MaximusEvertonius
Player Valuation: £15m
Every match I’m consistently reminded how grateful I am that he’s our keeper and that he loves playing for Everton.
Ged G
Player Valuation: £8m
Good post, totally agreeGiven Jordan Pickford is England No 1 it seems a bit fanciful to think he's underrated.
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But here he was making his 300th Premier League appearance and making top quality crucial saves to keep Everton in a game they were only really in from once the second half began.
Pickford made two quick fire saves in the opening two minutes and was doing his level best to keep a disjointed Everton close enough in the game to stage a comeback, even when Munoz broke the deadlock.
Without Pickford's heroics, not least keeping out a point-blank effort from inside the six-yard box from Marc Guehi in the early Palace onslaught, this would have been a game Everton had no hope of coming back in.
Palace fans goaded him with chants of 'England's No 1' towards his opposite number Dean Henderson but it was Pickford who had the last laugh.
It still got me thinking as to where he ranks in the Premier League because when the league's top goalkeepers get discussed it is always the likes of Alisson Becker and David Raya that get brought up.
Pickford is as good as any goalkeeper in this league and here was the latest example as to why.
Benicetoourboys
Player Valuation: £8m
Love him & Neville Southall equally now.
No, changed my mind its Jordan Pickford cos he's saved us the last few years & I love his personality too.
No, changed my mind its Jordan Pickford cos he's saved us the last few years & I love his personality too.
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NilSatisOptimum
Player Valuation: £70m
Was funny when he turned round and thanked the Palace fans for chanting "England's Number One", they shut up pretty quick.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
And, it begins. 
The England No 1 can move clear of the great Gordon Banks by claiming a record eighth clean sheet in a row against Wales on Thursday
October 07, 2025 6:01 pm
Pickford has been England’s No 1 since the 2018 World Cup (Photo: Getty)
Only one man has played in goal for England more than Jordan Pickford.
The great Peter Shilton is the country’s all-time most capped player – in any position – with 125 appearances but you have to go nearly 50 more matches down the list until you find Pickford on 78.
The mid-seventies has been a bit of a high watermark for previous goalkeepers: Joe Hart, David Seaman and Gordon Banks all passed 70, yet Pickford looks destined to go well beyond them. He is undeniably England’s No 1, and has been for the best part of a decade.
His domination of the position under Gareth Southgate and now seemingly under Thomas Tuchel has provided stability at the back, upon which England have reached more major finals and semi-finals than at any point in their history. Southgate handed debuts to five other keepers, but only Nick Pope has made it to double figures for England, with 10 caps.
The Everton keeper has started every Premier League game so far this season (Photo: Getty)
The upshot is that should England find themselves without Pickford at next year’s World Cup, there is a worrying lack of international experience among the potential replacements.
And given Pickford’s statistically poor start to the season – his decent display against Crystal Palace notwithstanding – it is possible this is the season he loses that iron-clad grip on his place.
“It is a fight for every position, there is no exception for goalkeepers,” Tuchel promised in June. Now he needs to show he is true to his word, and give someone else a chance to stake a claim.
There can be little argument that Pickford is the man in form. While the Everton keeper led the Premier League in “goals prevented” last season (a statistic based on the post-shot expected goals of every shot a keeper has faced), he languishes eighth in that same table this campaign.
Now the sample size is smaller, but of the seven ahead of him, four are English: Pope, Sam Johnstone, James Trafford and Dean Henderson, who leads the league with 2.9 goals prevented.
The Crystal Palace keeper also finished fourth overall in the Premier League last season, helping them to FA Cup victory and a place in Europe. Yet the 28-year-old has just three England caps to his name, and only one of those – a 3-1 win away to Finland – has been earned in a competitive fixture, and most recently he featured when England were beaten by Senegal.
Archetypically, Henderson is a very good fit to be Pickford’s back-up. In the Premier League last season, only Nottingham Forest launched long from the goalkeeper more often than Everton, and Crystal Palace were just behind the Toffees.
