Who’s been Everton’s standout players throughout 2024?

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As Everton’s 2024 is marking a big change at the club. They will receive the keys to their new stadium in the new year, ahead of the move next season.  So, whilst there haven’t been many incredible moments, who have been the standout players across the calendar year?

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00:00Looking across 2024 for Everton, now obviously it's not been the greatest of years, had a

00:10few decent results, had a few moments where fans would like to forget, but in terms of

00:15standout players throughout Sean Dyche's side, who stands out for there, that has maybe had

00:22a few better performances consistently throughout his side, who looks like that throughout the

00:292024 calendar year? Yeah, if you look at the whole year, someone like Gerard Bramfoet,

00:37he's had his injuries at the start of the season, so can you quite count him yet in

00:42the whole of 2024? Maybe, maybe not, even though he was excellent last season and continued

00:48to grow, but if you look throughout from January 1st to December 31st, Jordan Pickford's been

00:55an ever-present in the Everton goal, and he won the club's player of the year award for third

01:01successive season. Look, I don't think Everton fans need to be reminded just how important he is,

01:08how good he's been, but yeah, he's been immense, he deserves a lot of credit, Jordan Pickford,

01:13because there have been times in the last few years when, probably because he left the club

01:18in the difficult circumstances, you know, players have, Richarlison, Anthony Gordon,

01:23Jordan Pickford have looked at this and thought, I don't really fancy this, I fancy going to play

01:28in the Champions League in my career, and he probably, there probably would have been

01:32opportunities, you know, Chelsea's struggling for a goalkeeper etc, but he deserves, you know,

01:37immense credit for that, and Adrissa Garnaghey, for someone who's 35, he's shown all of his

01:46experience and has now scored the goal last season that ultimately kept Everton up,

01:53with a few fixtures to spare, but yeah, he's been, he's been maybe a little bit underrated,

02:01to be honest, it's not everyone's cup of tea, he's not fantastic on the ball, but he does the

02:06difficult things, just picks away, picks up loose balls etc, and Ashley Young deserves a lot of

02:12credit as well, you know, 38, 39, he's probably been one of Everton's best players this season,

02:18played a lot last season, I think that decision to sign him to a new contract was a very decent

02:25one, despite his age, maybe some were saying, haven't you the past ways, but yeah, there's

02:31one standout for me, and that's Jordan Pickford. And obviously you mentioned there, just on

02:35Pickford, I mean, loyalty in this game is so rare these days, you know, you mentioned

02:40Richarlison, Anthony Gordon, they go for money, they go for better opportunities, how incredible

02:46has he been just in Everton's recent history? Yeah, he is, I think, I think if you're looking

02:52down in the last 10 years maybe or so, he's probably the player you think of when you

02:57think of Everton, to be honest.

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