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Everton agree £45m club record fee with Swansea for Gylfi Sigurdsson via The Guardian

• Iceland playmaker will have his medical on Wednesday
• Garth Barry joins West Brom on one-year deal

Everton have agreed a deal worth up to £45m for Swansea playmaker Gylfi Sigurdsson.

The Icelandic playmaker will undergo a medical on Wednesday to finally complete his protracted transfer to Goodison Park.

Related: Transfer system is not perfect but Premier League plans do not make sense | Nick Miller

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Gylfi Sigurdsson Deal Agreed via GrandOldTeam

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Everton have agreed a deal with Swansea City to sign midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson for a fee reported to be around £45m.

The Iceland international scored nine goals and contributed 13 assists last season to help the Swans beat the drop and will complete a medical at Everton on Wednesday.

POLL: Do you think Gylfi Sigurdsson will be a good signing for Everton?


Player Profile via Tom Ferguson

It is clear what Ronald Koeman wants…

More goals and creativity from all over the pitch.

Gylfi Sigurdsson fits the bill.

With 49 caps for his native Iceland, he has picked up a respectable 15 goals.

In what was a truly abysmal Swansea City side, Sigurdsson managed to grab himself nine goals and a very impressive 13 assists.

A key factor why the Swans retained their top division status.


Gylfi Sigurdsson has been involved in 51.1% of Swansea's 43 Premier League goals this season:

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— Squawka Football (@Squawka) May 18, 2017
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At 27, Sigurdsson is coming to his peak. He stands at 6ft1 and is as capable with his left foot as he is with his right.

His ability to be deployed in more than one position is a massive plus.

With Ross Barkley’s future up in the air, he would be the perfect replacement.

A Steven Pienaar shaped gap has plagued Everton since the demise of the South African. Sigurdsson is a man who can make the left hand side his own.

After putting aside a troublesome experience at Spurs, he has thrived off becoming the main man in a side. A team built around the former Reading ace is vital to getting the best out of him.

Lacking leaders has troubled the Blues’ ranks for a number of years.

Sigurdsson was handed the captain’s armband and led by example on more than one occasion en route to saving Paul Clement’s outfit from the drop.

An issue with Everton has been the lack of danger and productivity from set pieces.

Since the questionable decision to remove Leighton Baines from dead ball duties there’s been no true excitement from the Goodison faithful when getting that free kick on the edge of the 18-yard-box or a corner.

Gylfi is the man to change that. A serious threat to anyone’s goal when given the chance to whip it in or line up a shot at goal.


No player has scored more free-kicks (6) in the Premier League since 2012/13 than Gylfi Sigurdsson.

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— Squawka Football (@Squawka) April 30, 2017
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Up the Toffees.

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Gareth Barry Transfer Confirmed via GrandOldTeam

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Gareth Barry has completed his move from Everton to West Bromwich Albion after four years at Goodison Park.

Barry told evertonfc.com: “I’ve had four great years at Everton. The fans have been brilliant with me from the day I signed until the day I left. I’m proud that the Club will always be a big part of my career.

“There are too many people to thank but I’d like to mention a few of them – the Chairman, Bill Kenwright, Roberto Martinez who brought me to Goodison, Ronald Koeman whom I’ve enjoyed working with, the staff at the Club and some great teammates. And of course the fans.

“Look forward to seeing you all again.”

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Jordan Pickford – Behind The Numbers via Everton Arent We

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Young goalkeeper Jordan Pickford has joined Everton for £30m. In the first of a series on Everton’s summer signings, I take a look at Jordan Pickford’s statistics and what they tell us about Everton’s inaugural acquisition.

Pickford kept 4 clean sheets in the 2016/17 season, a poor return on first look, but Pickford was playing behind an utterly abject defence that offered his goal little protection. Pickford’s shot stopping credentials can be truly seen through the number of saves he made per game – at 4.61, Pickford made more stops per game than any other Premier League keeper. He also saved 73% of the shots he faced, behind only Hugo Lloris and Tom Heaton in the league. We can expect Pickford to face far less shots this season than last, so the technical side of his goalkeeping, such as his positioning and dominance of his penalty box, may be the area in which we should look to give us an idea of how he will cope this season.

