Jordan Pickford stance outlined as Sean Dyche agrees…

Jordan Pickford stance outlined as Sean Dyche agrees with Carlo Ancelotti on Everton stalwart

Here are your evening Everton headlines for Sunday, February 12.

Jordan Pickford Everton contract stance outlined

Jordan Pickford remains settled at Everton and talks over a new contract have not stalled over his salary demands.

Pickford's current deal expires in the summer of 2024 and reports this weekend claimed that there is a pay dispute between him and Goodison Park chiefs but club insiders insist this is categorically not true and the ECHO understands that talks have simply been deferred while Everton’s Premier League status is uncertain.

Pickford joined the Blues from his local club Sunderland for £25million in 2017 following the Black Cats’ relegation. After establishing himself as England’s number one and starring at the World Cup finals during his first campaign on Merseyside, in which he was also named Everton’s Player of the Season, Players’ Player of the Season and Young Player of the Season, he was rewarded with improved terms and a bumper new six-year deal in September 2018.

Now 28 and vice-captain to Seamus Coleman, Pickford is one of Everton’s most-senior players plus influential voices within the dressing room and is a well-liked and much-respected figure among his team-mates.

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Sean Dyche agrees with Carlo Ancelotti on Seamus Coleman impact as Everton landmark nears

Seamus Coleman is set to make his 400^th appearance for Everton when he leads his side out in Monday’s Merseyside Derby against Liverpool and while he is sure the player’s legacy is already secure, Sean Dyche, now his ninth manager at the club believes the demands his captain places upon his team-mates remain instrumental to setting the standards required when wearing the royal blue jersey.

Dyche admits that after a hectic first fortnight in his job, acclimatising Everton’s players to his methods, the subject of new deals for players whose contracts expire this summer has not yet been discussed. Coleman is one of those squad members in such a bracket but if he’s still around next season then there is even the scope to move past the likes of the aforementioned Osman and Dixie Dean into Everton’s top 10 for appearances in all competitions.

Described by Dyche’s predecessor Frank Lampard as “the best man I’ve ever met”, there was a heart-warming moment only this week that exemplified Coleman’s place within the fabric of Everton when, following goalkeeper coach Alan Kelly’s liaising with the FA of Ireland, he presented Nicola McMahon, a Blues employee of over 40 years’ service, with a commemorative cap in acknowledgement of her late father Tommy Clinton’s three international appearances for the Emerald Isle while with the club.

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