Ex-Everton Scout: Sam Tickle rumours response to ‘danger signals’ after what has happened
Goodison News is delighted to welcome aboard our brilliant new columnist Bryan King, the former goalkeeper who spent over eight years as a scout at Everton and 28 years in total in first-team scouting roles. Bryan also spent six years on Tottenham’s recruitment team and 11 years scouting at Aston Villa across two different spells…
The transfer rumours surrounding Everton and Wigan Athletic goalkeeper Sam Tickle are as a result of the “danger signals” football clubs are reading in the current climate, ex-club scout Bryan King has said.
Liverpool Echo journalist Joe Thomas reported on 25 December that Tickle is the sort of profile of player Everton are targeting – youngsters who could progress to the first team.
Tickle has emerged as Wigan’s number one goalkeeper, making 24 League One appearances and keeping seven clean sheets.
Whether or not Everton decide to make a move for Tickle remains to be seen but King thinks the approach is try and curve the amount of money being spent on moves for players in foreign leagues.
Speaking to Goodison News, he said: “I think the way football was conducted before all this started in the last five or six years before the rich owners came in it was a great way of feeding clubs at a lower level, that’s how it was always done.
“Have you seen how much money’s gone out the game on agents and foreign clubs? We’re never going to get that back, either Premier League or Championship clubs, or League One or Two.
“Now of course it’s foreign agents, foreign players, foreign clubs, a lot of money going out the game and I think the danger signals have started to reverberate around football.”
A move for Tickle would probably be viewed with an eye on the long term given Everton have England number one Jordan Pickford as their established first choice.
Tickle is still only 21 and has a lot of footballing education to go through as a goalkeeper, so even if Everton did try and complete a move it is likely they would search for a loan move for him.
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