I'm have become Scrum master for my team this year(part time, the other time I'll continue my work as QA in the team). I'm still learning abiut the framework and hope to get certified in the next few months.

Some more background: I've joined the team in June as QA. Back then we were 5 devs, PO and me. Since then the team has evolved to 8 devs (5 of them new, one of the beginning 4 has left the project) , one new QA and me moving to a part time SM. We are split in 4 countries so all of our meetings are by calls. Our team is part of big project with 8 teams in total and the project itself is really complicated with a lot of dependencies between the teams.

My team did not have a Scrum master in the last year (they had one in 2017) and due to this they had left only the daily Scrum and grooming and ignored the planing, review and retrospective events.

I want to introduce this meetings back to the team, since our work is really chaotic and 2 of the developers with a lot of experience are carrying the team on their shoulders.

However one of the two experienced devs is strongly against as he says useless meetings. And the one that he is against the most is the daily. From his perspective it is big waste of everyone's time (last year we did not have a lot of moderation and some daily were longer than 40 minutes). I was trying to explain him the point of the daily and the benefits (e.g. planing for the next 24 hours of work, syncing where everyone is with hist task, if anyone needs help, how we are progressing through the sprint etc.). Regardless he is adamant that he makes good plans for his work time (which is true) and does not really care for what the rest of the team is doing. He even suggest to just leave our status in the slack channel of the team, each day at the same time so only the interested people to read it.

So any hints how to convince him to agree on the daily meetings? What benefits we can get from them as a team and how I can be sure that even if we are in a call everyone is listening.

If you reached the end, thank you for reading the wall of text.