Man United keeper targeted by Championship side amid interest from Everton, Bournemouth and Sunderland by Jamie Wilkinson Aston Villa are preparing an offer to sign Manchester United goalkeeper Sam Johnstone on a permanent basis. Johnstone is a product of Man United’s illustrious academy, and despite being shipped out on loan nine times by his boyhood club, he has never made an appearance for the club’s first-team. The most successful loan for Johnstone so far in his career has been with Aston Villa, where he is now. It appears as though Villa have been so impressed with his performances this campaign that they want him to stick around permanently. The Sun report that Aston Villa will offer Man United £3million in exchange for the 24-year-old. They note that Villa are not alone in the race to sign Johnstone, with Premier League sides Everton, Bournemouth and Sunderland all keen to secure his services in the upcoming transfer window. It remains to be seen whether any of those sides will make their interest concrete. The post Man United keeper targeted by Championship side amid interest from Everton, Bournemouth and Sunderland appeared first on CaughtOffside. Pickford, meanwhile, is rated at £15million and it’s claimed Koeman ‘has made the first serious move’ in the race for his signature, with Arsenal, Tottenham and Manchester City also keen. looks like there may be a deal in place for the summer with Sam Johnstone and cash for Pickford,which ever league we are in
Pickford's worth a lot more than fifteen mil. If anyone wants him they'll have to pay proper money, otherwise a year (best case scenario) of regular football in the Championship wouldn't do his development any harm.
If I were Sunderland I'd only be entertaining offers of over thirty mil, a blind man could see how good he's going to be, he's English which automatically adds value and the transfer market has gone nuts in recent years. Worth every penny of forty mil for me in today's market but I don't see us getting that much tbh. If we sell him for **** all I'm going to struggle to cling onto my sanity.
With my positive head as we'll be in the premiership next year he'll want to stay - I'm not going down the negative (or realistic ?) road... .. yet - After all we are only in a dip on the Sunderland rollercoaster -
I get the feeling that when we're twenty points away from safety with one game left you'll be holding out hope for mass disqualifications. Fair play though it beats being miserable.
Hoping for a bidding war for Pickford. Anything less than £25m and we should tell clubs to foxtrot is oscar. I'm hoping we can raise about £50m in player sales and by pretty much eradicating the crippling wage bill we might actually be able to shape a new squad, hopefully under a new hungry ambitious manager
Sam Johnstone is more than capable of playing at this level, he's a very good goalkeeper imo. I think I'd rather have him as back up to De Gea than Romero to be honest.
Whatever League we are in next Season, you can be sure that Pickford, if he stays, will be our first choice Keeper. And with the extra experience he will get to improve. Even his biggest Fans, and that includes me, are not going to claim that he is the finished article YET. IF, and it's a big IF, he gets decent advice he will stay for a while more. After all he is only 23, a bairn in Keeping terms. Moving to a 'big club' carries risks. Mistakes are not easily forgiven, particularly if you are carrying the weight of a heavy transfer fee. The competition is fierce and long spells on the bench can become a reality. Look at Joe Hart or Petre Cech (at Chelsea).
Not the last bit but I'd rather end up gutted by being positive than negative - we've still a great chance -3 or 4 pts in our next 2 games followed by a lucky or not 3pts off Man U as Dour Dave loses his negative baggage -unbeaten run continues - if not feeder league beckons as the fat one sings our tune
Pickford is a local lad and a massive Sunderland fan and if he moves it will be others calling the tune. As you say the experience of constant first team football at his local club would be invaluable to him - he would be a crowd favourite and no pressure for any development errors. I feel he should stay at least till Christmas IF we go down.
Bain wont let Picks go on the cheap. He appears to be our very own Levy. A class 1 c*nt who wont be f*cked about.
£50m is a good chunk. I can see £25m for Pickford but not many others of good value. Defoe would go for a smallish amount I suspect. If you go down - and the clock is ticking for a revival - then you have a young core in the squad which is easy to forget. Kone, Borini, Khazri will go (perhaps £25m+ there if you can find the right buyers) and i actually think you will keep some of the others, especially ones you may assume will go. Larsson, Januzaj, Denayer, Manquillo, Lescott and possibly Pienaar and O'Shea would go drift off. The key thing would be to build next season around the likes of Watmore, Asoro, Love, McNair, NDong, Anichebe, Gooch, Rodwell, Kirchoff, Honeyman, Cattermole and Mannone.
We need more ****s at the club, especially on the pitch. Our **** ratio is lower than every other team in the league it seems to me.
Even Catts is too nice these days, I'm thinking more along the lines of Yacob from West Brom, the kind of player that the opposition hates going up against. Catts is a decent player but he's not striking fear in anyone.
