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2022/23 Jordan Pickford

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TheBigIguana said:
This is, as is par for us, horrendous business once again. 30m is great value for a keeper, maybe push for 40m since he's freshly signed, but ultimately you have to build a squad and managing your resources is everything.
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Whether its bad business, I am not so sure. But anyrate, there isnt, to my knowledge, a monied club who need a new top keeper this Jan. None of us know the accounts, and transfer budget, (probably for the best), but I would prefer we secured his services, rather than lose him for peanuts/nothing.
 
roydo said:
Whether its bad business, I am not so sure. But anyrate, there isnt, to my knowledge, a monied club who need a new top keeper this Jan. None of us know the accounts, and transfer budget, (probably for the best), but I would prefer we secured his services, rather than lose him for peanuts/nothing.
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Yeah this is probably a summer problem.
 
Shibbywiggles said:
Absolutely! So where is this cheap keeper who is equally as good as England’s number one and our multiple time player of the season winner?
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Plenty of gems to be found as always. We have to actually do the scouting but they exist. The best example right now is Bournemouth pulling Neto off the Barca bench on a free and having him play solidly for them.

Pickford has been great this year so you might have to accept a small step back but I'd gladly do that if it meant we can genuinely improve other areas.
 

TheBigIguana said:
Plenty of gems to be found as always. We have to actually do the scouting but they exist. The best example right now is Bournemouth pulling Neto off the Barca bench on a free and having him play solidly for them.

Pickford has been great this year so you might have to accept a small step back but I'd gladly do that if it meant we can genuinely improve other areas.
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I’m not expert so here are some google facts and an assumption:

Neto is 33 and has a 4% worse save percentage and I bet he doesn’t start counter attacks as well as Pickford either.

Your second point is fair though but I don’t think we have to compromise when we could sell other players and reinforce without selling our literal best player.
 
Shibbywiggles said:
I’m not expert so here are some google facts and an assumption:

Neto is 33 and has a 4% worse save percentage and I bet he doesn’t start counter attacks as well as Pickford either.

Your second point is fair though but I don’t think we have to compromise when we could sell other players and reinforce without selling our literal best player.
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Fun fact because I'm bored and just messing around on this stats site: Neto has the highest completion % of passes over 40 yards of any keeper this season.

Also Pickford has the lowest percentage of crosses stopped by the keeper in the league. Not sure that really means anything about his quality I just find it interesting.
 
roydo said:
He has 2 effective centre half's in front of him?
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It could be part of it. I was looking at prior years and what is interesting there is Pickford is about the same percentage but the rest of the league is claiming way more on average than in the past.

I'm not really sure what any of this means and I'm not trying to figure it out, just bored and clicking things.
 

It's a no brainer if we receive a big bid for Pickford, as much as he has been excellent for us in the last 18 months, he isn't the most calmest influence for a keeper. Like I said last year I would have gladly taken Bazuna from City and use the spare pounds for a striker, Bazuna has had a few problems at Soton but I think that's common for a young keeper. It's not often Pep puts a first refusal on any player leaving. Trying to think of other number 2s in the league, Kelliher may be looking to leave Liverpool but highly unlikely they would sell to us. The Croatia keeper at the world cup would be worth keeping an eye on, but I'm sure people have a greater grasp on who's available than me.
 
Verbal Kint said:
It's a no brainer if we receive a big bid for Pickford, as much as he has been excellent for us in the last 18 months, he isn't the most calmest influence for a keeper. Like I said last year I would have gladly taken Bazuna from City and use the spare pounds for a striker, Bazuna has had a few problems at Soton but I think that's common for a young keeper. It's not often Pep puts a first refusal on any player leaving. Trying to think of other number 2s in the league, Kelliher may be looking to leave Liverpool but highly unlikely they would sell to us. The Croatia keeper at the world cup would be worth keeping an eye on, but I'm sure people have a greater grasp on who's available than me.
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TheBigIguana said:
Plenty of gems to be found as always. We have to actually do the scouting but they exist. The best example right now is Bournemouth pulling Neto off the Barca bench on a free and having him play solidly for them.

Pickford has been great this year so you might have to accept a small step back but I'd gladly do that if it meant we can genuinely improve other areas.
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That 'small step back', would probably have had us relegated last season and may well do this season, should we try to replace Pickford on an Everton budget.
 

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