I know the goalkeeper recruitment head at Manchester United.
they have approached Pickford 3 times in his words but his familyy and him being settles means more to him than moving. he genuinely loves the club and the people and ois happy here. they even offered a 150% increase in salary. this is form the man making the offers at that club.
he refused every time.
we're a bottom 4-6 club
Spurs arent a selling club, and when they do they sell on their terms
Other than Branthwaite none of those go for more than £20m and crucially none of our forwards are sought after and would get us more than £15m
The biggest problem we have is in the forward areas - I think most clubs have better attacking players than us, more pace than us
Forwards go for the big money
Thats why we sold Richie, Gordon and Iwobi
Would we be as defensively dour if we had a forward 3 of Gray, Gordon and Richarlison ?
Richarlison is massively overrated by Everton fans but he's still better than what we have
I liked Gordon, he'll never be elite as his final ball isn't good enough but again he's walking into our side
I liked Gray as well but the £10m for a lad who cost virtually nothing so was all profit was too good to turn down
I'm very sceptical about Pickford
Here's Championos league, here's £250k a week, here's to not fighting a relegation battle every season, he wouldnt even have to move house
"I want to stay at Everton" said no one ever
If United wanted him there'd be newspaper reports on why Pickford has to move for the sake of his England career etc
But none of it happened
he wasnt interested
simple as
Maybe its like Heung Min-Son - why has he never moved from Spurs, I'm sure there has been interest, he'd definitely have been able to play at a bigger club than Spurs
As for which of our players clubs would want if we went down
Pickford
Tarkowski
Branthwaite
McNeil
DCL
Garner
would all get prem moves easily
maybe only Branthwaite to a top 6 side, and DCL is ooc so arguably doesnt count.
If Ndiaye continues and doesnt get Dyched, then him too.
Also OBrien, we werent the only ones in for him, so he'd likely get another prem move.
Wholesale swap, entire squad for entire squad
Which clubs wouldnt you swap with in the prem
There are probably 7 or 8 I wouldnt swap with
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