“We know that our ownership of the club has been, at times, wildly unpopular and we just want you to know that in light of the feverish takeover speculation, we have listened and we have heard you. And today I’m thrilled to announce that we will finally give the fans what they’ve been begging for for years: the multi-year acquisition of Jordan Pickleford, the best GD goaltender in the Pruh-mere league.”
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They are leaking this so that we will suddenly feel okay with De Gea signing an extension aren't they...
i love how much the CAF has a hard on for hidden agendas fuelled by in house "PR" or "leaks".
So we watched Onana put up that world-class perfomace last night and someone at united thinks it's a great idea to plot a £30m move for Pickford?
What the feck is our scouting department smoking on!?
What the feck is our scouting department smoking on!?
To be fair it’s because De Gea is Schrodingers keeper. He manages to simultaneously be world class and utter shite
TalkSport nonsense does not = a shit scouting dept.
For what it's worth I'm only joking. It's just a nonsense rumour from some random journo.
Or it could be that it's not true. The media have it far too easy with fans believing everything
As I said in the other thread if we opt for Pickford as our future Goalkeeper we deserve to stay shite relative to the top teams.
It just screams no ambition
It just screams no ambition
He’s genuinely a few levels above de Gea. But would prefer the lad from Porto.
He is worse at ball playing, shot stoping than DDG. The only reason for us to sign him is to ensure DDG stays number one.
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Hes not worse at ball playing than DDG.
This is our answer to Ten Hag's request for a ball playing goalkeeper? Laughable. The recruitment team at Manchester United is completely lost. Reset your expectations. We are not going to be anywhere near the title next season if Pickford and Mount are the players we are thinking to give Ten Hag.
Jesus Christ lads would seriously be happy with Jordan Pickford 
The only reason he's still playing for England is he's one of Southgates favourites like Maguire
The only reason he's still playing for England is he's one of Southgates favourites like Maguire
Murtough deserves sacking, as does Ten Hag, if we sign Pickford.
Loving the outrage in here.
Sack em all!
Sack em all!
We aren’t signing Pickford for fecksake.
This club will be waving the white flag to competing at the top if we sign this clown.
A girl at my work has been saying for months she knows somebody at Utd and we would sign Pickford this summer. I've been laughing it off..... God I hope she's wrong.
Another Brexit Jim target surely
This thread is further proof to me that, whilst it may well be true that us English fans overhype some of our players, we also massively downplay quite a few others.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not entirely sold on the idea that Pickford is the best solution to our goalkeeper problem right now. How he'd transition from a side in which he's evidently under tactical instruction to predominantly go long with his kicks to one where he'd need to demonstrate more range and judgement with his choice of passes is, in my view, an entirely reasonable concern.
Furthermore, I'm also not a massive fan of the idea of having both Pickford and De Gea on the roster. I can somewhat see the logic behind keeping De Gea around to ease the pressure on a younger goalkeeper like Diogo Costa or Bart Verbruggen, or even just a goalkeeper who isn't used to the pressure that comes with being United's first choice keeper like David Raya. That logic somewhat falls apart if the keeper you're signing is a 29 year old who has been England's number one for the best part of the last decade. It seems inevitable in that scenario that one of the two would end up being a needlessly expensive back-up.
With all that said, I don't understand the sentiment shared by many fans that Pickford just outright isn't a good goalkeeper. This is strange to me given that the overwhelming consensus among Everton fans, who whilst having obvious biases are also the fans who watch him the most, is entirely the opposite. His shot stopping does raise question marks (although this season it's actually been very strong), and he doesn't have massively high numbers for stopping crosses either, but he has consistently shown himself to be a proactive goalkeeper for Everton and considering that he's asked to launch so many of his passes, he is also very accurate when doing so which plays a part in him earning a reputation for being good with the ball.
Overall, as I've said, Pickford isn't my number one choice for the goalkeeper position this summer. However, IF he were to be available for the reported £30 million, I do also think the deal would represent fairly reasonable value and that he'd be quite a considerable upgrade on De Gea.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not entirely sold on the idea that Pickford is the best solution to our goalkeeper problem right now. How he'd transition from a side in which he's evidently under tactical instruction to predominantly go long with his kicks to one where he'd need to demonstrate more range and judgement with his choice of passes is, in my view, an entirely reasonable concern.
Furthermore, I'm also not a massive fan of the idea of having both Pickford and De Gea on the roster. I can somewhat see the logic behind keeping De Gea around to ease the pressure on a younger goalkeeper like Diogo Costa or Bart Verbruggen, or even just a goalkeeper who isn't used to the pressure that comes with being United's first choice keeper like David Raya. That logic somewhat falls apart if the keeper you're signing is a 29 year old who has been England's number one for the best part of the last decade. It seems inevitable in that scenario that one of the two would end up being a needlessly expensive back-up.
With all that said, I don't understand the sentiment shared by many fans that Pickford just outright isn't a good goalkeeper. This is strange to me given that the overwhelming consensus among Everton fans, who whilst having obvious biases are also the fans who watch him the most, is entirely the opposite. His shot stopping does raise question marks (although this season it's actually been very strong), and he doesn't have massively high numbers for stopping crosses either, but he has consistently shown himself to be a proactive goalkeeper for Everton and considering that he's asked to launch so many of his passes, he is also very accurate when doing so which plays a part in him earning a reputation for being good with the ball.
Overall, as I've said, Pickford isn't my number one choice for the goalkeeper position this summer. However, IF he were to be available for the reported £30 million, I do also think the deal would represent fairly reasonable value and that he'd be quite a considerable upgrade on De Gea.
thank goodness this is on TalkShite - Kelvin MacKenzie radio only ever talks total bollox
He's shit at collecting crosses and his passing on the ground is below average. His shot-stopping can look incredible but he let in a lot of goals where you feel a bigger keeper could've done better.
He would be only a slight upgrade on De Gea due to his sweeping.
He would be only a slight upgrade on De Gea due to his sweeping.
I hope this is a fecking joke. I hate Pickford at the atomic level.
It would have barely made any sense to sing him if he was a free agent, absolutely no sense to pay 30 mil for him...
If that happens, next year they will have the exact opposite opinion, but such is life of a football fan.
I would be good value to get Pickford to see him do his 20x game charging up to ridicule the defenders when a shot come in, only for Licha to have had enough and deck him on the 18 yard line.
His ‘outgoing’ personality has a lot to do with it. If he wasn’t so in-your-face everyone would be talking about his upsides
Just don't not today
Horrible player to be linked to/with
Another shotstopper
boring fake rumour
we don’t have much evidence of it on Pickford, as Everton typically never tried to play out of the back. Pickford can really ping a ball, but for us, who would he ping it to? He might spring Rashford in behind a few times but that stops working as soon as teams sit just a little deeper to take that pass out of the equation.
If this is just more clickbait drivel from SpoutShite well done, but if United really are in for Jordan Pickford what a clusterfukc of a club we’ve become.
Rumours could be leaked by the buying club, the selling club or the player. Each party has a different motive, and I would not get too worried / excited until there is something more concrete. Last year ETH brought in players to suit his style, and I am sure he will do the same again.
He doesn't need to ping it every time. The fact that he's capable of not making stupid feck ups with square passes more times than DDG is already an improvement.
He's awful, feck off
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