get more lucrative deals and as we obviously commercially we become a more commercially attractive product certainly by being city centre down by the river and all of that stuff and everything that a new stadium brings as well but it's a sensible move really by Evan to extend that by another 12 months. Right now in the financial world there's a lot going on, obviously the pounds struggling and people who have more money might not have as much money now these companies to spend and to give the deal to pay Evan for that kind of retail space on the front of the sheat and everything else so that's the news that's come out today that it is a 12 month extension so there you go. And finally Evan under 21s are in action tonight in the EFL, Papa John's Trophy, they play Harrogate Town, if you are an Evan member or a season ticker holder you can watch the game live that kicks off right now on Evan's channel so if that's what you are one of those two people get over there and you get the chance to watch the young blues taking on Harrogate tonight. That is it for the news daily give the video a thumbs up, subscribe if you haven't and if you want to become a Trophy TV Premier member click the QR code on screen or click the link in the description. See you later.