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Monday's Daily Mail features quotes from Jordan Pickford following the Everton goalkeeper's match-defining intervention against Watford at the weekend.

Pickford denied Hornets striker Troy Deeney at point-blank range to preserve his side's one-goal advantage. The England number one, who has kept 10 clean sheets in his past 13 matches for Everton, told the Mail: "I have got to be a leader on the pitch and off the pitch."

The Daily Telegraph also focusses on Pickford but through the eyes of manager Marco Silva, who said: “At the moment, Jordan is showing more maturity, he has the quality and he’s showing that more in the right moments."

The same paper analyses the impact a cacophonous Goodison Park is having on the Blues, who are unbeaten in six at home and have not conceded in that period.

"There is nothing in English football quite like an ebullient Goodison," suggests the paper.

Everton's transfer deadline day signing from Arsenal Alex Iwobi has been tipped to flourish at Goodison by Nigeria national team assistant boss Imama Amapakabo.

Iwobi has been capped 36 times by the African country and Amapakabo told Football Live Nigeria: "He is a young lad and has his football ahead of him so, let us give him all the backing we need to give him, hopefully at the end of the season we will be able to take stock of how well he has fared with Everton.”

BBC Sport says Bristol City will beat Reading and Wigan Athletic to the signature of free agent former Everton defender Ashley Williams.

Sport Witness claims Besiktas are pursuing a deal to take Everton forward Cenk Tosun back to Istanbul before the European transfer window shuts on September 2.

The Liverpool Echo picks up on quotes from Moise Kean after the Italian striker was interviewed in Everton's matchday programme on Saturday.

Kean, who joined Everton from Juventus earlier this month, talks about the childhood which shaped his determined personality and identifies the biggest influences on his embryonic career.

The Echo also reports on Anthony Gordon being named "best attacker" at the prestigious Otten Cup tournament in Holland.

Everton had been set for a third-place play-off clash with Barcelona after losing out to hosts PSV Eindhoven in the last four, only for the Catalan side's boss, former Barca keeper Victor Valdes, to pull his side out of a game scheduled to kick-off hours after Barcelona's semi-final defeat to Inter Milan.