Pickford looks very talented, but to be the GK of a lower team like Stoke is different than to be a GK of a top team which don’t receive 20/30 shots per game.
In my humble opinion Pickford has been very good, but is Cech a better player. Two decisive shots, two great saves.
I’m with Arsène, we don’t need another GK, especially with this Cech, with a Szczesny ready to come back and Martinez.
This would be a good signing.
He can learn a lot from Cech, who was one of the best GK’s in Europe, and still get games in the LC and Europa League.
He is probably the best young GK in the PL and if Szczesney both Ospina leave we need a keeper to replace them.
With the 14m we’ll get for Szczesney, Pickford isn’t going to cost that much more.
If those players actually added something sure. Not too say Pickford won’t, but how many of the English talents we had over the past five years are actually good going great?
Let’s expand that question. How many English players for that category at all?
If we want a 25 man squad we’ve got to have 8 home grown and for the most part those will be English so its a trade off we don’t get too wrong imo…at least no worse than other teams anyway.
That said, would still prefer to keep Ches over pickford
I do feel like our English players have been more overhyped, and have been a bigger disappointment because of that, than the foreigners. That doesn’t give the most confidence in a possible signing of Pickford. Who probably is going to be Cech successor if we sign him.
Fair enough.
I did mean us but I must admit I didn’t think any club would pay that sort of money for a young GK with potential.
Maybe Everton are more ambitious than us.