Everton have £8m bid for Sunderland goalkeeper Jordan Pickford rejected and will not meet £30m asking price
Toffees still want highly-rated 23-year-old but have baulked at relegated Black Cats' price tag and will only go as high as £15m
EVERTON have had an £8m bid for Sunderland goalkeeper Jordan Pickford rejected - and they will not meet the £30m asking price.
The Toffees still want the highly-rated 23-year-old, but have baulked at the relegated Black Cats' price tag, report the .
It is claimed the club will only go as high as £15m for the England U21 starlet - but despite Sunderland going down to the Championship, they want big money.
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He made a huge 135 saves this season in the woeful Sunderland season, the second highest in the top flight behind Burnley’s England international Tom Heaton.
The Echo also report that while boss Ronald Koeman has not openly said he wants a new stopper, Pickford has been top of their wanted list for a while.
But Pickford is not crucial enough to part with a whopping £30m, with other keepers on the market, and the likes of West Ham and Newcastle also circling.
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Of Everton's two existing keepers, Maarten Stekelenburg is injury-prone while Joel Robles often makes costly mistakes.
Robles said at the end of the season that his future is "not very clear".