Jordan Pickford

[bazzer25]

That's true but he'd be nothing more than a stop-gap. 32 next April.

Yeah good point, don't get me wrong I think Pickford is ideal.

 

[davek]

Feel free to name me someone we could get in that spectrum with stats better than Pickford. No point naming names with nothing to justify them.

Also @Connor linked this: http://scores.nbcsports.com/epl/player_leaders.asp?category=106

Isn't the new era upon us? Aren't the club supposed to have moved on from shopping at Aldi now?

That's what I heard.

 

[Nymzee]

Isn't the new era upon us? Aren't the club supposed to have moved on from shopping at Aldi now?

That's what I heard.

Nice swerving of the question there...

 

[davek]

Bear in mind that De Gea and Courtois would be having a higher % of shots from target and in general lower % chance of scoring opportunities against them due to having a far better quality of defence ahead of them.

There are many ways to skew the numbers.

Shots at goal are shots at goal. Doesn't matter what defence that's there: the defence has failed at that stage because the GK is having to make the stop.

 

[bluestevon]

he is a small goalkeeper, i don't like small keepers, they are not superior in aerial duels

Yeah he's only 6'1, should swerve him, wish Kendall would have had the same mentality, we'd have avoided that 6'1 bum Southall...

 

[TheBigIguana]

It doesn't take long to see the quality he has but it will be different experience playing behind a backline that isn't giving up 18 shots a game. It should be easier for him but it doesn't always work that way

 

[windymiller]

Shots at goal are shots at goal. Doesn't matter what defence that's there: the defence has failed at that stage because the GK is having to make the stop.

Not true. We've all been at games when one team is restricted to long range pot shots that the keeper should save 99.9% of the time. They all go on the stats. Stats can only tell us so much, otherwise the RS moneyball approach would've won them the league by now.

 

[davek]

No because Pickford has not played in all games.

That's a fair point. He was out after Christmas and they shipped a lot of goals.

I dont know how that would affect his shots on target/goals conceded ratio. Probably shift them toward the 3:1 point.

 

[davek]

Not true. We've all been at games when one team is restricted to long range pot shots that the keeper should save 99.9% of the time. They all go on the stats. Stats can only tell us so much, otherwise the RS moneyball approach would've won them the league by now.

It's crude, but its all we have besides perception.

 

[bazzer25]

Shots at goal are shots at goal. Doesn't matter what defence that's there: the defence has failed at that stage because the GK is having to make the stop.

Are you kidding? Of course it matters, if a striker is pushed out wide but still gets a shot off it is far easier to save than the shot that comes from having an utter tosh defence that the striker has just bypassed and is glaring through on goal. Remember you wanted to make this a more in depth analysis.

 

[windymiller]

It's crude, but its all we have besides perception.

This is true in almost all professions. That's why we recruit experts to view the stats and try to put them in the appropriate context when recruiting new players. I'm not opposed to stats but I do think there is a risk of them becoming a new religion!

 

[Connor]

Isn't the new era upon us? Aren't the club supposed to have moved on from shopping at Aldi now?

That's what I heard.

So buying the potential future England number one for close to 20 million is 'shopping from Aldi'?

 

[paultheblue]

Won absolutely everything there is to win in the game like. Also the following isn't bad considering he's not even close:

Individual
[108]

• Bravo Award: 2000[109]
• La Liga Breakthrough Player of the Year: 2000
• La Liga Best Goalkeeper: 2009, 2012
• BBVA Fair Play award: 2012–13
• Zamora Trophy: 2007–08
• Best European Goalkeeper: 2010
• IFFHS World's Best Goalkeeper: 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
• FIFA FIFPro World XI: 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
• FIFA World Cup Golden Glove: 2010[110]
• FIFA World Cup Dream Team: 2010
• UEFA Euro Team of the Tournament: 2008, 2012
• UEFA Team of the Year: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
• ESM Team of the Year: 2008
• UEFA Ultimate Team of the Year (published 2015)[111]

Maybe so but he knew f all about mark2 Cortinas

 

[davek]

Are you kidding? Of course it matters, if a striker is pushed out wide but still gets a shot off it is far easier to save than the shot that comes from having an utter tosh defence that the striker has just bypassed and is glaring through on goal. Remember you wanted to make this a more in depth analysis.

Lol. How can you state a shot coming in from an angle is obviously going to be any easier to save than a shot off a player clean through? How many times do you see the latter bottled by the attacker or easily saved by the GK?

 

[davek]

So buying the potential future England number one for close to 20 million is 'shopping from Aldi'?

Is he the future England number 1?

Sunderland are Aldi.