Jordan Pickford

[Kobi]

Buffon with inflation must be 50m+.

with normal inflation or football inflation?
Juve bought him in 2001 that 33m is like 85m now in football

I'd say even higher, that summer (2001) Real paid £45.8m for Zidane, the best player in the world at the time, they have just a £103m bid rejected for someone who has basically played one season of professional football (in the French league).

 

[Garrincha]

With both factored in Juve had a monster transfer window! Buffon, Thuram, Nedved, Salas, Zenoni. 120-145m depending where you look.

 

[GDeep™]

What will happen is that no one will sign Pickford, he will stay at Sunderland, the hype will die, Sunderland won't get promotion next season and next summer Pickford leaves for 15Mish.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

What will happen is that no one will sign Pickford, he will stay at Sunderland, the hype will die, Sunderland won't get promotion next season and next summer Pickford leaves for 15Mish.

More likely he'll go to Everton thier local media said few weeks ago they are very interested to buy him and will pay 17M pounds.

 

[Kobi]

With both factored in Juve had a monster transfer window! Buffon, Thuram, Nedved, Salas, Zenoni. 120-145m depending where you look.

It was, although essentially they simply looted their rivals, same as always.
Especially annoying as that Parma team (with Buffon, Thuram, Cannavaro, Veron, Chiesa and Crespo) would have been truly epic if they could have kept it together.

 

[Malky]

I said it in the 'Szczesny thread' but if Sunderland are wanting £30M for Pickford and there's talk that Milan could sell Donnarumma for around £40-50M then I would rather we spend the extra money and sign the 'new Buffon' and have, potentially, the worlds best for the next 15 years+

 

[Mark Tobias]

If we sign this child before we get a striker and a CM I will be absolutely furious.

 

[kraphtous]

He's the new David Marshall, if we sign him it confirms our new status as a midtable club.

 

[Red London]

never understood why we want him. he will rot on our bench. if he somehow plays he wont be good enough.
szczesney should be brought back for free rather than this guy for 18-30m whatever he will cost
dont need to take gambles like that on GKs its not anything like the striker market

 

[Dokaka]

Not a big enough sample size for this guy. Wouldn't pay more than £15m.

Szczesny has looked like a boss in Italy this season so I don't see why you would even be in for a keeper. Szczesny #1, Cech as a backup. Sorted.

 

[tap-in]

Not a big enough sample size for this guy. Wouldn't pay more than £15m.

Szczesny has looked like a boss in Italy this season so I don't see why you would even be in for a keeper. Szczesny #1, Cech as a backup. Sorted.

Yep, crazy to spend money on a keeper when we have so much to sort out elsewhere. Szcz, Cech, Martinez, let Ospina go.

 

[GDeep™]

We're not even linked to him anymore.

 

[Aevi]

I don't think there is much in this, but...

 

[4R5Emaniac]

Would be a positive move. I'd be pretty damn happy if we did it since I don't expect the club to have that forward thinking nous and ruthlessness.

 

[El Granit-Coq]

We sold Szczesny to sign Pickford... Poverty stuff.

 

[Batman]

We sold Szczesny to sign Pickford... Poverty stuff.

How? Pickford is 4 years younger and arguably the better premier league keeper already. If unloading Szczesny let's us offset the cost of sorting ourselves at keeper for the next decade while retaining the funds needed to go after the likes of Mbappe then how could that possibly be anything but a positive?

 

[Tir Na Nog]

If we sell Ospina we'll probably go for Pickford, think Wenger still rates Ospina tho.

 

[Preacher]

How's Pickford's kicking and playing with his feet generally?

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

Ospina is gone too he won't stay here to play cup games he want to be number 1 too. i don't think Pickford would come here if he sit on the bench if we buy him then he should be our number 1 we not going to pay 20M for a guy to make him play only cup we could save that for outfield player and Make Martinez as our number 2.

 

[4R5Emaniac]

Martinez is not good enough to get a move at lower level football so I don't see why we should be happy with him here let alone be 2nd choice. Also we could buy Pickford and try to keep Ospina or sell him but get a veteran keeper with a good amount of top level experience for 3rd choice. Should be cheap as hell. Chelsea got Ricardo for nothing and he is a highly experienced pro sitting on the bench on the end of his career.

I don't see a problem with playing him 2nd choice and in cup games at all. Its not just signing a keeper for one season and we have to be forward thinking as well as opportunistic in the market.