 Welcome to Toffy TV, joined by Andy. We're going to talk about this man, Rich Charleson, in goalscoring form for Brazil this week. Before we do this video, it's sponsored by one football app that keeps you up to date with the latest scores. Transfer rooms and stats, all in one place at the moment. Click the link. Rich Charleson, back amongst the goals. Listen, I know it's been Qatar and I know it's been a 10 man hand yours. However, he's scored, he's assisting both games as well. It was just something, I think we had that little bit of a chat about the shot camera last week, you were talking about his natural position. Now, he's played on the left when we got him, done a good job, played through the middle, done a decent job for us, and played on the right, and done a very good job for us. I put this on Twitter, meaning you were going to have this conversation and people were like, didn't even play up front, and now we didn't play it on the right. It's where he scores from. The positions that he takes up is what the conversation is. So, Rich Charleson, good season, 13 Premier League goals. 21, 22-year-old player, that's really good. That's a great starting point. If you look at Rich Charleson, you go, he's not the complete player. He obviously is a bore. People can score good, have many goals in a season at that age. There's not many people who can come into the Premier League and do that. So that's obviously got natural ability. He still needs to round things out in this game. Obviously, I've had conversations with many people up with Charleson. He's goal-scoring. It's instinctive, the positions he takes up. And this is why we'll be getting on to what the bit is positioning. When he's out wide, though, his passing still needs work. I'm not going to criticise him, but he still needs to work. He needs to work on his passing, his crossing, and he's going to stay as a winger. But most of his goals, I watched all of his goals again last night. And apart from the one up right when he clipped it round to Duffy and ran on to it. And the goal when he first came in against Wolves where he edged the box. All of them inside the box. He's standing centrally inside the box. Now, as some people say, whether that's because he's coming in off the right wing or the left wing. Potentially, but he's just got this knack in the box. And if you could closely get him to goal, the more likely he is to score. Like I was looking last night and I know people don't love stats, but he averages more shots when he's out wide. But he plays more, to be honest, when he's out wide. So he just used the figures. But shots on target, and there's sort of XG. I know people don't like XG. It's expect the goals, but it's an expectation of where you're going to score from. The pretty similar when he plays centrally. And the accuracy when he plays centrally is much better than when it's out wide. Because I'm guessing he's not taking any specules of shots when he's cutting on his right foot. But I think he'll play centrally main. I really do. I think if you've got the right system. I mentioned this last week, I think about, you know, with Guilfee behind, it draws the midfield deeper. So there's not enough space. And whereas teams you play 4-3-3, there's a space for a number nine to drop into and then we're at the defender. So it all depends on system. But I think if you brought in, like people say Dave and Dennis or Malcolm to play on the right. You have Bernard on the left and you have Richard on the centre. That's an option, especially away from home when teams are going to be a bit further out. There's a bit more space in behind. With his pace, it could be an asset really. I mean, Marco Silva, when he brought him in, he said he could play a front three. I think he can. He said he can play anywhere across the front three, which he's proved. I think four or five goals last season centrally. I think one of them was the bear in the game. Boxing day, New Year's Day, whichever one it was. Boxing day. It came on as a seven-play centrally. I think that counts as one. But you have five goals from centrals. That's a good return in 12 games. So he is capable of playing there. Obviously I understand that people want someone who can, like Calvert Lou, who can hold the ball up, which Charles is still working on. But it's just horses for course. And since that different look, you can play different ways and it'd be effective. You don't have to play like that big strike on a front all the time. You can play someone smaller and more quick, like with Charles. And the closer you have them to go, like Brazil, every time a place for Brazil, cost comes in, he's in the middle. He finds space to get the shot off us and score. That's what we need. I mean, there were two different goals as well. I think that against Qatar, keep a good answer, possibly could have done better, but it was a good idea. And his goal yesterday, he was right in the middle of the 6-yard box. Just take great positions. Just instinctive, yeah. And that's what I look for as a centre forward. You look for what positions and what areas strikers are taking up in the box. A lot of it is instinctive of being in the right place at the right time. I always quote his goal