Pickford claimed 98% of the crosses he went for last season and completed 23 punches, which places him 2nd behind only Heurelho Gomes in that department. For a young goalkeeper to have such good command of his area is unusual and will serve the Everton defence a big advantage, as when defending leads or away points the goalkeeper can take pressure off the defence by claiming long balls rather than risking a penalty box scramble or a kindly drop to a player waiting on the edge of the area. We saw this against Stoke on Saturday as Pickford punched away every single ball he went for. Although some bemoan the use of punches it is worth noting that Pickford is only 6”1, which is comparatively short for a goalkeeper. This lack of height means claiming crosses is more difficult as he will be contesting with taller players within the penalty area, therefore a firm punch out of danger may occasionally be a safer option than an attempt to catch.

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The area in which Pickford stands out is his distribution. Although his distribution success rate is fairly low at 50%, it is worth noting that this was the 3rd best out of keepers whose average pass length was over 50 metres, meaning that even with David Moyes’ instructions to hit goal kicks long, Pickford was finding his man half of the time. Bearing in mind that Sunderland played last season with 5”7 Jermain Defoe as the lone striker, this suggests that Pickford’s accuracy of kicking is far more impressive than the 50% gives him credit for. Anyone who watched the Stoke game on Saturday seen the accuracy of Pickford’s wide passes to Calvert-Lewin and Martina from his penalty area, and Pickford indeed completed 85% of passes to players within his own half. However none of his long kicks found their man, suggesting one area of improvement would be the accuracy of his long goal kicks. If Everton do sign a target man as predicted, this stat will improve as the likelihood of an Everton forward winning an aerial ball increases.

I believe I speak for all Evertonians when I say we very much like what we see from Jordan Pickford, and he has all the makings to become yet another famous Everton number one.

*All stats were taken from Squakwa.

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The Midweek Ramble No.1 via Everton Arent We

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It just had to be didn’t it.

It just had to be him.

A record 4,869 days had passed since Evertonians saw Wayne Rooney bag a goal in the Royal Blue Jersey, and he celebrated like it was his first all over again. Much can be said about his supposed decline in recent years but what Rooney still possesses on the evidence of last Saturday is genuine game changing ability. 45 minutes of going through the motions gave the impression that it was going to be another one of those seasons, until Rooney finished what proved to be the match winning move. From then onwards, he pretty much ran the show. Strutting across the pitch with the same swagger that was reminiscent of his first stint at the club, he pinged the ball all over the field, finding creative openings for others that were so lacking in the first half.

If a blast from Everton’s past was what gave way to the game opener, then it was Everton’s future that ensured it was the match winner. Jordon Pickford was at full stretch to deny Stoke City’s Frodo Baggins from range right at the death. For a kid who has come with the heavy burden of a £30 million pound price tag, he looks at ease with the pressure the lofty fee has brought to many, and long may it continue.

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Seems at the moment the man bearing the brunt of the ire from the Goodison faithful (because there just has to be one boo boy) is new lad Davy Klaassen. What people need to remember is that he’s only months into settling at a new club, having come from one which pretty much drills in the same system from an early age, all the way into his professional career. It’s going to take time; let him find his feet.

Going forward it’s hard to see how 3 at the back can be made to work, and it wasn’t necessarily the fault of the defenders in question. There was no doubt that the team looked a lot more balanced when Koeman reverted to a 4-4-2, but it also poises the question, is Schneiderlin and Gueye in the same team too much of a good thing?

All in all, 3 points from the opening day is as good as you can wish for, but one little side note: Dominic Calvert-Lewin, you handsome devil you. Your progress is not going unnoticed. Well in fella.

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