2024/25 Dominic Calvert-Lewin


If we can't find better than DCL I don't know what we're paying a recruitment team for

That’s what PR and using people on social media is for, it won’t matter

“We need a squad etc”

He will probably score before the end of the season anyway, which will only hammer home people pushing for him to stay
 

Don't get the hostility, me.

A lot of it I figured was around expecting/inevitability feeling of him getting off. "He's crap anyway"

If I was him, I wouldn't have signed the contract either. We must have been the worst team in the league for years for a striker. People here slating Dyche/negative football, and in the same breath slate a number 9 who doesn't fancy it. C'mon...

He'll definitely have offers, undoubtedly.

If we've now convinced him, tremendous. We're selling Beto. They want silly money for Broja - we'll have a very handy, rotational/backup striker in Calvert-Lewin. They won't bank on him to play 30+ games, that's for sure.

It would be a travesty to lose such a PSR friendly 'asset' for zilch.

We've been experts over the years at setting players up the fail - none more so than him. Get some pace in the squad, and ability to pass forward or cross a bloody ball and he's a big asset to the team.
 

Calvert-Lewin describes a season with just three goals in only 22 Premier League games as "mixed" - given the uplift from the appointment of manager David Moyes in January contrasted with his own hamstring injury at Brighton the same month.

The Everton number nine has been unavailable since, but is working his way back to fitness and is close to a full return to training and selection.

"I was fit for 18 months before this injury, and I was going pretty well in playing games and the consistency of playing," he says.

"Physically I feel the best I have ever felt. I have worked hard as I always do to get myself right and in the best condition possible."

Everton are moving to their new stadium in the Bramley-Moore Dock at the end of this season and that is an added motivation for Calvert-Lewin.

"That was always the incentive for me from the moment I knew I was going to be out for a little while." Calvert-Lewin says. "I want to get back for at least that last game at Goodison.

"I've had so many good memories there and it has been the biggest part of me growing up.

"It is important that I have that opportunity again to play at Goodison and experience that last day there."
 
….they’d be getting him for free, makes a big difference in salary negotiations and signing fee. He certainly won’t sign here on reduced terms.
Nobody wants a high earning player who has a history of long and regular injury layoffs and a very poor goal return / shot conversion rate. He can be as free as he wants, but his output just doesn't align to a high wage.
 

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