No evidence based on current form. The injuries have fundamentally changed him as a player and he is no longer effective at this level. He is not going to be a natural goalscorer at championship level either going forward.
He used to be really good, but now he's really pretty poor for this level. At some point we have got to stop using the fitness and service arguments and accept that he is just a player who has declined significantly.
Look, Everton's squad is awful. But if it went down I guarantee you over a season we would walk it,if the squad stayed as is. That's the gap here.
Now of course if we go down, the squad won't stay as it is.
But I find it funny the same old people who criticised Dom in 20-21 for 'not scoring the right kind of goals' when he was on 20 goals for the season by about March are the ones who insist he's crap.
Dan Ashworth and Eddie Howe, everyone's flavour of the month, rate him and might well come in for him this month. If he'd not been injured all of last season we all know we'd have been nowhere near where we finished.
He's not brilliant, but it's hard when you're so starved of quality service. The injuries make getting any form of sharpness or cohesion harder and the quality in reserve is absolutely not there to push him or replace him effectively.
He needs to get sharper, and that will come by playing games, so that when/if the service does arrive (there was one yesterday where Iwobi got a ball in and it was just ahead of him) he puts away those chances.