This year, both Pickford and Henderson are going long approximately 50 per cent of the time in open play, and although the former has a higher completion rate on long balls of 39 per cent to his understudy’s 29, it is clear that their default style of play in possession is quite similar, and their percentages of goal kicks taken long are also well aligned. It’s a like-for-like swap.
But Henderson still has not had the same kind of exposure to the extreme high pressure that comes with playing for England at a World Cup, or even close, while Pickford has started in two Euros finals and a World Cup semi-final.
For Pickford, a friendly against Wales and a trip to Latvia represents little more than an opportunity to break the record for consecutive England clean sheets that he holds tied with Banks on seven. For Henderson, they would be invaluable opportunities to make himself more comfortable in an England shirt, a distinctly alien experience with three caps in five years.
By next summer, there could be significant clamour for Henderson to start, on current form. But for it to be a convincing argument, he needs to be given more chances now.
England have a Jordan Pickford problem
The England No 1 can move clear of the great Gordon Banks by claiming a record eighth clean sheet in a row against Wales on Thursday
October 07, 2025 6:01 pm
Only one man has played in goal for England more than Jordan Pickford.
The great Peter Shilton is the country’s all-time most capped player – in any position – with 125 appearances but you have to go nearly 50 more matches down the list until you find Pickford on 78.
The mid-seventies has been a bit of a high watermark for previous goalkeepers: Joe Hart, David Seaman and Gordon Banks all passed 70, yet Pickford looks destined to go well beyond them. He is undeniably England’s No 1, and has been for the best part of a decade.
His domination of the position under Gareth Southgate and now seemingly under Thomas Tuchel has provided stability at the back, upon which England have reached more major finals and semi-finals than at any point in their history. Southgate handed debuts to five other keepers, but only Nick Pope has made it to double figures for England, with 10 caps.
The upshot is that should England find themselves without Pickford at next year’s World Cup, there is a worrying lack of international experience among the potential replacements.
And given Pickford’s statistically poor start to the season – his decent display against Crystal Palace notwithstanding – it is possible this is the season he loses that iron-clad grip on his place.
“It is a fight for every position, there is no exception for goalkeepers,” Tuchel promised in June. Now he needs to show he is true to his word, and give someone else a chance to stake a claim.
There can be little argument that Pickford is the man in form. While the Everton keeper led the Premier League in “goals prevented” last season (a statistic based on the post-shot expected goals of every shot a keeper has faced), he languishes eighth in that same table this campaign.
Now the sample size is smaller, but of the seven ahead of him, four are English: Pope, Sam Johnstone, James Trafford and Dean Henderson, who leads the league with 2.9 goals prevented.
The Crystal Palace keeper also finished fourth overall in the Premier League last season, helping them to FA Cup victory and a place in Europe. Yet the 28-year-old has just three England caps to his name, and only one of those – a 3-1 win away to Finland – has been earned in a competitive fixture, and most recently he featured when England were beaten by Senegal.
Archetypically, Henderson is a very good fit to be Pickford’s back-up. In the Premier League last season, only Nottingham Forest launched long from the goalkeeper more often than Everton, and Crystal Palace were just behind the Toffees.
This year, both Pickford and Henderson are going long approximately 50 per cent of the time in open play, and although the former has a higher completion rate on long balls of 39 per cent to his understudy’s 29, it is clear that their default style of play in possession is quite similar, and their percentages of goal kicks taken long are also well aligned. It’s a like-for-like swap.
But Henderson still has not had the same kind of exposure to the extreme high pressure that comes with playing for England at a World Cup, or even close, while Pickford has started in two Euros finals and a World Cup semi-final.
For Pickford, a friendly against Wales and a trip to Latvia represents little more than an opportunity to break the record for consecutive England clean sheets that he holds tied with Banks on seven. For Henderson, they would be invaluable opportunities to make himself more comfortable in an England shirt, a distinctly alien experience with three caps in five years.
By next summer, there could be significant clamour for Henderson to start, on current form. But for it to be a convincing argument, he needs to be given more chances now.
