Ring master
Player Valuation: £90m
Just to confirm what above said 
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NilSatisOptimum
Player Valuation: £60m
He has sent out a message he wont be intimated by anyone in one to one situation. In contact sport that is invaluable edge to have over opponents.
Ihaters
Player Valuation: £35m
She is amazing, has to be a covert blue... has to be a wind up surely?
Remember that challenge in 2013
? Could show worse from them every year ffs, let alone going back 7 years to challenge born out of revenge for a previous hit from their players.
"He's just doing it for attention"
Alright
He hasn't cost us a single point this season.
Not one.
To even paper over all the mistakes he's made this season with that kind of retort is madness. He didn't make any mistakes? He made a fair few that on another day costs us points.
He's currently being carried by the rest of the team - if he continues to make mistakes at the current frequency it will hurt us. I understand defending him but to play oblivious to his clear faults and rashness is baffling.
People who are claiming that wasnt a bad challenge are similar to the blinkered RS fans.
It was a bad challenge but part of football. Like the Dunk one yesterday he should have seen red.
The fallout and slanderous accusations thrown at him since by ex pros and the media is disgraceful. All because the recepient was a Liverpool player. I noticed Ryan Mason and Curtis Woodhouse have both deleted tweets since.
He's also sent out multiple messages that he will be crap at trying to save shots, so that kind of undermines him as a goalkeeper. This isn't ice hockey, mate.
Even from this picture above you can he's looking at ball.... Absolute none story this....move along now, nothing to see here.
Can we appeal??
toffee-L
Player Valuation: £20m
What has been particularly eye-opening from all this fallout is just how many pundits and football journalists don't actually know the rules of football.
No one can possibly dispute the fact that it was a wild and reckless lunge that deserved a red card, but they couldn't send him off because the ball was not in play and it was not an act of Violent Conduct where the laws of the game do allow a referee to send a player off when the game is dead.
So Pickford survived because of a technicality, but a very important technicality. It's why referees have no decision to make if a player was to deliberately bring down an attacker who's clean through on goal if they were offside. If the player was onside then yes, clear professional foul and a red card, but because he was offside the entire action in void.
It's just incredibly basic stuff. I saw an article by Martin Samuel yesterday and he actually said that Pickford could have still been sent off and actually used Slaven Bilic getting sent off at half time against us as evidence for it. In what possible way is a manager getting sent off for abusing a referee and Pickford making an honest attempt at blocking a ball that had an unfortunate consequence the same thing?
And a further point, and possibly most dementing of all, is that we have just witnessed a biased Liverpool media campaign to get Pickford retrospectively banned. Make no mistake, the FA were not looking at this incident in any way shape or form. They wouldn't have had a leg to stand on (excuse the pun) to ban Pickford retrospectively under any single law of the game. Despite that though, we've seen comparisons to Roy Keane's challenge on Haaland, pundits describing it as an 'assault' and all the rest of it. They have tried to pressure the FA to get one or our players banned without proper cause, make absolutely no mistake about that.
It's truly disgraceful how infested the media is with them.
No one can possibly dispute the fact that it was a wild and reckless lunge that deserved a red card, but they couldn't send him off because the ball was not in play and it was not an act of Violent Conduct where the laws of the game do allow a referee to send a player off when the game is dead.
So Pickford survived because of a technicality, but a very important technicality. It's why referees have no decision to make if a player was to deliberately bring down an attacker who's clean through on goal if they were offside. If the player was onside then yes, clear professional foul and a red card, but because he was offside the entire action in void.
It's just incredibly basic stuff. I saw an article by Martin Samuel yesterday and he actually said that Pickford could have still been sent off and actually used Slaven Bilic getting sent off at half time against us as evidence for it. In what possible way is a manager getting sent off for abusing a referee and Pickford making an honest attempt at blocking a ball that had an unfortunate consequence the same thing?
And a further point, and possibly most dementing of all, is that we have just witnessed a biased Liverpool media campaign to get Pickford retrospectively banned. Make no mistake, the FA were not looking at this incident in any way shape or form. They wouldn't have had a leg to stand on (excuse the pun) to ban Pickford retrospectively under any single law of the game. Despite that though, we've seen comparisons to Roy Keane's challenge on Haaland, pundits describing it as an 'assault' and all the rest of it. They have tried to pressure the FA to get one or our players banned without proper cause, make absolutely no mistake about that.
It's truly disgraceful how infested the media is with them.
"He's just doing it for attention"
Alright
He hasn't cost us a single point this season.
Not one.
This is up there with Kopite, COMICAL ALI delusion.
Embarrassing.
ArtetaMagic
Player Valuation: £15m
Well he made 2 but got away with both of them because play was called back for offside.
And in the biggest game of the season so far, the derby, it was Pickford who bailed his teammates out.
Have to disagree mistakes from him are because he's looking for attention mate.
Think that's a bonkers shout to be honest.
Do I expect him to fly out to make himself as big as he could to a man left free? Too right. Peter Schmeichel would do it every other week.
It's unfortunate. As is Van Dijk being left unmarked at the back post.
On another day Van Dijk could do Pickford's knee ligaments. On another day neither are injured. On another day, someone might be arsed to actually stay with and pickup Van Dijk at the back post.
It is remarkable, fans like you pilling on him and him alone, ignoring the good game he had and instead preferring to revert back to every mistake you can think of.
Pickford has a MOTM performance, and you're pulling him up on ifs, buts and maybes.
Blinkered.
irishtony1878
Player Valuation: £15m
That is exactly what is wrong with the game today, pricks like her getting air time.She is amazing, has to be a covert blue... has to be a wind up surely?
Remember that challenge in 2013
Someone needs to start fighting back against this media bias
ForeverBlue92
Player Valuation: £80m
The icing on the cake would be Pickford making a top save on Sunday and we win the game from it
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