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Manchester United eyeing summer Pickford move?
The various transfer clickbait sites are reporting that Manchester United have identified Jordan Pickford as David de Gea’s potential successor and will attempt to sign the Everton star before next season.
The Spaniard is out of contract at the end of the month and could now leave Old Trafford just days after it was reported that the Red Devils had decided to offer him new terms.
As England's No 1 and player of the season, Pickford is an obvious target but a transfer story that began in The Sun demonstrates the way in which a single nonsense source can gain undue traction as it spreads across the various clickbait sites angling for traffic.
The Sunday tabloids are notorious for outlandish transfer rumours to drive newspaper sales and today's comes from Alan Nixon saying that the Blues would be willing to sell Pickford for just £30m which would represent break-even for the fee they paid Sunderland five years ago and completely ignore both the value of the more recent goalkeeping signings in the Premier League like Kepa's £80m move to Chelsea and his standing at international level.
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In addition, Pickford has just signed a new contract at Goodison Park so it's unlikely that Everton would even listen to offers under £60m for arguably their best player and the indications from the player's representatives are that he wants to stay with the Blues.
"Jordan is very happy at Everton and very settled with his young family. He loves the club and will remain at Everton until we are told otherwise. He is excited to get back for pre-season and help push Everton up the table," a spokesman from CAA Stellar is quoted as saying.
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2 Posted 11/06/2023 at 14:03:00
That valuation is way off the mark for our fan survey Player of the Season, and the established England No 1 goalkeeper. A fee double that would be more accurate.
3 Posted 11/06/2023 at 14:10:37
Can you imagine him and Robles battling it out for the Number 1 spot next season? We are so screwed.
4 Posted 11/06/2023 at 14:12:04
If we sold Onana and Pickford for around 𧴦M (we should not accept a penny less) we could rebuild with that. I want Pickford to stay, for the record; I just suspect we offered some assurances to get him to sign the contract.
5 Posted 11/06/2023 at 14:43:42
See Richarlison last summer.
6 Posted 11/06/2023 at 14:49:08
More bullshit from the Scum.
7 Posted 11/06/2023 at 14:55:42
Pickford for 㿞M would be good provided we can get a decent replacement.
Onana has to be at least 㿨M. A load if tosh in the press about incomings – not worth reading until someone goes or arrives.
8 Posted 11/06/2023 at 15:17:59
Well, we got him for a song… does that mean we sell for the same amount?
9 Posted 11/06/2023 at 16:04:44
“Well we got [Gray] for a song, does that mean we sell for the same amount.â€
They might settle for a couple of lines if not a full song.
“Not to be sniffed atâ€, I hear you say.
10 Posted 11/06/2023 at 17:11:05
Price is determined by market forces, not quality. So realistically we're not going to get 㿲M ish Chelsea paid for Kepa – but equally we should get plenty more than the 㿅m ish Arsenal paid for Ramsdale (noting that Milan, Dortmund and Villa each paid about 㾻M for Maignan, Kobel and Martinez – all of whom are valued higher than Pickford on Transfermarkt, for what it's worth).
We could, therefore, get as little as, say, 㿔M for Pickford when really he should be considered the best England goalkeeper since Seaman (and he's certainly achieved more with England than Seaman) – and only just outside the goalkeeping elite of Courtois, Alisson, Ederson and Oblak.
The only way we'll get more is, I expect, if Chelsea and / or Spurs chase his signature too.
11 Posted 11/06/2023 at 17:50:35
12 Posted 11/06/2023 at 17:54:33
㿔 million for the England Number 1 keeper to join another English Premier League team? Thank goodness you are not in charge of our negotiations.
13 Posted 11/06/2023 at 18:30:20
To my knowledge I haven't actually been materially wrong about any of the predicted sale prices. By all means call it out if I have – but the price isn't determined by what you or I think Pickford is worth. It's determined by what a buying club believes a club on its knees financially will accept.
Personally I think Pickford is "worth" (to us) 㿼M(+) but no-one is going to pay that unfortunately.
14 Posted 12/06/2023 at 02:19:52
15 Posted 12/06/2023 at 05:33:09
16 Posted 12/06/2023 at 05:39:52
Who knows? but anything under $50m would be a major disappointment
17 Posted 12/06/2023 at 06:37:27
He's had his critics at Everton, myself included.
He is not a keeper that commands his box. He rarely comes outside of the 6-yard box. He punts for territory like a Rugby Union player, the ball often going into touch.
But as a shot-stopper and instinctive goalkeeper, there aren't many better. At 29, just about to go into his prime. And he cares. The amount of times he has literally made me stop breathing as I tried to fathom how it wasn't a goal against us.
To have built his reputation at his boyhood club, who he was relegated with, and then with Everton, who he almost got relegated with twice, speaks volumes. He's done it the hard way.
