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Dominic Calvert-Lewin watch

GrandOldTeam said:
Leeds picked up a player who I told anyone who'd listen, as I've just shown you, that he'd score double figure league goals in a team that plays to his strength. Not even that, just any strikers strength. No coincidence only Wolves have scored less than Everton.

He'll keep them up.

That'll be worth 100x what they're paying him.

Don't get the hate on him me when he was here, but I do get the cope as people try to justify hounding him out and slating him.
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You don't understand people getting upset that our number 9 scored only 16 goals over 4 seasons?
 


Efcjake said:
The club made him multiple offers that HE turned down. For the record I also wanted us to keep him. He jibbed us off.

I'm sorry but just because he's scoring now let's not ignore his pathetic goal return over FOUR seasons before he turned around after months of telling us he didn't want to know and was off to brighter and better things to learning a bit of humility and coming back to the negotiating table.

I'm not surprised we told him to do one. I found how he acted better than us and then only when he got injured and his prospects were clearly drying up did he deign to lower himself to come back to negotiate with us.

I am not going to listen to "We let him walk away".... We made him contract offers in the last 18 months of his contract and he wasn't entertaining us.
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The breaking point between DCL and Everton was when he got injured at Villa and got booed by the fans. It was time for both parties to part at the end of the season. Unfortunately the club wasn’t in a position to let him go.

We couldn’t rely on him to stay fit, he wasn’t gonna give it his all after been booed for having a broken cheekbone.

We can blame DCL for running his contract down but also on the club for not selling him with 12 months left. I know he had the Newcastle deal but that was a PSR issue both clubs wanted to deal with but he didn’t have a list of clubs after him either.
 
Efcjake said:
You don't understand people getting upset that our number 9 scored only 16 goals over 4 seasons?
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You would hold him directly accountable for our lack of goals. Coincidentally both Barry and Beto have held top spot in the league for underperforming xG this season too

He's gone now - half way through the season and only Wolves, currently the Premier Leagues worst ever team, have scored less than Everton.

His replacement, Barry has scored 1 goal. Maybe replacing Calvert-lewin isn't so easy. Lukaku aside, name a better striker for Everton the past decade?

You can't. And hes just turned 28.

Maybe, just maybe the crux of Evertons problems - as many like you would claim - wasn't Calvert-lewin. He's gone now - we still aren't scoring goals, but he is.

The lesson here is things in football often aren't so black and white.

We set him up, like many others up, to fail.
 

widnesblue said:
The breaking point between DCL and Everton was when he got injured at Villa and got booed by the fans. It was time for both parties to part at the end of the season. Unfortunately the club wasn’t in a position to let him go.

We couldn’t rely on him to stay fit, he wasn’t gonna give it his all after been booed for having a broken cheekbone.

We can blame DCL for running his contract down but also on the club for not selling him with 12 months left. I know he had the Newcastle deal but that was a PSR issue both clubs wanted to deal with but he didn’t have a list of clubs after him either.
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The booing him was really stupid. I understood it came from frustration of witnessing him just appear to plop down on his arse and give up on the match. This was after a very frustrating injury period where just looking at a ball seemed to make his hamstring go. I understood the frustration, the choice to boo him for it was very stupid but it was a miserable time for blues and the club and everyone was collectively fed up with the continuous false dawns we got from him before another injury stole him away.

I genuinely felt he owed us a LOT more than what he gave us those four seasons and if he had any sense of loyalty towards the club for making him the player he is today then he should have extended his contract at similar terms instead of trying to extract as much as he could out of us after having delivered very little on his last contract. He saw things another way and prioritized getting his money in his account rather than staying here. Fair enough.

I am sick to death of this refrain about how we should have rolled out a red carpet and given in to any demand he put in front of us on the back of blind hope he would do better than 16 goals in 4 seasons the next time.
 
Efcjake said:
One set of criteria for Dom and another for everyone else.

It's a double standard.
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When the criteria are different it is not a double standard
Different manager for the most part
Different ages (Beto clearly worse player so comparison to Barry)

It's you who doesn't rate Dom, how do you explain his 7 goals in his last 6 then? And how he did better under Carlo too
 

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