 Hello everybody, you're watching the Everton show on YouTube and by the way as always please feel free to leave your comments below. As you can see we're at the training complex here at USM Finch Farm which has been transferred deadline week this week and this guy has joined us, Nikola Vlasys. Nikola, welcomes at Everton, you're happy to be here? Thank you, I'm very excited to be and this is a bigthud. We're very excited to have you. Let's have a look at Nikola's first day as an Everton player. Nikola what are your first impressions of the training ground? I can hear it's I can see it's a big club now everything is so high level everything is on place now I made people that are very nice to me I didn't make the players because they are not here yet but I'm happy to meet them in the future and it's I don't know I'm so impressed about everton club and I'm so excited and I can't wait to start training and play games. You haven't met the players yet at Finch Farm but you've played against them already this season. What were your impressions of everton when had you played us in the Europa League? Yeah we play first game here in Liverpool and we play against them and you know you already feel what players are there and it was a so good experience you know I feel the fans I feel the feel close to the fans you know it was amazing and yeah but it's different you know I've been out there we've been now my teammates and I'm very excited to meet them or as a person. I'm very excited to play at Gooderson Park or home stadium? Yeah all the stadium in England and I'm very excited. You're still a young man still a young footballer but have you always wanted to play in the English Premier League? Yeah since I started playing I always watched you know games from the league and it was my dream and now it's come true and the dream of everybody is to play in England. It's a big move for a young player to leave his homeland and come over to England. When did you first find out that Everton wanted to sign you? Yeah but I'm prepared you know for that and after the first game it was some speculations you know but after the second game it started to be real and when I heard about the interest of Everton you know it was some other clubs but no big clubs as Everton and I when I heard about I only wanted to go in Everton. What type of player are you? I'm a type of player who wants to play football you know I want to play the ball, I want to move a lot to ask the ball and I like to dribble also and I think the fans will enjoy it. You've scored a few goals already this season haven't you back in Croatia? Yeah but now I want to start scoring family. When did you start to play football Michela when you were a small boy? Yeah I was a small boy as I can remember you know father always say that I started you know from four years but no I'm in football all my life and when you dream or something when you are young and it's finally coming true so it's a very good feeling you know. And your father has always been involved in sport hasn't he? Yeah he's always been involved you know I have a sister too she's Van Kala she's world athletic high jump and she was world champion and my father you know he's from when I was a boy he was always with me we have a very special connection and he helped me a lot. And he said you scored 30,000 goals? Yeah when I was younger but then you know it was so easy to score 10 goals for a match you know but it's good. You were at Hajjuk Split alone time is it difficult to leave your friends behind? Yeah it's difficult but they all prepared you know I speak with them and they know what is life and they know how happy I am and they are happy too. And Ronald Cooman of course has a well-known name in the world of football he was a superstar as a player so I suppose Ronald Cooman was a big influence on your decision to come to Everton? Of course when a manager like that and an ex-player like that wants you to come in Everton to be under his training programme you cannot deny that. And are you aware of the Croatian relationship we've had over the years with Nikicie Jelovic and Slavin Bilic at Everton? Yeah I know that I will make contact with them to ask a little bit more. Just talking about international football coming to Everton and playing in the Premier League regularly we hope in the Premier League that will help your chances at international level with Croatia? Yeah I hope but you know there is a lot of great players like Modus, like Archivich Manjukic and I think if I play good in Premier League, if I play good at Everton I will get my chance. What's the plan then for the next few days? What have you got to sort out? Yeah I need to come back to play to pick up my stuff to say goodbye to everybody and come here to find a house and place to play and take a car or something like that. But that is all small stuff I really enjoy it to do because I am finally in Premier League. You're just looking at it as a big wonderful experience aren't you? Yeah of course it's more than an experience, it's now my life and I will need two more days, three more days to see that it's real. And the weather, the sunshine is not too bad, it's not as warm as split but it's nice. It's nice, it's raining then sun and then you know it's nice. Better get used to the rain by the way. Well that was Nicola Vlasic there, one of a plethora of new faces who have already driven through the gates here at USM Finch Farm this summer. Another new face of course was Sandro Ramírez but his early days here at Everton were somewhat disrupted by injury. However the boy is now back to full fitness and has he told us after the Chelsea game he's determined to show the Evertonians just what he's all about. We knew he was going to be a tough afternoon, we played against a very tough opponent with very good individualities. But the team kept fighting until the end and we couldn't get any point but we kept the fight right until the end. You seem to settle into Everton very very well, you do well in the Europa League games, you play well in your first Premier League game against Stokes. How frustrating was it that you then had to miss out for two weeks? Yeah it was frustrating because I was out, it happened already at the beginning of the game against Stokes so it made me, I couldn't play 100% of myself on that game. But now I just look forward for these two weeks off to work very hard and now I am feeling 100% and to work very hard to be ready for the Spurs game. You've only played two matches in the Premier League so it's very early days but what are the main differences you're finding between Premier League football and what you were