2022/23 Jordan Pickford

[coleman=quality]

You dont sell your best young players. The time to sell players is at their peak value.

His agent may well be saying that as part of the usual games to get the loyalty bonus.

IF the club turn down £50mil+ they are insane.

I can’t see them turning £50m plus down for onana

 

[PITA]

Ederson and Allison are better keepers. They just are. 50mil for Pickford is probably fair for both sides. The “England #1” thing regarding value is stupid. David James was Englands #1 for a time. Rob Green started in the World Cup. Why is that particular designation so relevant?

Not sure it's that easy to say that 'they just are'. Put either in Everton's team, behind Everton's defence and see how they get on. I assume that City's second keeper played in all 6 FA Cup games and conceded just 1 and that was a penalty.

 

[Villa_Fan]

Ederson and Allison are better keepers. They just are. 50mil for Pickford is probably fair for both sides. The “England #1” thing regarding value is stupid. David James was Englands #1 for a time. Rob Green started in the World Cup. Why is that particular designation so relevant?

I agree that 50m would be fair. But that is only considering his value on the open market. His value to Everton is much more than 50m. I just don't believe EFC can sell Pickford and no club will (understandably) pay the money that he is worth to Everton

 

[Villa_Fan]

I can’t see them turning £50m plus down for onana

No offence, but I can't see anyone offering 50m for Onana

 

[Swartzy]

I agree that 50m would be fair. But that is only considering his value on the open market. His value to Everton is much more than 50m. I just don't believe EFC can sell Pickford and no club will (understandably) pay the money that he is worth to Everton

Exactly m8, his actual value on the market isn't even comparable to his value to Everton !!

They are worlds apart, and we are not in a position as a club to take such a horrendous risk..

 

[Goat]

Tough 1 really.

If it was FM and I knew what we had to spend and which players we would replace him with, I could make a more informed decision, alas, im just a lad on a footy forum chatting utter biscuits.

Every player does indeed have a price, what is Jordans? Who knows.

Everything ive heard suggests thats hes very happy here, the mad lad, so unless somebody makes us an offer we really cant refuse, I suspect he will be retained, which for me is good news.

If hes sold and we invest wisely, thats also ok, but im less hopeful of that happening.

 

[carolinablue232]

Because England are a top level international side and he's the keeper.

Both sides?

Pickford is a very good keeper, but Englands international standing in the game has no bearing on how good he is or isn’t. Is Lloris suddenly better because he’s been France’s #1?

 

[carolinablue232]

Tough 1 really.

If it was FM and I knew what we had to spend and which players we would replace him with, I could make a more informed decision, alas, im just a lad on a footy forum chatting utter biscuits.

Every player does indeed have a price, what is Jordans? Who knows.

Everything ive heard suggests thats hes very happy here, the mad lad, so unless somebody makes us an offer we really cant refuse, I suspect he will be retained, which for me is good news.

If hes sold and we invest wisely, thats also ok, but im less hopeful of that happening.

That’s the real argument. Our track record suggests we’d waste the funds on crap players in which case we should keep him because we already know he’s good.

 

[Mrbluenose]

My take is this.

We sell for 50, spend 15 on a decent keeper good enough for mid table safety. Then spend 35 on a decent CF who would be a big upgrade on Maupay (rubbish) and Dom (can't stay fit).

We are a bit weaker in goal, but a lot stronger up top. Overall we have a better starting 11 with some actual goal threat.

Obviously, easier said than done.

 

[dan7787]

Looking like we shouldn't have let Begović go now, does anyone know the reason for him leaving? Did we not offer a good enough contract?

Does anyone know how good our backup keepers are?

 

[Bayboy]

Don't think we should take it for granted that any big money sale would mean that the money would be available to reinvest into the team.
We've brought in well over 100 million over the past couple of seasons, and only a fraction was reinvested.

 

[Houghty19]

Ederson and Allison are better keepers. They just are. 50mil for Pickford is probably fair for both sides. The “England #1” thing regarding value is stupid. David James was Englands #1 for a time. Rob Green started in the World Cup. Why is that particular designation so relevant?

Can't say I agree with that at all. Pickford is imho their equal. It's a lot easier keeping clean sheets if your defence is any good look at de gea getting the golden glove and he's worse than all three.

 

[BirkenheadBlue]

This is perfect for that board this way of thinking: now they've got the fans thinking like they've achieved some kind of victory if we 'keep' Pickford by choosing to sell Onana instead of him, instead of, you know, actually building the team around them both.

I mean, it’s really not, since I never said I wanted to sell Onana, just that if we need to sell a high value player (which we likely do) then Onana would be far less damaging.

 

[BirkenheadBlue]

Comes down to what we would get for Pickford. 60mil and it’s an easy choice for me.

Unless we can get double for Pickford what we’d get for Onana, we shouldn’t consider selling him. Replacing Onana’s influence on the team would not be difficult. Replacing Pickford’s would be almost impossible.

 

[Sharpies volley]

As everyone knows I'm not Pickfords biggest fan. 50 mill, id snap someone's hand off. I think we can equal him for half that. There must be someone out there and with our scouting network. Oh wait.