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2019/20 Dominic Calvert-Lewin

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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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This is a fair assessment.
 
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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I agree that the formation change has helped his game but I still think he has turned his career around. Had he struggled under Carlo he would have been gone by next season. Whether or not he could have shown his true quality at a lower level and bounce back is another question for a different day. The knock of the setback can affect players mentally, we see that all the time.

It is a confidence thing with DCL you can see it watching the goals back, Newcastle away he almost missed but somehow his messy contact went in. Now he looks like a finisher, that to me is turning his career around. Before Christmas no one is talking about DCL being in the euro squad, now there is - obviously helps with the injuries to others but still.

There was nothing to say he would become a 15+ goals a season guy because he needed so many chances per goal. Now he has shown he can hopefully he can go on to even bigger targets.
 
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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Excellent post.
 
Got attributes you can't teach. He's big, strong, fast and works hard and although he's not a natural finisher he doesn't need to be. Him and Rico complement each other and I go into games now thinking we're gonna cause the opposition problems up front. Never doubted the lad.
 
what young striker wouldn't benefit from playing alongside a player like Richarlison,
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by that logic Sandro or Oumar would be top-ten in goals now?

DCL is not Kane or Aguero (yet and may never be) but he’s doing fine and improving steadily. No crime that he’s doing it with Richy next to him, that also helps Richy by giving him someone strong upfront to bang bodies with CBs and keep Richy from being knocked in his ass all the time.
 

Great character to have at the club - hope we can build a team with more like him, Holgate and Richarlison - competitors.

He looked great against Utd, a real handful with some good hold-up play. He's been through a silly amount of turmoil at the club and kept his eye on the prize - a million miles away from Lookman, Vlasic et al.

Saw a few flashes of ability in Davies at the weekend second half too - I wonder if he can progress like DCL and Holgate.
 
CielosGrises said:
Great character to have at the club - hope we can build a team with more like him, Holgate and Richarlison - competitors.

He looked great against Utd, a real handful with some good hold-up play. He's been through a silly amount of turmoil at the club and kept his eye on the prize - a million miles away from Lookman, Vlasic et al.

Saw a few flashes of ability in Davies at the weekend second half too - I wonder if he can progress like DCL and Holgate.
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Those players you named all have a nice streak of snide in them too.
 


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