against Chelsea at home. It's a reaction. He makes a great save and he's there to let it in. Everyone has a stand and still. The instinctive of a good centre forward. And I look at Dom, and Dom is much better at holding the ball up. Oh, his all-round plays great, yeah. Better in the air. You know, works really hard. Dom's great and he's getting better all the time. But I think that Charleston is naturally a better goal scorer. Oh, he is, yeah. He takes up instinctive positions. He trips into the right position. He's in the right area of ball coming in. He probably, if you asked him, he wouldn't know why he was in that position, but he's just there in it in the net. Well, yeah, when you watch us, you look at them and you watch them and you think, make that on there. He's instinctive. He's gravitative. He's there all the way. Sometimes Calvert-Lewin's watching the ball or he's waiting for a defender to make a move before he makes his move. It's not as instinctive, yeah. I think the thing with Everton and Evertonians, as well, as we are used to that sort of Calvert-Lewin-type striker, he is. We're not really used to somewhere like with Charleston playing in the front. He was smaller. Offers a bit more pace. We've been lucky to have players of more Calvert-Lewin's type. We've been good for us and obviously with Charleston's. But the football's changed when you look at other teams. Gwyrdwys, Wath-5-4-8, Wath-5-4-9. I don't know if Charleston's much taller than that. But that type of player who can stretch defences, make them work. You know, open up spaces for Guilfee as well. We need someone who can put the ball on the back of the net, but we also need creativity on the side. If you have Charleston on the wing, it's as good as he is on the wing. He isn't really that creative, let's be honest. He doesn't cross the ball. No, he's a party pass. He still passes the need away. I had luck and again, this is that thing. But Charleston only creates two big chances. Big chances where a player sets a person up. And they should conceive of his score. Usually it's a one-on-one or inside the six-yard box. You only created two last season. I had a moral luck when you played much less games created by police. That's the sort of difference in creativity. That's what a criticism of Charleston. That's not his game. He's a goalscorer and winger. But you look at other people who are goalscorer and winger. It's like a salar or a stall. They're also very creative. They're also getting certain people up. And that's where this game needs to come on, which you'll think it will. I think he'll get much better. But I think that ability to make space in the box as you say, you could harness that by having them centrally. And there are two more creative players outside. And we might be a better team for it. It is weird, isn't it? Because when you look at it, you've got like 13 goals last season in the Premier League, 14 overall. And you think, well, if he gets 14 again, wide, and we get a lad in the middle, he gets 15. And then we've got Bernard, who gets off immediately our goals have gone. And that's great because you want your front-reader to be able to get your goals. But then the flip side to that is if we don't bring a centre forward in, and I think we will, but if we didn't, then surely he's a good option. If we do then bring a left foot at the right wing of it, like Neres or like Malcolm, someone like that who can put the ball in the back of the net as well, then you've got this kid through the middle as well. Yeah, there's options. Like I said, people go, you need three strikers. Not many teams carry three soul strikers because it's hard to give them that many minutes. A lot of teams, they play one striker. So there's only outman city, there's a guero, and Azus, and then still in camp play in front of you. Same with the Charleston, you've got the new striker, don't have a Calvalloon, whichever way around you want them, and then you've got the option if you need it. And in certain games, I don't want to criticise the Calvalloon. In certain games, when it's two banks of four, and you're trying to break them down, in making half yard in the box and being able to get a shot off is key to winning games. That's the difference. And Calvalloon's game just isn't there yet, where he's going to be in the air. Yes, because we put the ball into Calvalloon, great side of the ball. And it's at his feet to make it that space to shoot. It's still not quite there yet. So having someone like me, Charleston, is essentially closer to goal. Get one chance at him. That's all we need. So with all that said then, there's two questions here. So I'll ask you this one first, and I'll go back to that one. Do you see a position changing for him just in general, whether it's at Everton or whether he moved on in a couple of seasons? Or do you think? I think in the right system, he plays as a nine. Do you? I think if you went to someone like, eventually if it was a bar slow, and I don't think they play him on the wing, because I don't think he's, I don't think he's what type of wing it type is. They want people who can possession play. But if you've got some instinctive in the box, you can go on to Messi's ball. I'll be there by that