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Stuartisitc1878
Player Valuation: £25m
The those papers and pundits that are slating the lad now will be the same ones selling him to United when DDG leaves.
sageyefc
Player Valuation: £90m
Well actually it was overspending on average players. Say like spending 30 mil on a keeper with one season of top flight football behind him.
And on your last paragraph I remember people saying the same about Chris Kirkland
Using your own 'logic' though, the fact that none of the top managers even bothered to sign Pickford in the first place tells us everything we need to know about him.
Only fault he has is parrying the ball back into play. Besides that he is a great shot stopper and a keeper that has top reflexes and anticipation. Dea Gea looks absolute rubbish this world cup but we know he is not. Germanys keeper looked garbage but we know he is not. We are in an age when failed managers are telling US were other managers and players are going wrong and ex players that have not a clue about coaching telling US what went wrong. Pearls of wisdom is not what these melts have or they would still be in the game. Football is a blame game now. Without faults no one would score. Remember the England team with Neville as coach then his highly successful managerial career in Spain. Football is not perfect and it's errors that make a game. Every single goal in history has an element of blame.
windymiller
Player Valuation: £50m
FFS it's bad enough that the gurning numpties on the cosy couches on TV are looking to give Pickford grief at the earliest opportunity but it is completely beyond the pale at how quickly some GOTers are happy to stick in the knife (and then give it a good twist). The lad was one of a few bright spots for us last season, he's the starting GK for a last 16 world cup side and is one of the only players we have who genuinely seems to delighted when we win and is gutted when we lose (or even concede a goal). But let's start getting on his case because he conceded a goal in the top corner against one of the top ranked teams in the world. Oh, and some of the lids on here giving him crap are the same people who want us to sign Danny Rose, you know, the lad who was really at fault last night. 'sake.
Didn't Fergie sign Jim Leighton and didn't Fergie sign Howard in the first place anyway.
Stephenlloyd
Player Valuation: £40m
Maybe some of these clubs that are getting quoted silly money fir keepers this summer, wish they had bought him last year for 30mil.
What have Arsenal just paid fir Leno? Who apparently has been poor the last couple of seasons in Germany. Butland will probably cost 50mil when he goes.
Well Arsenal have apparently paid £19m for Leno so quite considerably less.
That wasn't really the point though, I was just highlighting that it's pretty stupid to say Howard was obviously rubbish because Ferguson sold him, because it ignores the fact he obviously thought he was good enough to sign (and play) in the first place.
I'm really not trying to slate Pickford here, I genuinely think he's decent, but he's honestly not a massive improvement on peak Howard from where I'm sat.
Milk
Udderly delicious
Read somewhere before the WC kicked off that Bayern were going to run the rule over him. Probably not a bad thing last nights display then
Stephenlloyd
Player Valuation: £40m
He was manager for 26yrs with pots of money to spend, he was going to get some signings wrong. He obviously knew after seeing Howard in games and training everyday he wasn’t good enough and quickly moved him on.
So your saying Fergie should have stuck with Howard and give him more time?
Getting Van der sar & De Gea proved he was right.
What mistakes ?
Pickford at 23 was our player of the season and in a difficult season at the club has established himself as forst choice international keeper.
It is amazing how highly paid , top class coaches and international managers cannot see all these mistakes, but people who have no involvement (as far as I know) in professional sport and no understanding of what is involved in goalkeeping at that level can readily point out the mistakes that he is supposed to be making.
dancing llama
Player Valuation: £750k
My point was that defensive players playing in defensive teams are always going to look better than they probably are, whereas Pickford has had to play behind Sunderland and Everton defenses.
Kirkland was made of glass, unless you're planning on perma-crocking Pickford with a stapler as soon as he gets back from the WC it's a pointless comparison
royalblue66
Player Valuation: £70m
Quite right, I remember Dai The Drop.
Stephenlloyd
Player Valuation: £40m
See my last post Fergie was always going to make some mistakes in the transfer market, with loads of money to spend.
Serious question, do you think Howard would have lasted 10 yrs at one of the other top prem clubs the big 6 if you like.
Fergie’s Howard was
Moyes’s Koldrup
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