Pickford confirmed as 'keeper signs five-year deal

Sending someone out to complete it shows that the club want business done.

Not to mention his distribution... the best I've ever seen! Slot him in at central midfield when we need to. ;)

I can imagine Bill in the past, "Don't worry about it darling, he can sign on his triumphant return!"

Plus with Walsh going to Milan as well as his meeting with Sandro, we aren't fucking about. Ronald was no doubt pissed off in the summer with our amateurish approach so it looks like we are finally getting our act together.

My only worry is that this lad has only ever played for struggling clubs, keeping busy during matches. Concentration is a key asset for keepers in top clubs, being unused for 20 minutes but then having to switch on. Fingers crossed he's up to it but either way it's certainly an encouraging signal of intent; going out to buy the highly rated Eng U21 keeper and getting it wrapped up pretty quickly.

Excellent that we are pushing the agenda and getting the deal done too.

NSNO is back.

I have no complaints about Robles's tenure with us – he deputed very competently for both Howard and Stekelenburg, and I personally thought given time and a settled run of games, he would prove to be a good (and cheap) long term 'keeper or Everton. Not to be, but no regrets.

I am excited about us getting a top goalkeeper who will hopefully turn out to be our next Neville Southall. Given Robles excellent stats (10 clean sheets last year in about 30 starts), he should go for a decent fee – at least £10 million surely for a mid-table Premier League club or a Continental league.

If he is the real deal and we get over a decades service from him, it will definitely be money well spent.

Welcome to our glorious future, Jordan!

I agree re Robles. I defo think we must aim to keep him – we need quality cover for our no.1, especially with Europa League & domestic cup games leading to a very congested schedule at times.

I'm still hoping we can persuade Rom to stay – if he does, we still need additional strikers for similar reasons.

Anyway, onwards and upwards.

There has been more pressing needs than a new keeper, eg, a player good enough to score goals and some players to improve the backline.

Now we're in a slightly better place the keeper is paramount. It's interesting to note the stats comparing our two keepers to Pickford highlight Robles has extremely similar states as Pickford and, in some key areas, is better.

Jordan Pickford: Everton's 㿊m deal worth the money – Peter Shilton

My greatest wish is that we continue to make sufficient progress with quality signings so that he and others can realise their football dreams with Everton thus propelling our club to its former mantle of BIG GUN.

Everything is possible!

UP THE BLUES

I agree, I had huge hopes for Robles. Each time he breaks into the team he seems excellent. Then for some reason, as soon as he secures his place as #1, he has a nightmare.

Happy to keep him on as #2, but at 27 he must be feeling the urgency to find first-team football somewhere.

Who would have thought 3 years ago that we would be spending 㿊M on a new keeper? We thought paying 㾻M for Fellaini back in 2008 was crazy money but 9 years later it's up to double that now for a good keeper.

㿅M for Bolasie and 㿀 for Schneiderlin seem to be the average rate now for a first team regular player.

I wonder will we pay over 㿞M for a striker in this window. I think we might... but who?

Anthony (#27) Sorry pal but a top keeper should always be your first signing, unless you have one already. A top keeper will organise the defence better, and he will give them more confidence to the team. He is the head at the top of the spine. Then you build through the middle.

I also hope we keep Robles, he is a good back-up. Sadly though he won't want to be a back-up, which I don't blame him for.

Doesn't leave Martinez with much of a legacy when you consider that Coleman, Jags, Baines and Mirallas are still around.

Next up, I'd have liked Maguire but Keane will do. After that, the midfield playmaker needs selecting. So far so good.

Sort out the spine and that will do for me. The rest of the positions can wait for now. We need to replace Rom but that's a given. Jordan Pickford, though – I'm made up!

Exciting summer to be a Blue.

Welcome to the land of Blue, Jordan!!!

I don't agree with you regarding Robles's performances last season. He made a few blunders but he was generally solid and saved our defense on a number of occasions. Not sure what is 1-on-1 save rate was but it must have been pretty dang good.

Statistically he was on par with Pickford in almost every area and in some better than Pickford. And Pickford made his own blunders by the way, just one less than Robles leading to a goal (3 vs Robles's 4).

Still not 100% sure about Pickford but I hope he proves he can handle the pressure and become the Number 1 we've been missing since Martyn and Big Nev.

