granter79
Player Valuation: £35m
Paul McGrath springs to mind. Barely trained but fort away as he performed every Saturday
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There’s no comparison but that doesn’t mean that chronic recurring muscle issues aren’t as serious as a bad ACL.
It’s pretty clear Dom’s career is in the balance and as frustrating as it is to have him out the team the pattern of getting him half fit / sticking him in / him breaking down again had to be broken.
We also now have a manager who seems to be taking the long view rather than risking him for short term results for their own job prospects- and long term thinking has been in short supply at Everton. We’re doing the right thing trying to nurse him to sustainable fitness, whether it works or not. Better to have him for the next five years than the next five games.
twoblue
Player Valuation: £35m
I think the comparison is Michael Owen. DCL doesnt trust his body anymore
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
I know what I'd do if I were Dyche: name him on the bench with Simms and - depending on the circumstances - look to one of them with 15-20 minutes to go.
He should be able to deal with the stress of that and be available next game up.
I dont even want him starting, tbh. We have our attacking approach now under Dyche. We've got past that need to have DCL as a target man.
lol
Calvert-Lewin has had several terrible injuries in a row.
I can't get over to you how bad that quad injury was. He should probably have had surgery but that would have meant him missing the season.
He's crocked.
I don't think anyone is suggesting it's fine.
He's been crocked for the best part of two years.
That quad injury he got v Brighton in August 2021, and then aggravated when the pig man insisted he came back to training a few weeks later, was as bad as the one Gbamin suffered in 2019.
Ever since then it's been a constant case of catch-up. They finally thought they had him fit last summer and his knee popped in a shooting drill.
He's not been helped by the fact that the club, led by two DoFs (one of whom had much more time than the other) and several managers as well as idiot owner and inept board, have failed to replace him in any adequate manner so he's been relied on to come back each time and never be fully fit.
Irony is had Benitez not absolutely insisted on Rondon as his striker in 2021 then we'd have got Openda or Beto, who Brands and his team wanted, and we could have actually had a player who could fill in adequately.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Take a look at how many shots we're getting off and the results we're getting without Calvert-Lewin.
If we reverted to looking to service him every game for the rest of the season I guarantee you we'd be relegated.
That's kind of what I mean really. I'm taking about people who are saying 'he's just injured, it happens' which obviously isn't the case if he's properly crocked. People are speculating because there's lots to speculate on - comparing it to an every day injury return is pointless because it's a totally different situation. Again, i'm not putting any blame on him or the club with that, just pointing out that the whole thing is clearly worthy of discussion.
Black Belt Jones
Player Valuation: £25m
How did he do his toe do you recall - was it in a game? That seems to have been the start of it.
Broken toe was the original source of Dunc's injury saga, according to the man himself. Incurred during a punch-up in a Dundee alehouse, rather than a football match, but the principle is the same - serious injury for a footballer.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Didn't he once get a diagnosis that the source of his groin injury was a tooth issue?
How many goals have we scored from those shots D Man?
coleman=quality
Player Valuation: £15m
Plus townsend is coming to the end of his career DCL hasn’t even got started
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Enough to get 11 points.
If we played with him in mind and relied on his goals where would we be?
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