 Welcome to Toffy TV, we're going to talk about Jordan Pickford, who I think has had a great start of the season, he said he's spoken to the manager, he's had a bit of a heart to heart, feels like he's matured a little bit and he's looking to keep that place now for England and have that competition for England but before we get into it I just want to show you this video. OK, this is a surprise. Just strange when you see other people's opinions on your players. So, anybody that you think within the current England setup that we should potentially ship out, not potentially, definitely, Jordan Pickford. Listen, when you're a centre back, you want to know your keeper behind you was calm, he's ready, he's got your back, he couldn't even touch the bar. So, I mean, you know, I'm not being funny, that red day is just talking out of his arse, let's be honest. He's fallen into the trap of listening to other people who are as little educated as he is on footballers. So, why don't people just watch football and listen to make their own minds? This is what my problem is. Don't listen to fans of the club that they play for because sometimes they can be biased or sometimes they just notice the flaws. Don't listen to fans of Liverpool fans who obviously try every cut because they've got Alice and they think that he's much better, blah, blah, blah. Just make your own minds up. Impressions there, the spares lad. Seriously, stop trying to be funny because you're not funny, you're just not funny. You're just not funny, you're not funny. You're doing a bad impression of troops, basically, that's all you're doing. And you just watch football, stop watching people talking about football and watch football because honestly, your opinions are absolutely diabolical. So, even put Jack Butland in the same conversation as Jordan Pickford now. It's five goalies better than Jack Butland. Two years ago, had a look at that and gone, well, they're even and Butland plays in the Premier League. Butland's having a hard time at Stoker's, it is. His own manager said that he's having problems. He's not concentrating, he's got his mind elsewhere. He's nowhere near the level. Is he even in the England squad? No, he's not. Nicky Pope and Tom Heaton are much better goalies than Jack Butland. If you go to this somebody who hasn't even got, who can't even pay attention to what's happening in the England squad, Pope is the nearest goalkeeper to Jordan Pickford. He missed last season, so you'd have to see how he goes this season. About two years ago, I remember Pope's older than Jordan Pickford and he's had much, many more games in goal and he has. You know, you've got to look at Pickford and he's, what, 26 now? He's 25 now, 26. He's making improvements all the time. He's working with the Ferry Highly, he's a goalkeeper and a huge wall of air who's the goalkeeper coach for Jan Arblach and Edison at Benfica. So, he's not even at the prime age for a goalkeeper yet. So, I can't see any goal. So, there's no English goalie currently who's in the same... Absolutely load of nonsense. If you want to go and watch more of that video, I mean, I would be amazed about what the other opinions are on players. Go and check out the full videos at 888sportchannel. Make sure you put your thoughts in the comments and have a little look. I'll definitely be giving you a like and backing you up in the comments if you put something in the comments, but unbelievable. Impressions need to start doing impressions of someone who actually watches football, because honestly, and as for the red, I've never had so much dros in your life. You might want to stop listening to people's podcasts and start watching football mate, because honestly, your opinions are absolutely woeful. On a goalkeeper, and as we're saying there, Pickford started the season really well. I think the saves are crystal palace. I wouldn't say it's settled them down, but obviously he came out to the back in the last season. The Newcastle game was a low point, but I think it might have been a turning point. I don't know what it might have been. He went into the Nations League. He obviously saved the penalty and scored the penalty, which obviously meant his confidence would have been sky high. He's come back. He made a couple of really big saves in the first game against crystal palace. He made a really big save against Wofford when it was 1-0. Not much he could do against Villa. I was going to bring that up. You can see the foregoal so far. I think it's off 11. He's had 11 shots against him. The Villa ones, they were so close. It was more defend them than his problems. The Wolves ones again. The Jimenez one, the second one, there's not really much he can do about that. He makes a huge save at 2-1 in the Wolves game. Brilliant save at the back post. Brilliant reactions. One thing I've noticed is I think his distribution has gone up a level this season so far. This is sure passing accuracy is up and his long passing accuracy is up even in tiny bits. I think it had ever changed the way he played and he's measured his kicks. At the end of the day, Jordan Pickford is never going to have pay for passing accuracy because he takes chances. That's what we want him to do. We want him to get us up the field quickly, create man advantages and that's what he does with his kicking. I thought last season, I think his stats for last season, I think it was about 57% passing accuracy and obviously the goalkeeper was on the top two. But they passed out from the back. We don't always do that. No, no, but theirs was over at like 84. But I think what his biggest problem was in distribution was he was in too much of a rush at times. And I think this season so far, I mean, I know we're only four league games on a league cup game