 Welcome to ToffeeTV. Nicola Vlasic is leaving Everton. He is signing to CSK and Moscow for a fee in the region of £14 million plus add-ons. Apparently, a sell-on fee. Yeah, apparently a sell-on fee in there, so good. A player we paid around £10 million for two summers ago. We probably got a couple of million for them last summer, I imagine. Three million that he bought at the fee wash. I played with that for two years, we've made a profit on. Is it the right thing to do? Yeah, as much as potentially he's got a lot of talent. He's not at the club at the moment, he doesn't want to be at the club. He said that numerous times this season. He felt as though, I think he felt as though he was going to have a fresh start last summer when Marco Silva came in. And it didn't happen. The manager looked at him, he played in a few games, played in the Algarve Cup and stuff, didn't he? And then was told to train away from the rest of the team and then was put out on loan. So we probably thought, I've got no future here. And went off to Moscow and had a very good season for them. Eight goals in 30 games for CSKA last season. So that represents a good season for him. So much so that they wanted to keep him. If you've got a player who isn't at your club and isn't getting in the 18 and isn't affecting anything, and he wants to play, then it's an easy move, I think, to sell him. Yeah, and obviously they play in the Champions League. He's got a couple of goals in the Champions League. So for him, he's had a good season there. As we mentioned in a video previously this week, he got into the team of the season. He's playing in his favourite position. The game's probably slower. So I just, for me, I'd like to have seen him, not saying I'd like to have seen him get a chance, but you'd like to have seen him develop, because he's obviously a talented footballer, but the club has decided he's not the right fit. They just probably decided that last summer. Maybe they thought we'll get him back this summer and have another look at him, but the player himself was very keen for the move. Didn't really want to come back to ever. From his point of view, I understand that. You know, he was signed by, you know, one manager, and then was left out by David Unsworth. And then Sam Allardice wasn't entertaining them either, because they wanted players who were, they could depend on, and they didn't have time to develop players. If they needed players, they could depend on. So from that point of view, I think he's been hard done by, because he's probably seen his career path stunted, whatever that career path was, I don't know what it was, but whatever that career path was was stunted, and he had the chance to move, he took it, and he's happy, and if he's happy and he wants to stay there, then sometimes you've just got to say, well, fair enough. If he was some real hot talent prospect with bags of pace, and you can really see that development going forward, I personally might feel a little bit sad to lose him, but the club thought, put it this way, the club thought very hard last summer to keep Adam Ola Luchman at the club. You know, they were adamant, no matter what he felt, they wanted to keep him, because they felt like he was something that he could work with. Well, it's quite the opposite for Flossage. Yeah, like we said, he's a good player, and he scored in the under-21s for Croatia this week, didn't he? Yesterday, he scored in the under-21s, so he's a good footballer, there's no question about it. I was reading stuff on him before, he'd like captain had to split, he was 16 and things like that, and scored on his debut and things, so there's a lot of talent there, but the Premier League's fast and unforgiving, and evidently, I suppose, as a manager like Marco Silva, you've got to make those judgement calls, and probably him and Brands have sat down and gone, like, we know we've got to train this wage bill, and we've got to get rid of some of these players, because we want to bring in other players, and they've probably looked at Flossage and gone, oh, is he going to get in your team in the next 12 months? Probably not. We've got to buy a day forum right now, so we can take money for him, we can get him off the wage bill. The lad wants to stay where he is, wants to play. It's a no-brainer almost, because he's not in your squad. If he was in the squad and he played a bit last season and he was on the bench, he'd be gone, why have you shown him for that long? You know, people have talked about the fee being low, but another thing with that is, if he wants to stay in Moscow, which he said he does, and nobody else is coming in for him, or doesn't take his club, say, he'll have him on loan, then you take the... It's a bit like everything with Gomez, isn't it? The player's made it quite clear where he wants to play. It puts other clubs off when coming in and bidding, so it drives the fee down, and that's probably what's happening with him, but I just think for him personally, he's a young lad that wants to play football and wants to develop, so if he's gone and found he's happier, a club where he can do well, then why not stay there for him? He signed a five-year deal with Evan, he was out the door two years later, just because he's signed a... Or he's agreed a five-year deal with CSK, Moscow doesn't mean he's staying there for five years. Next summer, he might have another great season in the next summer, in Tamalan, or someone might come from for £35 million and if that's the case, Evan