Many of us questioned his temperament early doors. The Anfield moment. But he has matured over the past few seasons.
I hope this is just rumour. Having released a keeper, we would have to sign a replacement as I don't think Lonergan is the answer.
We have other priorities. Unless Pickford pushes this one (if there are legs in it), hold our nerve.
18 Posted 12/06/2023 at 09:09:54
19 Posted 12/06/2023 at 09:21:43
We always pay too much and let our assets go for less than market rates. One of the reasons we're in this shitty position.
Time to change the narrative, Everton, and no more Fluffy Bill transfers keeping his mates in the other boardrooms happy so he can rub shoulders with them after the match, pretending he's the transfer maestro. The fucking weasely fraud.
20 Posted 12/06/2023 at 09:27:05
Now obviously, had we gone down, a deal to buy him would already have been sorted, but we didn't and, as Rob Halligan said there, was allegedly a release clause in his contract had we gone down for 㿏 million so now that we didn't go down, how come the price has?
Obviously Pickford must look at the reported salary of De Gea of around 𧸌,000 per week and wouldn't mind that sort of salary that he won't get with Everton, but equally he isn't going to go anywhere as a back-up keeper.
But should Man Utd up the money and Pickford goes, maybe we should get Mason Greenwood in exchange? He ticks all the boxes: quick, strong and a regular goal scorer.
Seems since the rape allegations for which he was found not guilty, Man Utd want him to spend some time away before bringing him back in the squad. But we don't want him on loan — it must be a permanent deal.
21 Posted 12/06/2023 at 09:39:14
For fuck's sake, Heaton is 37 years old. I might as well dig me gloves out, but god knows where they are? Still, I've got a few weeks to find them! ðŸ‘ðŸ‘ðŸ‘
22 Posted 12/06/2023 at 12:52:07
Ready... oh, I bet they are.
The whole rumour market is mostly bullshit. It's still annoying though to see the "big teams" and/or their media sycophants playing their games with ludicrous under-valuations, like it will actually influence the price down.
Man Utd the other day were quoted 㿶M for a foreign keeper. Not someone whose name I recall and unlikely to be better than Pickford. Go and get fucked.
23 Posted 12/06/2023 at 13:40:23
The thing is, everybody underrates Pickford, except his team mates, Everton and Gareth Southgate. Luckily for us, that means he's less likely to leave us unless we need a fire sale.
I'd say 㿨M, thought it's not a secret that we're skint and not particularly good negotiators.
I'll take this one with a pinch of salt, like all the 'exclusive' click bait nonsense.
My policy is to pay little attention until they're wearing the shirt. Plenty of time to slate them after that point!
25 Posted 13/06/2023 at 07:49:49
Pickford, Onana and Calvert-Lewin are our most sellable assets. In view of Pickford's unpredictability, Calvert-Lewin's injury record and Onana's sheer uselessness, I would sell all three to the highest bidders.
The total amount (along with the transfer of certain others considered 'deadwood'), if spent wisely by Dyche on replacements, could provide a crucial backbone for the team and a springboard for success.
27 Posted 13/06/2023 at 09:08:39
He hasn't moaned for a move and worked his ass off to keep us up 2 years on the trot. But I wouldn't begrudge him his time in the Champions League and a crack at titles. It must piss him off seeing Ramsdale and Pope up in the Top 4.
If Man Utd offered Dean Henderson (before he goes to Forest) and Scott McTominay, then I'd snap their hands off.
28 Posted 13/06/2023 at 09:19:47
Not that he isn't good enough, just that Utd won't want to sign him. They will sign Diogo Costa instead.
29 Posted 13/06/2023 at 09:27:29
I fully expect us to be going into next season with a similar squad and one or two free transfers. Maitland-Niles, Bertrand, Perez… I can't see it being more exciting than that.
Not sure why anyone good would touch us with a barge pole. Says a lot about how low our stock is that even Zaha hasn't been linked with us after our big money offer a couple of years ago.
30 Posted 13/06/2023 at 09:29:54
Otherwise, 㿼 million or get lost.
31 Posted 13/06/2023 at 09:30:08
And I'm not sure Everton, where he is a cult hero and helped stave off relegation twice, would sell him for less than 㿙/50M.
So he will stay. And probably leave for nothing in 4 or 5 years. Which I guess is okay if he keeps playing well and keeps us in the Premier League. Ideally, well run clubs are selling off some of their prime assets before they drop in value. But then we're not well run. So far…
32 Posted 14/06/2023 at 15:56:40
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1 Posted 11/06/2023 at 12:28:01
Today's spurious rumours are Pickford, Onana sold, Gyökeres, El Bilal Toure, McTominay, in. Oh, and a goalie from somewhere.
Expect something different by tomorrow afternoon.