Confirmed Signing Jonas Lossl

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Player Valuation: £30m
So who is this lad then?


Everton are in talks to bring Huddersfield goalkeeper Jonas Lossl to Goodison Park this summer.

But would the Dane be stepping into the toughest job in football?

Jordan Pickford isn't just Everton's first choice goalkeeper, he's his country's number one.

Last season Pickford played all but two of Everton's 42 matches - including every Premier League match.

The previous campaign, when Everton were in Europe, he started 46 of the Blues 51 matches - including every Premier League match.

First choice goalkeepers don't like giving up first team outings.

Between 1988 and 1993 the legendary Neville Southall made 215 consecutive Everton appearances.

Such was his appetite for first team football, when Howard Kendall held the number one board up after 62 minutes at Manchester City on the final day of the 1992/93 season to give Jason Kearton some much needed exposure - after all Everton were 4-1 up - he argued bitterly.

He had earlier enjoyed a run of 136 consecutive appearances between 1983 and 1985, then between 1994 and 1997 put together another 106 match sequence.

Between 2007 and 2013 Tim Howard enjoyed a run of 210 consecutive Premier League appearances, seeing off a succession of pretenders to his goalkeeping throne.

Back up keeper can be the loneliest, most frustrating position at a football club.

Former Watford keeper Richard Lee told the BBC in 2014: "Most footballers are driven and want to play. I don't think there are any number two goalkeepers out there loving life.

"It's more of a feeling of frustration, guilt and discontentment, and you also get self-doubt and a lack of confidence."

But it doesn't have to be that way.

Nigel Martyn was signed as an Everton back up, and became regarded as possibly the Blues finest keeper of the Premier League era.
 

Probably the best back up keeper available.

Unless you want a lad who has never played a senior game as your number two.

Sound signing this.

You won’t be saying that when he lets one through his legs in the league cup 3rd round and we get dumped out again....
 


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