2024/25 Dominic Calvert-Lewin


If you take aside the ridiculous platform he decides to go on of 'High Performance Podcast' there are some interesting points to take from it.

Not one mention of being suicidal, if anything he made a mistake in the past with wording comments to throw in that narrative

'Crying on the floor on his birthday', you just know the second he said this Humphrey's eyes lit up ready for the sound bite and comments to advertise his podcast, Dom mentions it quickly then carry's on.....but is pushed back to this comment to try and 'analyze it' and 'open up'

Dom talks about Seamus being a great leader and inspirational, with the asking about 'cultural architect. "The biggest cultural architect at Everton is Seamus Coleman,"
I very much doubt Seamus himself would like to use those words at all. Dressing rooms are full of different personality's and from Dom's comments Seamus is all about example and how you carry yourself, not talking about how to be or how hard you work.....but just doing it.

This is were i think the Dom/fans thing has fallen short, Dom ahs had some brilliant moments with us, Palace, Liverpool etc. But talking about the Palace game, he not once mentions the fans, he talks about how hard he has worked and the struggles building up, and the courage he shown to get us through that moment etc etc. Not once does he mention the fans dragging the players through.......in a nutshell its about him. Seamus is the oppsoite, its never about him.

That's not a criticism of Dom, but more a criticism of people that critise him and have the right too. As Duncan Ferguson has said 'There are better players to have played fro Everton than me, but they just never got it'.

Seamus got it, Duncan got it....even people like Ashley Young got it. I don't think Dom ever did, its abit like being Batman, you cant do it for the adulation, because the minute you seek it, its not coming.
 

If you take aside the ridiculous platform he decides to go on of 'High Performance Podcast' there are some interesting points to take from it.

Not one mention of being suicidal, if anything he made a mistake in the past with wording comments to throw in that narrative

'Crying on the floor on his birthday', you just know the second he said this Humphrey's eyes lit up ready for the sound bite and comments to advertise his podcast, Dom mentions it quickly then carry's on.....but is pushed back to this comment to try and 'analyze it' and 'open up'

Dom talks about Seamus being a great leader and inspirational, with the asking about 'cultural architect. "The biggest cultural architect at Everton is Seamus Coleman,"
I very much doubt Seamus himself would like to use those words at all. Dressing rooms are full of different personality's and from Dom's comments Seamus is all about example and how you carry yourself, not talking about how to be or how hard you work.....but just doing it.

This is were i think the Dom/fans thing has fallen short, Dom ahs had some brilliant moments with us, Palace, Liverpool etc. But talking about the Palace game, he not once mentions the fans, he talks about how hard he has worked and the struggles building up, and the courage he shown to get us through that moment etc etc. Not once does he mention the fans dragging the players through.......in a nutshell its about him. Seamus is the oppsoite, its never about him.

That's not a criticism of Dom, but more a criticism of people that critise him and have the right too. As Duncan Ferguson has said 'There are better players to have played fro Everton than me, but they just never got it'.

Seamus got it, Duncan got it....even people like Ashley Young got it. I don't think Dom ever did, its abit like being Batman, you cant do it for the adulation, because the minute you seek it, its not coming.
He talked about the noise from the stands, the fans rushing on the pitch at the end, the relief for everyone connected with the club and never having felt euphoria like it before or since.
 
He talked about the noise from the stands, the fans rushing on the pitch at the end, the relief for everyone connected with the club and never having felt euphoria like it before or since.
That's not what i got from it, it sounded very 'look what i have done for you'.

I've always liked Dom, but came across quite self-entitled in this one. A bit like if your in work and the person that is constantly telling you they are busy, arent actually busy, while others are just working away.

I suppose that's the nature of the podcast though
 
By that rationale you only talk to your partner about things related to her work and background then?

You seriously think he isn't discussing his contract with the mother of his young child when the result of it could affect not only their future income but also which country they might end up living in? Give me a break

"I'd always confer with my partner with 100% honesty" - 'you only talk to your partner about things related to her work and background then?' no, I'd not be 100% honest about what's going on, this is true almost at all times wrt personal negotiations because of subjectivity over objectivity.

"keep her up to speed with every development when her background is putting clothes on for a living." - 'you only talk to your partner about things related to her work and background then?' That's a completely incorrect take on that sentence - however, she just wouldn't be getting regular updates.


Do you think that if Everton pulled his contract, the first person his agent calls is DCL? And do you think that if that's true, DCL calls is his Mrs before anything else subsequently? And then further to that, you think that it's wise during ongoing contract negotiations for his Mrs to publicly refute an assertion made by a journalist? If the answer to these is yes, then we intrinsically look at this from different viewpoints where we're just never finding common ground on this.
 

"I'd always confer with my partner with 100% honesty" - 'you only talk to your partner about things related to her work and background then?' no, I'd not be 100% honest about what's going on, this is true almost at all times wrt personal negotiations because of subjectivity over objectivity.

"keep her up to speed with every development when her background is putting clothes on for a living." - 'you only talk to your partner about things related to her work and background then?' That's a completely incorrect take on that sentence - however, she just wouldn't be getting regular updates.


Do you think that if Everton pulled his contract, the first person his agent calls is DCL? And do you think that if that's true, DCL calls is his Mrs before anything else subsequently? And then further to that, you think that it's wise during ongoing contract negotiations for his Mrs to publicly refute an assertion made by a journalist? If the answer to these is yes, then we intrinsically look at this from different viewpoints where we're just never finding common ground on this.
So you're a liar then. Duly noted.
 
"I'd always confer with my partner with 100% honesty" - 'you only talk to your partner about things related to her work and background then?' no, I'd not be 100% honest about what's going on, this is true almost at all times wrt personal negotiations because of subjectivity over objectivity.

"keep her up to speed with every development when her background is putting clothes on for a living." - 'you only talk to your partner about things related to her work and background then?' That's a completely incorrect take on that sentence - however, she just wouldn't be getting regular updates.


Do you think that if Everton pulled his contract, the first person his agent calls is DCL? And do you think that if that's true, DCL calls is his Mrs before anything else subsequently? And then further to that, you think that it's wise during ongoing contract negotiations for his Mrs to publicly refute an assertion made by a journalist? If the answer to these is yes, then we intrinsically look at this from different viewpoints where we're just never finding common ground on this.
About his contract situation and potential moves she is far more informed than Paul Joyce, simply because it affects her life as much as his particularly as his job would involve moving house and possibly country so yea we probably won't find common ground on this.

Fact remains that being a liar and being wrong are different things so Joyce can be both wrong and not a liar. There is no common ground on this, there is just what the words mean
 
She didn't call him a liar though, she just said that what he's reporting isn't true. Honestly, the people getting worked about her are showing a pretty troubling attitude.

I'm not even saying she's calling him a lier. It's just his job to report what he hears if he believes it to be reliable. Let's be honest, there is like a 90% chance Dom is leaving. I'm more just thinking if you don't want drama in your life, don't open any avenues for it.

DCL has categorically been a very good signing for Everton, it's just a shame that jarg stuff like this makes the story anything other than "thanks and good luck, Dom".
 

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