used to in Spain? I think there's a lot of differences but mainly the Premier League is a little bit less tactical but much more intense. They close down very quickly, you don't have that time on the ball. In Spain it's more like a possession base and more tactical and that for me is the main difference between both leagues. Do you enjoy those differences because you're a physical fast player, like to run about a lot, like to put in a lot of challenges so does it suit you? It's early days to speak but that's one of the reasons I came here. I think the Premier League should make characteristics to make these runs in behind, attack the spaces and I think it fits me but as I say it's too early to judge because it's only two games. And like you say it is still very early but how are you finding life at Everton and how are you like the supporters here? Very good, very good with the team mates, with the club, with the technical staff, very good with the fans, very, very good. We always feel the support from them even when things don't go right so overall very, very good. Everyone is helping me to settle very, very quickly. That was Sandro Ramirez there, clearly determined to make a big impression at Everton Football Club and as we've already alluded to he's just one of many new faces in this transfer window for Everton Football Club. Let's remind ourselves of all the others and I'll see you very shortly for part two. Welcome back to part two of this week's Everton show. As you can see I'm joined here at USM Finch Farn by the diamond Graeme Stewart. Transfer deadline date yesterday, Graeme. It doesn't seem to generate the excitement around the Premier League that it used to. No, you're right actually. I mean I think most of the clubs nowadays just try and get their business done and dusted as quickly as they can. Get their players as we have done in for the pre-season so everybody beds down and settles in. Obviously there's always a little bit of last minute rolling of the dice as it were but unfortunately I don't particularly agree with it if I'm totally honest with you. I was actually listening to Simon Jordan on Talk Sport in my car yesterday and he said to me why do we shut it? Don't just leave it open because there's all kinds of different elements. I mean we talk about player power and bits and pieces like that. If there's not a deadline the player can't put any pressure on the club to sell them and vice versa. I think what he said was really quite interesting and something that needs looking at. Of course the Spanish deadline extends for the further 24 hours so should they desire things just come over and pick what they want. I know, it's a crazy situation. I know everything doesn't quite fall in line across Europe and there's reasons behind it but I'd like to see it revamped if I'm honest with you. Deadline day might have been relatively quiet for Everton Football Club but that's because as you've alluded to we'd already brought eight players in anyway. And good players as well and I think that was behind Ronald and Steve Walsh's thinking to get players in as we mentioned before for pre-season to go on the pre-season trips because that's important as well to bed in and to get used to your teammates not only on a football field but off it as well. So I think we're all pretty reasonably happy about the business that has been done so far. Way back in the day when Everton Football Club and the great Howard Kendall swooped for Graham Stewart from Chelsea. You missed out on the pre-season trips, you missed out on the pre-season training so was there a little bit of catch up? Yeah there was, I'll be honest with you there was. I mean I'd been in and out of bits and pieces especially games at Chelsea. So whilst I'd done all the pre-season running I hadn't really played any football so I came to Everton and not really matched fit and to get that back playing Premier League footballs tough so that explains my slow start. It turned into a terrific bit of business, money well spent. Right one of the popular features, the many popular features of the Everton show this season is what we call My Firsts this week it's the turn of the skipper. This is Phil Jagielke. My first car was a Renault Clio 1.4 Dynamique and I had it for a little while. It came with a years free insurance so that was an added bonus. Difficult my own first boots, probably a pair of Puma King. Obviously black leather ones back in the day, there was no bright ones. Pobinba brother, I've said that before, five years older so always wanted to do what he did and he was obviously pretty good. So he was just chasing him around, following him around but he got a bit annoying for him but that's where the mumies and I play football today. Hamster died on my birthday so that's never a good thing is it? Gizmo, there you go. We played someone like Carl Isle away in the youth team and it was so cold and so wet. So I took my boots off half time just to get some feeling back in my toes. Off to the manager, Russell Slade, the manager came in obviously not happy I think we were losing. He's asked me not very politely if I want to go back out again because I've took my boots off. There's a few expletives in there so obviously I've panicked. Just chucked me boots on as quick as I could and ran out for the second half. I had Nick Montgomery once but he didn't like the way I breath quite deep in my sleep and he's a very fussy sleeper. So every so often he'd literally hit me over the head with a pillow, wake me up just to stop me from breathing so we quickly changed the roomies. When you bring so many new faces into a football club I would imagine people like Phil Jagielka are worth their weight in gold on and off the pitch. Yeah of course they are, Phil's been brilliant for us for a number of years now at the football club. Terrific captain, reliable defender alongside Leighton Baines as well, another stalwart of the football club and as you mentioned Darren when you bring new faces into the football club what better people to have alongside you than Phil Jagielka and Leighton Baines in the dressing room. Sometimes you just can't beat the old guard can you? Dad's armour. You can't beat a good old and that's the truth. Well it's been a good week for the youngins as well at Everton Football Club, both Everton under 23s and the under 18s have recorded excellent victories in the last seven days. So we'll start with the under 23s at Chelsea, that's a terrific win grain. It's a bit of a new luck team for Dave Runsworth this year because of the players who are out on loan but any sort of victory at Chelsea is not to be sniffed at. Well it certainly