will make some money on him, but we agree he's a good footballer, but he's not going to get... I don't think he's going to get an Evan's first team and that's probably where we have to look now. If we're going to try and bridge a gap that's above us, we have to look for players who are going to come in and affect the team now. I understand some people will be saying we should have a buyback clause or we should just loan them again and get them back next year because he's going to be a great player. If the player doesn't want to go on loan again as well, there's a lot of parties that you've got to... You know, and Marcel Brands is juggling. We said the other day in one of the videos we've done about getting players out the door quickly, well, you sell the ones that are in demand first. He's obviously in demand and there's money on the table and Evan will take it. Yeah, I mean, for me, I would have liked it to have been a possibility of a buyback clause in there because I think that's what Evan should be doing going forward, keeping their options open for these players. But, you know, if they put a sell-on clause in there, then at least we'll get some more money from him if he does have that potential and he sees that potential out. The player himself, you look at him and think, well, would he get into... Is he got the potential to get into his top six team? Would he be bang on anyone's doors in the top six? I don't think he would because I don't think he's got the pace. I simply don't think he's got the pace to play at the highest level in the Premier League. I think you need that pace. You need to be able to get away from players. I just don't think he's got it. I think that's key in the Premier League. We've seen that, we've seen that. Last season, the way we started with the... how slow we were transitioning, now you need to be a counterattack inside. You need to be able to press fast and then you need to be able to counterattack. And the only way you can do that is with pace and I just don't think he's got it. And he might shoot the European game and he actually shoots European competition. But as we've seen with the winners of that tournament this season, you need to be able to put it all together and you can... English teams can dominate European teams now because that's what English teams are looking for. That pace doesn't necessarily... European teams are not necessarily looking for that. But the Premier League, it's all about that and we've seen that more and more and more. So that slower player is being... as good as he might be at football, they're getting pushed away because English teams are now looking for the full package. They're looking for something like David Klassen. I'm not trying people who have their opinion on David Klassen, but David Klassen is obviously a very good footballer. He was the Ajax captain, you know, 20 goals in Holland, great movement, good vision. Come to the Premier League, it was just physically too quick for him. And a lot of players will come to the Premier League and struggle and go elsewhere. He was at middles, was terrible, went to Spain, was amazing. You know, you'll see it right the way down because the Premier League is physical. It's a fast physical game. He could go and be brilliant in Spain or brilliant in Italy. He could, as he gets older, he could learn to play in the Premier League and good movement will get him there rather than his pace. But just at the minute, when decisions are being made, I just don't think he's good enough at this moment to get never the same and that's why he's sold them. So hopefully this is the first of many. Now we can start getting out the door of him, possibly on Yakuuru, if the club don't want him either. And then, you know, like you said before, they're the ones, if they're in demand and you haven't really got a role for them, then you're going to have to just get rid of them and then hope that the ones that are a little bit less that lower down that it will take a little bit more time to move because we'll have to wait until the market start moving a little bit more. The likes of the Balaces, the likes of Morales, surely people want Martina. Come on, come on. Must be a Dutch side, that one. Those players, then, they'll take a little bit longer because they're not in demand in clubs. They'll be, you know, the clubs have got lists. One, two, three, four, five. Well, they're options, aren't they? The ones, you're right with, you know, there'll be another sale probably over the next four or five days. That'll kick something on. You know, Walcott, as it is he, someone who people might want, you know, I'm sure somewhere they're on people's lists because everyone does that, everyone looks at squads and go, can we get him? Does he improve us? But you've got a sale of ones who people want first and foremost and that's just how football is, isn't it? And then later on in the window, you know, hopefully, you'd like to think that the likes of Balacian people will move on, but I'm sure they'll go. It's just whether they go for money or another loan. Well, that's the wait and see. Yeah. Let us know your thoughts on Nicola Vass is moving to Russia, permanent deal. Are you happy he's going or would you have liked to see him get a bit more of a chance at heaven? Let us know your thoughts. Don't forget to give this video a like. Subscribe if you haven't already. Join us on Patreon for more great videos, longer videos, live videos. 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