2024/25 Dominic Calvert-Lewin

[Goat]

Will be boo'd if he stays and intends to leave on a free. Why bother, just leave.

Hes been saying this since May.

In May he told Everton he wanted to leave.

 

[Furey1878]

Everton have so far rejected bids from United, Newcastle and Chelsea, that we know of.

I wish people would stop saying "nobody wants him", its boring.

I guess the more correct phrase would be that no one wants him enough

 

[Goat]

I guess the more correct phrase would be that no one wants him enough

A strong stance gets us 22m for Iwobi, so we just gotta trust in the process I suppose.

Hopefully theres a deal to be done in the next few hours.

 

[paultheblue]

Chelsea headhunters are everywhere.

No match for the Everton Headlockers mate

 

[GrandOldTeam]

Everton were 12th last season for chances created. Ahead of west ham. Fulham. Forest palace wolves and the eventual bottom 3. All but sheff united scored less.
When your forward doesnt score for 6 months even though you're creating more chances thats what tends to happen. Other teams score more.

Chris wood. 14 goals from open play.
Calvert lewin 5 goals from open play.

Forest below Everton on chances created over the season.

Any chance we could look at our own striker?

The Premier League changed their "chances created" to "big chances created" but routinely, we've been bottom 3 for chances created.

To Dyches credit, he's improved it. A lot has been from set pieces, mind.

Search my posts on here, I said Chris Wood was a good signing for them and wanted us to get him for the same reason. He does that role well.

Anyone who watches Everton will see the problem we've had for years is a lack of pace, or ability across the entire front 3.

It's too easy to just point at the striker, whoever it is when this is a massive part of the problem;

 

[Victus]

When they start giving you points on the table for how many runs your striker makes a game we'll be laughing wont we!.

 

[Osamabindiesel]

That challenges the myth of us not creating anything though mate and this brings up the fact we have an atrocious set of finishers.

Heard all the excuses about we do rarely get a chance that the player snaps at it etc. all rubbish, we create an average number of 'good' chances for a mid table side.

We just miss those chances way more than a mid table side should do.

But when you have a completely left footed winger cutting infield, a natural left winger stuck wide right, a CF who can't hit a barn door and Doucoure being the one hitting the box late with his rhino hooves for feet what do we expect

Dom is part of the problem. I understand completely why he wants to leave and can sympathize with him. If Dyche had a remotely decent technical finisher up top, we would be better off and look significantly better.

Most of our fan base will say “but Dycheball!” when the truth is we look to play the diagonal first and our defenders can hit that on the dime pretty frequently. The problem is we have slow wingers without competent fullbacks so we can’t really utilize the wings, so we need to improve the center. That starts with Dom and Doucore. A mentally checked out Dom will kill us.

 

[Mickey]

Haaland wouldnt hit double figures the way we play.

 

[Tony’s Carp]

Think we need to accept he's here til Jan at the earliest, and that isn't the end of the world. Players run down contracts all the time, and most of them need to play well to earn the next one if there's not one lined up.

Very hard to come up with any combination of transfers involving DCL doable at this hour that actually would improve the team and for all the financial arguments, not weakening the team is the biggest priority when you've battled relegation for 3 years.

 

[bluestevon]

The Premier League changed their "chances created" to "big chances created" but routinely, we've been bottom 3 for chances created.

To Dyches credit, he's improved it. A lot has been from set pieces, mind.

Search my posts on here, I said Chris Wood was a good signing for them and wanted us to get him for the same reason. He does that role well.

Anyone who watches Everton will see the problem we've had for years is a lack of pace, or ability across the entire front 3.

It's too easy to just point at the striker, whoever it is when this is a massive part of the problem;

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Problem is, how far away is the guy with the ball when's he's doing them runs, if he's doing them expecting us to have James Rodriguez pinging in 40 yarders into his path then he may as well save his energy.

The options thing again highlights what I was saying, if he has no options then why does it matter if he's better winning it in the air or holding it up than Beto, it's a dead rubber stat given our system.

 

[Tony’s Carp]

Haaland wouldnt hit double figures the way we play.

DCL himself would've hit 13 last season if he'd performed at his xG. Not all on the service.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

Dom is part of the problem. I understand completely why he wants to leave and can sympathize with him. If Dyche had a remotely decent technical finisher up top, we would be better off and look significantly better.

Most of our fan base will say “but Dycheball!” when the truth is we look to play the diagonal first- and our defenders can hit that on the dime pretty frequently. The problem is we have slow wingers without competent fullbacks so we can’t really utilize the wings, so we need to improve the center. That starts with Dom and Doucore. A mentally checked out Dom will kill us.

His football kills strikers, and centre midfielders. And wingers.

And makes defenders look better than they are.

But it's where we are. If we had pace or ability I'd be the first on Dyche's case.

 

[MikeH72]

Haaland wouldnt hit double figures the way we play.

He just would though. DCL hit 7 and he can’t hit a barn door.

 

[bluestevon]

Dom is part of the problem. I understand completely why he wants to leave and can sympathize with him. If Dyche had a remotely decent technical finisher up top, we would be better off and look significantly better.

Most of our fan base will say “but Dycheball!” when the truth is we look to play the diagonal first and our defenders can hit that on the dime pretty frequently. The problem is we have slow wingers without competent fullbacks so we can’t really utilize the wings, so we need to improve the center. That starts with Dom and Doucore. A mentally checked out Dom will kill us.

Doucoure has to go

 

[Goat]

The Premier League changed their "chances created" to "big chances created" but routinely, we've been bottom 3 for chances created.

To Dyches credit, he's improved it. A lot has been from set pieces, mind.

Search my posts on here, I said Chris Wood was a good signing for them and wanted us to get him for the same reason. He does that role well.

Anyone who watches Everton will see the problem we've had for years is a lack of pace, or ability across the entire front 3.

It's too easy to just point at the striker, whoever it is when this is a massive part of the problem;

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They, will not like that.

Not a single bit.