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• Great post Ian - 18. I believe that JP is a down-to-earth fella and that your second paragraph is spot on. Guess what, life, the woman he married who he met when he was 14, and kids matter more than football. It's not hard to accept is it, JP loves being with us for all sorts of reasons and we are lucky to have him, even with the griping about X, Y, and Z. He's our best goalie since immortal NS. Enjoy. His best seasons are ahead of him. Enjoy....
  Paul Griffiths in Is Jordan Pickford the best goalkeeper in the Premier League?
• Agree with a lot of the comments. Brilliant saves, used to be beaten from distance, erratic, 6 yard box etc. That all being said. He's working nearly twice as hard as the top keepers. Raya has 2 more clean sheets and fewer goals conceeded less, but he's made half the saves of Pickford. Now you can say that raya has great concentration etc, but if youre untested all game, then surely you will make fewer mistakes. Pickford with an Arsenal defence and midfield in front of him, would look better. Look how he performs for England....
  Ian Bennett in Is Jordan Pickford the best goalkeeper in the Premier League?
• I was brought up with goalies often commanding the 18 yard box and not just the 6 yard box. However, as has been mentioned before, the nature or make up of the actual ball has changed over the years, e.g. now lighter, with different ones being used in different competitions, making it harder for goales to perfect their craft. Also, Jordan seems settled in the North West and if his family are happy, why move. He perhaps chooses not to look elsewhere. Whilst money and honours are important and shows ambition, I assume he's happy in life which is maybe why he seems more consistent on the pitch. ...
  Ian Jones in Is Jordan Pickford the best goalkeeper in the Premier League?
• Darren (16)Yes Darren I would question how good he is, with a good majority of Everton fans he is a special goalkeeper how does he rate with neutral supporters, nowhere near as high I’d guess. No doubt about his shot stopping — very, very good but plenty of faults to go with that aspect, temperament is still over the top and his kicking is open to question many times, as for his six yard area exploits he us still Calamity to me but that will be dismissed by most. I hope your praise doesn’t finish up as you say with a couple of clangers v Leeds to wipe out the couple of brilliant saves he makes....
  Dave Abrahams in Is Jordan Pickford the best goalkeeper in the Premier League?
• Mike@23. Can't see Wilson signing for anyone this month. He's a free agent in the summer and can ask for silly wages with no transfer fee involved....
  Paul Hewitt in How do Everton cope without Jack Grealish?
• I thought he was too easily beaten by long range efforts, but he and the coaching staff have clearly worked on this. The movement of his feet has brought him to another level. He has the lateral movement of a top class boxer. He must have taken four steps before he made that fantastic save from Morgan Rogers. He wouldnt have made that stop two years ago. I think he is still improving Is he the best in the EPL ? Well he certainly is at some aspects of the game. I know some very knowledgeable Evertonians will cast a critical eye over his game, Dave A will almost certainly ask "Does he command his box ?" and he would be right to do so. But there are no complete goalies out there today. While the bar is continually raised in many aspects of the GK position. None of them seem to have THE all around game. Pickford still makes a mistake, but so do ALL the others. He is clearly driven and he is always striving to improve. He's definitely a better keeper than the one who arrived...
  Darren Hind in Is Jordan Pickford the best goalkeeper in the Premier League?