point. But if Messi or whoever's creating, that type of play, like a Suarez, will play through the middle. Play through the middle. You know, that's the type of, if you look at even Tottenham, I see when they brought Kane back in. Towards the end of the season, Kane and Kane, when they had just son even though they're not natural strikers, they're both attacking the field as white wingers. They caused so many problems at the pace, yeah. I suppose it's arguably better. You want a city game? You just absolutely ran them right. You ran them right into that second city game, because they just couldn't control it. And that is an option that we will have with Recharlson. And I think, I suppose it's easy to say he's not going to be a winger now, and I can't say he's a nine, because I still need to see that progressionist game. I'm waiting for him to be a better passer. He's a good dribbler, by the way. I know people like to say, he's better, he's a wags, he gets a ball. He still doesn't, he still doesn't like, puts away for it. He still doesn't complete a lot of his dribbles, you know, like his percentage for what other wingers of his level of ability isn't that high. He doesn't complete as many, so you're looking at most top dribbles, usually 60, 70% of the dribbles that he completes. He's more around 50, 49, 50%. So he still needs to make better decisions, yeah, yeah. So he still needs to make better decisions on the ball board. I think as a nine, if you had space to drop into, you know, 4-3-3 for example, and then you could go to a player essentially and stretch like, you know, looking at it when he had Catoffian dunk on toast last season, they couldn't handle that. And against them type of defenders, if he's running at them, would space to drop into. But if he's played like he was in the 4-2-3 one, right up against the centre of the Alves, and then you've got them in field dropping into cover Guilfe as well, it just doesn't have enough space for them to work. And it sort of creates problems where he's drawn flowers with that because he wants the ball into his chest. They're off to Guilfe, that's his game. So it's just, you know, it depends on the sit in the right system, but Charles is number nine. And I think for Everton this season, he'll probably stay on the wing while we stick with the 4-2-3-1 with Guilfe. But I think long term he could be a nine, yeah. So with all that being said, would you still go and buy the centre forward? Yeah, I would anyway. Just just, even, you know, maybe here we've been linked with, you know, Gai-chin stuff like that. If you brought Gai-chin and Calvert Llewyn, then you also have a Charles, and there's still the other options. So yeah, I think, I think brands answer, you know, that you can probably play centrally with Charles and then that option's always there for them and it also allows them to play like, you know, different types of wingers. I don't know what's going to happen with Lachman, but hopefully he's given more of a chance next season. I'm a big Lachman fan. I think, you know, I think he'd be great off the wing again. The problem is Benard plays in front and Benard works hard off the ball, which is what Lachman needs to do if he wants to play for whatever. He needs to work hard off the ball and train him. But yeah, with playing Guilfe and Charles, you then need to fill the other two positions whichever way around you do it with some creativity. That's why Benard probably has to stay and say he couldn't bring in some exactly the same as your Charles and have them on the wings. Cos then you'd be pulling creativity up the side and it'll all be left unsig isn't it? Which is good creativity, but he needs help. Everyone needs help, you know what I mean. It's just when, you know, it's just when I'm looking at the moment and I'm thinking right, we know that we want a chance to forward. So if they want a chance to forward to come in and we know for a fact they want a left footed right winger. He'd be playing back on the left next season. So then where will Benard go? But then you need options when doing it. And then people who used to play the Benard 10, they only played these on hand games there in his career at all. But he has got the ability. And there's also the option if you're bringing a six, you could play like City 2, 4, 1, 4, 1, where you have two attacking midfielders, Guilfe and Benard, two wingers, I know that's hard for them cos we're still not, probably, you know, it's hard to imagine, but that's a potential option. And I think Silver would look to play that eventually. But yeah, again, it's all about the pace now. We need to buy players who also allow us to play different ways. So like the left foot of the right winger that allows us then to play a 4, 3, 3. Do you have the wide forwards if you will? I play coaches of the striker. And they've basically got three forwards then with the midfield behind them. So yeah, it just depends. I'll say in the right system you will play as a nine in the 4, 2, 3, 1 that we currently play. I don't think so long term. Well, do you think Everton may move to the 4, 3, 3? I think so. And I think as Guilfe gets older, naturally I think he will sort of gravitate. But if he plays quite a bit