in, which I'm glad he played in by the way. But I think he's been a lot more measured and his passing is finding people in space because I think he feels that if you can get the ball to these people, they can do something with it. I think with Pickford, I think he could seamlessly play in a man's city and play that short passing game like Edison does or even Liverpool with Alison. I think he's got that capability. We just don't call on him to do that often enough. And I think he has got the capability to do that. So I think focus on his pack of passing accuracy is probably not the greatest thing because he does try things. Unlike Demi, they're not trying to do sidewine to kicks out to the touch line, which may not work, but if they work, they're fantastic. So I think Marcus Silver allows Jordan Pickford to make the decision for himself. And if it comes off, it comes off. I don't mind him taking risks. You know, it's better than just kicking it down the middle and have it come back with a net, doesn't it? You know what I mean? I wouldn't say he takes risks. I'm not saying risks, but I'm more saying he's trying things that, you know, perhaps the norm aren't they? He's trying things that will go upfield. He's not trying things around this box. He's not doing proteins and things like that. I think his biggest criticism last season was his concentration levels more than anything else. And that came to a point when we played Newcastle, as we mentioned. And, you know, he said he's had a heart to heart with the manager. He spoke to the manager, he said that having, you know, the birth of his child has really helped them get his mind on it. And I think so far this season, I think we've seen that so far. We've just seen a goalkeeper and a player who is maturing in front of our eyes. He's in his third season, though, wherever. And can see the team is starting to hopefully go up a level and he wants to go up with it. And that's what you can ask for. When we signed him, he was a young player. He came off playing for Sunday and we were just getting battered with shots all the time as well. I think we've played for the things I've always, I think the things I always taught were things, not that stop on him, but sort of holding him back for he'd come on a top goalkeeper. Whereas positioning at times, sometimes he didn't position himself right for shots, seems to have worked that out now for me. He's much better positioned now. The other thing was decision-making concentration, where he pushed it out back out into play. Or he, you know, he tried and, like, delivered a pool game where he pushed it back into the play. Things like that. Now, hopefully they're gone. Obviously we'll see as the season goes on. If you've had the kicks then from this game, please do. He's the one on top five goalkeepers in the Premier League, you know, easily. And now it's against that way of class. He's just going to have to be consistent, that's all we ask for. Cut the errors out, consistent. See anything he's going to get there? And as you mentioned there, I mean, you know, the mistake against Liverpool, I'm sure mentally that would have really, really, you know, catered him. And he would want to try and do his best to, you know, make good on that almost so. I think he's quite a leader. I know we goalkeepers can be in our bunches to say, but I think he's quite a leader really. He sort of shows his emotions. You know, he's sort of, he's quite, you know, sort of an extravert rather than an introvert on the pitch especially. I think that helps. And I think that this season, you know, we've been playing well defensively and that's helped them as well. We are, you know, allowing a league loan number of shots against the goalkeeper at the moment. So, long that may that continue, it is form continues. He's going to be a top goalkeeper, it really is. Yeah, yeah. And Jack Butland, you know, I used to love Jack Butland, but he is nowhere in the same stratosphere as Jordan Picker at the moment. Well, like you said, Pope and Heaton have both had decent starts to season. Tien Henderson is good for Geoffrey Eisen and that's it. Pickford is England's best goalkeeper. Let's not be silly now. Come on. Let's not be silly. And the whole point for England as well is the manager, I think, he got the edge over them for the manager because his distribution was so good for England. Yeah, that's how they want to play. Yeah, that's how they want to play. Yeah, Pope and Heaton at the time both played for Burnley and you know, Pope still plays for Burnley and Heaton plays for Astonville. They don't play with the ball at the feet now. And if you want to play that sort of possession-based game, you start lost on Bill from the back. Pickford's a man. And he's an excellent shot-stopper, let's be honest. Yeah, he's a top goalkeeper. I think he's only going to get better. And I think, you know, with certain making sure he's on it for the games and he's concentrating and he's got it. Can you imagine how good he is with me? Can he just be when he's 30? That's prime. That's prime age. Hopefully he'll still be at everything. But if you want to watch the rest of that video, go and check it out on 888. Have a laugh, enjoy it. The absolute couple of them are absolute muppets. The other two are nice lads. Do you want to suggest Gordon Banks playing goal? Do you want to suggest Gordon Banks playing goal? So that's what some people are. Two of them are muppets and the other two are nice lads. If I know, so that I know the good lads. There you go. Let us know your thoughts on Jordan Pickford and his improvements. Have you seen an improvement? If you haven't, let me know in the comments. There you go. Thanks for watching ToffeesleepTV. 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