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16 June

Jordan Pickford to Everton

Predicted/Actual Price: 5.2m

Fee - £24.23m (with add-ons)

Primary position - Goalkeeper

Last two seasons' league form - 53 games / 17 clean sheets / 70 conceded

No Goalkeeper in the Premier League made more saves than Pickford per 90 minutes in 2016/17. The young Englishman saved an average of 4.66 shots a game, with the next best performance coming from fellow England International, Heaton, with 4.06 saves a game. A hefty price-tag, but the potential is there for all to see. Sublime performances single-handedly saving a totally inept Sunderland Defence from utter-humiliation on several occasions in 2016/17. A very adept shot stopper of both long-range and close-range shots, with a good command of his box - Often sensibly choosing to punch challenging crosses away. Long range passing is another attribute of Pickford's game which would have caught the eye of Koeman and at just 23-years-old Everton may have just found a key missing piece to their jigsaw.