On Transfer Deadline Day, we can kick our shoes off and watch everyone else go through what we have for years. Keep it coming and everything sorted before the start of the season.

I think this, along with the Sandro transfer, will be the best bit of business seen in the premiership this year.

Exciting times ahead .

Bring me Balotelli next to really get the place buzzing!!!!

As for his legacy, that's the very healthy bank balance, particularly after we bank the Lukaku money. For all that he did wrong in Seasons 2 and 3, at least he left the team in such a way that Koeman could sell one player (Stones) and rebuild the team enough to return us to the top 7, and now (we all hope) that he can build on that with the many millions that were not at Martinez's disposal to take us into the top 4.

Good luck to him.

I think Sandro though is just having a look around at his options before deciding. He knows plenty of Champions League teams would happily take him on board so I reckon he won't be signing for anyone any time soon.

I expect Klaassen to be next.

The Club's TV cut has quadrupled since Moyes was in charge but 㿊M is still ridiculous for a novice keeper. I suspect all player values will be up by a good 60% on last season so don't wonder at signing no-marks for around that figure – as we surely will!

Yes, a keeper sometimes makes a cock-up but the same old complaints were becoming a bit stale and blaming the last line of defence is a cop-out.

Now that Everton have been out and spent the big money on a new stopper who is rated very highly by everyone, let's all get behind him and give him a chance to show what he can do to make the Blues contenders again.

Ahhh, I get it! You are frightened you will have nothing to moan about come deadline day, so you are getting it in now.

Welcome, Jordan, let's hope you can emulate some of the greats that have worn our No 1 jersey.

Pickford is a promising young keeper and no more. Try and keep things in perspective, please!

I just hope he is to be the understudy for Sandro Ramirez!

Seriously, if this is the start of new players coming in, I reckon a good start and grounds for optimism surely.

If he becomes as good as they think he could and England's top keeper, then it would have been harder to secure him, hence we have jumped in smartly and quickly ahead of would-be future competitors.

Yep. Big Gloves.

Early days yet, and only when the window closes will we truly be able to declare if Everton is still a sell-to-buy club, but this year's model appears very different from previous years.

Some expressed concern that Koeman's targets would be seasoned pros in the 27-/28-year-old age group on the back of one comment he made towards the end of the season.

Pickford (and other rumoured targets) belong in a different profile to that.

I'm encouraged that Everton has bet large on youth and potential for a position that is hard to gauge on the back of one full season in the Premier League with the worst team in the league.

The lad has ability. That is evident. Is he the finished article? Far from it.

But one thing I find striking in him and something I hope is very much at the forefront of many of this summer's signing is: He has an edge to him. Have you seen him celebrate a good save? Berate his (senior) defence? Screaming instructions? Because he has that side to him.

The more narks with a winning mentality we have in the squad, the better we will be for it.

Welcome, Jordan. Now wow us!

Think of it as good business more than the old fashioned Moyes/Kenwright sell-to-buy policy.

That could represent good business.

But as of today, 15 June 2017, that is all purely speculative. There are some in your list of possible departures I would rather retain to enhance the incoming, rather than sell them to help pay for new arrivals.

As I said, not only in my previous post in this thread, but consistently: we can only judge the summer dealings overall once the window closes.

More signings like Pickford and I for one will be content on that aspect of our ins and outs.

Everton have to sell to buy because our non-broadcast revenue isn't particularly large, so player trading profits are important in this respect. Selling Ross Barkley for 㿔m, for example, allows that 㿔m to be spent on player wages.

It isn't a case of not having the money to buy players, which was the case before we had Moshiri, and before the broadcast revenues went through the roof. It's a case of having to comply with Premier League regulations on player wages. In order for a club to vastly increase it's wage bill, it must do so without using TV money, but rather by demonstrating increased commercial revenue.

If he becomes England's top 'keeper, he wont be with us long. The vultures will definitely circle...

Hope you have a long successful stint between the sticks.

Is anyone still doubting the Moshiri Revival? ("Revolution", may be too strong a word.)

Best available 'keeper imo: Butland having a year out plus Stoke wouldn't sell, Heaton is a bit small and much older, Foster not as good, Hart on the slide and would want huge waves.

As for Robles, last season was his big opportunity and, despite some good performances, he didn't convince. Not good enough for a side with (gulp) top 4 aspirations.