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2019/20 Dominic Calvert-Lewin

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Kurt said:
You can’t teach instinct.
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Agree wholeheartedly.

He needs to sniff out opportunities, be ruthless and seize on mistakes.

Unfortunately I just see a very good, manufactured academy player who technically is superb and will no doubt have a good career.

Not that it's a bad thing but doubt he will ever be our Shearer or even a Lukaku on a consistent basis.

He will make a great strike partner and foil for a top centre forward.
 
jinkyali said:
Agree wholeheartedly.

He needs to sniff out opportunities, be ruthless and seize on mistakes.

Unfortunately I just see a very good, manufactured academy player who technically is superb and will no doubt have a good career.

Not that it's a bad thing but doubt he will ever be our Shearer or even a Lukaku on a consistent basis.

He will make a great strike partner and foil for a top centre forward.
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No one is gonna be a Shearer mate. Why does someone have to be at that level to be good?
 
Kurt said:
A natural finisher comes away with the match ball yesterday ....
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I'm not sure people are suggesting he's going to be Kane or Aubameyang level, but he's nonetheless doing better than most people thought he would for us, which is good. I mean he overtook the best league tally Ferguson achieved in his entire career yesterday and has only been bettered by Yakubu, Saha, Lukaku and Richarlison/Sig in the past 25 years.
 

Nymzee said:
No one is gonna be a Shearer mate. Why does someone have to be at that level to be good?
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Indeed. He's got 14 in 30 games thus far. If he replicated that every season until he retires he'll have had a superb career (of course, replicating it won't be easy and he has to prove he's not just on a Jelavic style hot streak, but right now, he's doing well).
 
Bruce Wayne said:
I'm not sure people are suggesting he's going to be Kane or Aubameyang level, but he's nonetheless doing better than most people thought he would for us, which is good. I mean he overtook the best league tally Ferguson achieved in his entire career yesterday and has only been bettered by Yakubu, Saha, Lukaku and Richarlison/Sig in the past 25 years.
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If a 37 year old Jermaine Defoe had been on the end of them chances yesterday we’d have won that game..... that’s not for one minute saying defoe is a better footballer but it’s the difference between having a striker and an instinctive goal scorer
 

Kurt said:
If a 37 year old Jermaine Defoe had been on the end of them chances yesterday we’d have won that game..... that’s not for one minute saying defoe is a better footballer but it’s the difference between having a striker and an instinctive goal scorer
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Quite possibly, but he's not Defoe, or Shearer or Kane or any of those. He's just a player who seems to have improved considerably under Ancelotti, which is good. The absurdity of the transfer market means that buying in a player who can get 14 goals a season would probably cost upwards of £30 million, so the lad is doing alright. If we want to win the league, we will probably need better, but for where we are right now, would we want DCL slotting practically a goal a game or Kean firing blanks?
 
Keiran said:
I think it’s OK to say that DCL has made huge improvements this season, that I don’t want to sell him and I’m delighted with his current goal tally....

BUT

Questions still persist over his ability to be a top-level finisher. He lacks composure and it’s not based just on today. He’s missed quite a few sitters recently that may otherwise have cost us and thankfully (aside from today) they haven’t.

For me, he’s shown enough to demonstrate he can be a useful and effective part of the squad, but he’s not a starter if we ever aspire to be regulars in the Europa League.
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I agree with this, he needs to improve in front of goal. He's improved other facets of his game a lot this season so lets see if he can improve that too
 
London boys said:
12 prem goals in 20


Your job as a CF is to score goals, the job of a defender and goal keeper is to stop goals.. our 2 CFs scored goals but our defenders and goalkeeper didn’t stop 3.. it’s pretty basic really! I’m concussed
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Yep the defending 'was' terrible 'before' DCL missed those sitters. I agree he scored and improved his tally but only DCL benefits unfortunately.
 

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