is, terrific ball in from Walshiedair and great start to the evening with a helping hand from the Chelsea defender there. Puts it in the back of the net and Walshiedair heavily involved again, rolls the ball back to little Benny. He buries it to make it 2-0 when we're on our way and we were at the corresponding fixture last season Darren that ended 2-2 and it was a brilliant game of football, possibly the best game I'd seen last season. And then we just wrapped it up there with a third goal as well so a dream night for the under 23s. Little Walshiedair played well again didn't he? He did yeah, he's a terrific young player Walshiedair, there's no doubt about it. He's had his injuries but every time we see him he never lets us down. The under 18s, even better, they put seven goals past West Brom. Yeah and off the back of a difficult start to the game where we went 1-0 down but we got ourselves an equaliser to make it 1-1. That's a good old fashioned centre forward there isn't it? Yeah of course it is, I mean that's what we want Fraser Formbyd that just gets a good header on it there and then it's 1-1 at half time and all of a sudden the flood gate's open and off we go start scoring goals left right centre. Paul Tate must have been delighted with the response because it's sad as you say as we've seen when to go down and then to come back before the break and then rattling six in the second half. Of course yeah I mean you know it's brilliant for Tatey and the lads there because it shows the character to you know take a little bit of a set back, get themselves back into the game and then obviously we see Anthony Gordon especially second half you know he gets himself plenty of goals and then all of a sudden we end up with a terrific victory and that's really really good to see and that'll give the lads a major confidence boost going forward. At any level of the game I like to see the goal scorers take the penalties? Yeah and I totally agree with you and it drives me insane you ever watch a penalty shoot out? I mean I think there was one a couple of weeks away where the goalkeeper took a penalty and I'm thinking to myself as a centre forward surely it's a golden opportunity for you to score goals. 7-1 victory, the under 18s I suppose will have a little bit of a change side themselves because by the natural order of progression some of their boys, Tatey's boys will have moved up into UNZ squad. Yeah but that's what's going to happen I mean and we don't want to discourage that because if you're good enough you're old enough. Little Benny for example is one of the ones who played plenty of under 23 football last year so it will gain from that experience. He'll be a big player Benny Benninghaming, well a big player last season and somebody who else has hit the ground running up the start of this season was Liam Walsh, he's had a terrific start to the campaign so much so he's been lured away to Birmingham City on loan but before he went we sat down with Little Walsh at USM Finch Farms to chat about his recovery from the injury that wrecked this summer. Yeah it's been a long time being injured, you know being off the pitch I'm getting stressed for the times but I think it happens to those players and it's just you know it depends on how you come back from it, you've got to come back stronger and my first two games have gone out in 78 minutes and in 90 minutes so feeling much fit again and feels good to be back playing. Bit of stiffness after all that time out? Yeah after the first games I think it took about a week or something and after getting you today you know that took a couple of days but you're back in training today and feel good. Like you say it's part and parcel of football everybody gets injured at some point but it's mentally as well as physically tough isn't it, to be out so long? Yeah definitely all you want to do is just play football you know when with the injury stopping you how you go about things is a lot differently you've got to be a lot more professional I think the training that you do while she's injured is a lot more important than while she's fit because you know when you come back you've got to come back stronger and it's hard to play to come back from injury and be the same player but if you keep on top of your work then I'm sure you'll do well. Was the large periods when you had to just do repetitive stuff coming in and do the same thing day in and day out? Yeah especially through the summer and seeing everyone going on their holidays and I had to come in week in week out every day just doing some work on my own just with the fitness cultures and the odd times where I felt like giving up but I think the physios have helped me a lot and I had to set back but I'm not going to trying to dwell on that too much but just as long as I'm playing football I'm starting to gain something I'll be happy. Good luck to Liam Walsher Birmingham City I know a few Birmingham City fans by the way and they'll thoroughly enjoy having Liam Walsher on board and good luck to Callum Connoly as well as he starts his loan period at Ipswich Town but the big football news of the weekend is the dramatic comeback of Graham Stewart. Alongside a good few else I'm telling you. This of course is Sunday afternoon the Bradley Lowry game at Goodison Park. Yeah I'm looking forward to it. It's a terrific occasion and a wonderful gesture by the football club as well. Both football clubs coming together for young Bradley who tragically lost his life so it'll be a good afternoon get out come and see some of the older players a little bit rounder these days as well but no I'm looking forward to it. Are you looking forward to it or are you dreading it? I'm looking forward to it. I mean I was on a tour last night at Goodison and just walking down that tunnel I was saying to the young players, the graduates who are coming through saying look every single time I walk down this tunnel the hairs on the back of your neck stick up and the Zed cars was on and everything like that so you know the chance you get to play at Goodison Park you know take it on board. Peter read your gaffer. He's ably assisted by Snods but what about yourself Graham any special pre-match preparations? Yeah I've had to think about it and I'm going to stay in Saturday night though. Does Snods know? I'm interested in it. I find that very difficult to believe but pop along anyway to the Bradley Lowry benefit game on Sunday afternoons for a great cause and that's just about it for this week's programme thank you very much for tuning in my thanks to Diamond and to Nicola Vlasic please do join us for another Everton show in seven days time.