He could have just said “it is probably a good idea for us to get some experience for the backup keepers in low pressure games just in case Pickford gets an injury” and many would agree with him.
Instead he has to bash Pickford’s performances so far this season and suggest he is a problem that will need replacing for the World Cup!!!
Instead he has to bash Pickford’s performances so far this season and suggest he is a problem that will need replacing for the World Cup!!!
Hinchcliffe's Corner
Player Valuation: £50m
Jesus wept.
terryefc
Player Valuation: £10m
And, it begins.
England have a Jordan Pickford problem
The England No 1 can move clear of the great Gordon Banks by claiming a record eighth clean sheet in a row against Wales on Thursday
October 07, 2025 6:01 pm
Pickford has been England’s No 1 since the 2018 World Cup (Photo: Getty)
Only one man has played in goal for England more than Jordan Pickford.
The great Peter Shilton is the country’s all-time most capped player – in any position – with 125 appearances but you have to go nearly 50 more matches down the list until you find Pickford on 78.
The mid-seventies has been a bit of a high watermark for previous goalkeepers: Joe Hart, David Seaman and Gordon Banks all passed 70, yet Pickford looks destined to go well beyond them. He is undeniably England’s No 1, and has been for the best part of a decade.
His domination of the position under Gareth Southgate and now seemingly under Thomas Tuchel has provided stability at the back, upon which England have reached more major finals and semi-finals than at any point in their history. Southgate handed debuts to five other keepers, but only Nick Pope has made it to double figures for England, with 10 caps.
The Everton keeper has started every Premier League game so far this season (Photo: Getty)
The upshot is that should England find themselves without Pickford at next year’s World Cup, there is a worrying lack of international experience among the potential replacements.
And given Pickford’s statistically poor start to the season – his decent display against Crystal Palace notwithstanding – it is possible this is the season he loses that iron-clad grip on his place.
“It is a fight for every position, there is no exception for goalkeepers,” Tuchel promised in June. Now he needs to show he is true to his word, and give someone else a chance to stake a claim.
There can be little argument that Pickford is the man in form. While the Everton keeper led the Premier League in “goals prevented” last season (a statistic based on the post-shot expected goals of every shot a keeper has faced), he languishes eighth in that same table this campaign.
Now the sample size is smaller, but of the seven ahead of him, four are English: Pope, Sam Johnstone, James Trafford and Dean Henderson, who leads the league with 2.9 goals prevented.
The Crystal Palace keeper also finished fourth overall in the Premier League last season, helping them to FA Cup victory and a place in Europe. Yet the 28-year-old has just three England caps to his name, and only one of those – a 3-1 win away to Finland – has been earned in a competitive fixture, and most recently he featured when England were beaten by Senegal.
Archetypically, Henderson is a very good fit to be Pickford’s back-up. In the Premier League last season, only Nottingham Forest launched long from the goalkeeper more often than Everton, and Crystal Palace were just behind the Toffees.
This year, both Pickford and Henderson are going long approximately 50 per cent of the time in open play, and although the former has a higher completion rate on long balls of 39 per cent to his understudy’s 29, it is clear that their default style of play in possession is quite similar, and their percentages of goal kicks taken long are also well aligned. It’s a like-for-like swap.
But Henderson still has not had the same kind of exposure to the extreme high pressure that comes with playing for England at a World Cup, or even close, while Pickford has started in two Euros finals and a World Cup semi-final.
For Pickford, a friendly against Wales and a trip to Latvia represents little more than an opportunity to break the record for consecutive England clean sheets that he holds tied with Banks on seven. For Henderson, they would be invaluable opportunities to make himself more comfortable in an England shirt, a distinctly alien experience with three caps in five years.
By next summer, there could be significant clamour for Henderson to start, on current form. But for it to be a convincing argument, he needs to be given more chances now.
What nonsense.
Pickford is the best around by a distance. Never let us or England down.
Every day I'm thankful we have him in goal. One of the greatest signings we've ever made - in any era.
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