deeper, doesn't he fit in Iceland any right at times? He plays as a 10 on the weekend actually, but he does play a deeper form at times. And even though it's not Guilfe, as I said about Sangari previously, if you can play in a field place, Sangari, Gomez and Gay, you probably need a more natural six, but Sangari can play six as well. He's got the ability. And then you've got the three, they, them three there and then you've got the three forwards who have what it is saying. You know, with Charleston on the left with the new strikers and the new left foot of the right winger. And then that's a similar system to what Liverpool play at the moment. It just changes the options. You've got so many different options with the players coming in. And I think that's what you need. You can't play the same way like I, we all watched at the end of last season. You know, it worked against, you know, your Manchester United. And then we play Fulham, just didn't, you know, didn't we? Yeah, and the Crystal Palace. Crystal Palace, yeah. Crystal Palace. Yeah, because they're sitting deeper. That, you know, that counts. The tackle style won't work as well. So you need to be able to break teams down, which, you know, we need different players to do it, yeah. It's options, isn't it, I suppose? That's exactly. It's more or less of, you know, different ways. You can't just have like, you can't just have a mirror for mirror. So you buy like a mirror for a Charles and to play behind him. You need something different in each position. And I suppose with the likes of him, he gives us the options. He's got a right-left chance, doesn't he? I'd like to see him back on the left, because I think that, I think he, I can't remember that. He scored like more goals on the left than he did anywhere else. I think he was eight last season. He scored off the left. But yeah, he's better off the left than he is off the right. But then that relationship though between Dean and Bernard. Yeah, exactly. The dynamic is better for the season. He covers Coleman's works hard. Yeah. So it's trying to fill in gaps in when you sign new plays. You know, you go, well, Charles didn't do well on the right, but that is not his best position. I need to be able to move him. Let me say this then. If, so say Everton began with Lysioloson and Coleman on the right and Bernard and Dean on the left, because that's how we finished the season. And we got, I don't know, Sheb Hallef, just for the sake because his name is being mentioned. The left foot of right winger then I suppose should come in and take his time to bet. If it was a nerves or if it was a Malcolm or something. I think especially with the nerves, especially he's got some time. Let them come and show half an hour, 20 minutes. By Christmas, you're ready to let them out. And then you've, then it's up to everybody then. I suppose then you're going, I'm at it going. I don't know who's going to play it. Well, that's also the teams that are setting up for us. When people are analysing those opposition scouts, they're going to be going, well, he might play the 4-3-3, but he might play the 4-3-3. You know what I mean? It's doubt then. So you can't, at the moment, you can say, Evan would play the 4-3-3-1. We know he's going to start away. And it's easier to set up against them. So you need to be able to, and that's why I waited in the season because we did play differently if you think before Christmas, it's that great period we had after Christmas. So that's what we need to do. We need to be able to play in different ways against different teams. It's going to be interesting to see how Richard Allison's career does pan out because I think there's a case for both. I think he's great-wide just because he is a wide striker. But I do see things in his game. That was just natural instinctive finishing inside the penalty area. Where he puts the ball in the back of the net from, and that to me says, a centre forward. Yeah, you know, I've spoken to people about that. You know, this and Evan podcast again. But most of them, for example, he's got that audible neck I just turn up inside the box. You just be able to, like, just knows exactly where to be. And that's the same with Richard Allison. There's only a couple of players you see with it now, and he's, Richard Allison's one of the other ones, Ryan Sesson, and for me he's another one who just ends up in the right place in the box all the time. And you can't teach that. Some people develop it, but these lads are just quite naturally. And if the closest to the goal they are, and if you're putting the ball in the back of the box, and he's got half a chance to score, and how wide he's having to come in, you see it's a bit, 100% it's hard to, it's hard to, it's hard to, I'm not going to go to the shop, I can say. Yes, that's good. Well, we'll see how he develops. It's great to have a ladw you can do both and it's effective in. It's great to see him doing well for Brazil as well. Oh yeah, it's brilliant, isn't it? It's brilliant to have the Brazil slight as a net and score and goals. I mean, the more he scores, the more they'll be linked away. From Everton, but that's football, and that is the way it is. 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