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2019/20 Dominic Calvert-Lewin

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DCL has always been a grafter and a willing runner, but it was only when watching him giving van Dijk fits against Liverpool in December that I realised just how good an actual striker he’d become. It’s as if everything he’d picked up in fits and starts during his long apprenticeship under a succession of substandard managers had finally clicked into place.

As things stand, he guarantees 15 league goals a season, but with his tremendous work rate he offers so much more than your typical no. 9. I suspect he’ll continue to improve and kick on to become a 20+ goal a season striker for the rest of his prime.

You can already see from the stats that since Carlo took over he’s putting himself in a position to score and making more goal attempts per 90 than he ever did before. How good he can get is anybody’s guess.
 
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Made up he has turned his career around. If he makes the same amount of progress next season as he has this he will be some player. ;)
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But he hasn't turned his career around at all.

The simple fact is he wasn't a bad player 3 months ago and he isn't a brilliant player now. The same people who were saying he wasn't even championship standard back in November are now making out that he's practically world class, and they are way off the mark on both counts.

He's a young player who has been steadily improving over the last 3 years. His current run of goal scoring form owes a lot to the vision of Duncan Ferguson who saw he'd be better playing in front 2, and in fairness what young striker wouldn't benefit from playing alongside a player like Richarlison, somebody who is actually a lot closer to being termed world class than Dom is at the moment. Carlo came in and just carried on where Dunc left off.

Playing in a 2 allows Dom to be much more selfish, stay in the box a lot more and find himself in the right place at the right time to score 10 in his last 12 league games. Quite a fantastic achievement by any standards, but in truth it could and should have been a lot more. And with the goals has come the confidence a good run brings to every attacking player. Dom is no different.

But he is nowhere near the finished article yet, and neither should we expect him to be at 22. Whilst he is decent in the air he still needs to improve his heading and bring it up to the same level as Richie. He needs to strike a ball much better than he does at the moment, and be more clinical in one on one situations. If he can improve on all 3 counts over the next couple of years, and there's no reason to believe he can't, then maybe we can say we have a real talent on our books.

In the meantime he fully deserves the new contract he's been given. Let's hope his good run of goals continues and that Duncan and Carlo can continue to improve him so he becomes a true world class striker.
 

Well done to the lad for taking such as massive step up from his previous seasons... deserves a new contract for it and hope he keeps it going.

I never saw in him what I saw in Holgate but his form at least has given us some breathing space this year. I hope Kean makes the same jump next season..
 

Barnfred 55 said:
But he hasn't turned his career around at all.

The simple fact is he wasn't a bad player 3 months ago and he isn't a brilliant player now. The same people who were saying he wasn't even championship standard back in November are now making out that he's practically world class, and they are way off the mark on both counts.

He's a young player who has been steadily improving over the last 3 years. His current run of goal scoring form owes a lot to the vision of Duncan Ferguson who saw he'd be better playing in front 2, and in fairness what young striker wouldn't benefit from playing alongside a player like Richarlison, somebody who is actually a lot closer to being termed world class than Dom is at the moment. Carlo came in and just carried on where Dunc left off.

Playing in a 2 allows Dom to be much more selfish, stay in the box a lot more and find himself in the right place at the right time to score 10 in his last 12 league games. Quite a fantastic achievement by any standards, but in truth it could and should have been a lot more. And with the goals has come the confidence a good run brings to every attacking player. Dom is no different.

But he is nowhere near the finished article yet, and neither should we expect him to be at 22. Whilst he is decent in the air he still needs to improve his heading and bring it up to the same level as Richie. He needs to strike a ball much better than he does at the moment, and be more clinical in one on one situations. If he can improve on all 3 counts over the next couple of years, and there's no reason to believe he can't, then maybe we can say we have a real talent on our books.

In the meantime he fully deserves the new contract he's been given. Let's hope his good run of goals continues and that Duncan and Carlo can continue to improve him so he becomes a true world class striker.
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Couldnt have written it better myself. The exciting thing is that he should continue to improve and then the fireworks will start.
Cant believe some tWit on here thinks its a good idea to sell for $50m.
 

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