2022/23 Dominic Calvert-Lewin

[ToffeeTim]

2-3 weeks out apparently.

3 or 4 massive games as well coming up. Not good.

 

[BlueToff]

3 or 4 massive games as well coming up. Not good.

Fingers crossed it's just extra caution, but I know. If he can play on Saturday he will do.

 

[nsno-chris]

Yet Kevin Thelwell entered 2 transfer windows and decided not to buy someone to compete with him

 

[BlueToff]

His willingness to play is what has done him in I reckon.

We brought him back into the team way too soon when his injuries started.

Benitez brought him back into training 3 weeks after he tore his quad ffs.

And then he sacked the medical team!

 

[nsno-chris]

Benitez brought him back into training 3 weeks after he tore his quad ffs.

And then he sacked the medical team!

The gift that keeps giving

 

[billyblue80]

Absolutely scandalous how we've been left in this position of desperately needing him to put a run of games together at full tilt when he hasn't been fit for 18 months

That was the gamble when they brought nobody in. We have done it two seasons in a row this time there is no Richy. Pure insanity will finally be our downfall in this league. Get the clowns in the board room and the owner out!

 

[PhilM]

I'm holding out hope mate. Trust who this came from though.

It's not that he's freshly injured as such, they're just dead worried it'll go again if they push him too soon.

Take it with a pinch of salt, but I've been told that he didn't start yesterday more as a precaution and they were genuinely hoping he'd be ready for Saturday.

Yet, as you said, it's not a fresh injury, but rather there's a concern that he hasn't fully recovered from a previous one.

 

[Joey66]

Forget him.

He's an irrelevancy.

We have Simms, Maupay and Gray to put up front.

Focus on them.

Problem is are they good enough ? Time will tell we miss DCL believe it or not when we play well he his a handful.....

 

[JohnRoss23]

The gift that keeps giving

You’ll hurt some feelings around here talking like that! Lol

 

[JohnRoss23]

Problem is are they good enough ? Time will tell we miss Dominic Calvert-Lewin believe it or not when we play well he his a handful.....

The problem is we don’t play well often, with or without him. Have to work with what we have…

 

[catcherintherye]

He’s an absolute mess this lad.

I said earlier in the season, there are serious issues around him. He went to war v Arsenal and was excellent, but gets injured. I dont think he can play at that level consistently anymore, and when he plays within himself, it shows.

It makes us not signing a proper target man all the more ludicrous.

 

[catcherintherye]

View attachment 204539nothing to get excited about...

2019-2021 he was excellent. To get 29 league goals in 2 seasons, without pens, in this team is some going.

He was just coming into his prime as a striker. But injuries have taken their toll.

But let's not kid ourselves, if we got that striker, who scores 13-16 a season for the final part of this season back, it would make an enormous difference.

 

[catcherintherye]

It's a different injury each time as well. Since November we've seen hamstring, knee and shoulder injuries. I don't believe it's simply bad luck.

What do you think it is?

 

[davek]

Problem is are they good enough ? Time will tell we miss Dominic Calvert-Lewin believe it or not when we play well he his a handful.....

Hardly plays though. He's practically worthless to us.

 

[KindofBlue]

When you have a one in three striker who only plays one in every five games you get one goal every 15 games. The math is bad. The results speak for themselves.

Like him or not we need more from the striker position.