2024/25 Dominic Calvert-Lewin

[Nyhus]

DCL just may want a different challenge somewhere else and it may not be down to money alone.

If he was happy to stay and we want him badly enough then certainly a deal could be put in place, possibly in the form of a big signing on fee and then wages in line with other top earners.

We are already probably paying him 100k per week, another 50k over four years would amount to an extra 10m which is a pittance compared to what we would have to pay to get a similar striker.
I think the fee mentioned for Broja is 28 and he hardly has a great pedigree.

My concern with DCL is that after the injuries that he lost a yard of pace. He is still good in the air, holds the ball up well but he just doesn't have the pace to get away from defenders.

He was never that kind of striker. If i google, im sure i can find instances of him getting the ball and smoking a defender to score, but those would be few and far between.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

Why is it we wouldn't sell him for an acceptable fee and not he hasn't been good enough for the past three years to convince anyone to pay our reasonable asking price?

If he gets in as many teams as you think he does someone at least tries us with an offer.

So where were the bids for Dom then?

He'd be at Newcastle now if Brighton didn't wade in for Minteh.

Or if they were able to sell Callum Wilson;

After months of monitoring the Everton goalscorer, Newcastle eventually made their move and an agreement that would have seen Calvert-Lewin make a switch to St. James Park was believed to have been discussed in detail between the two clubs. The initial understanding was that the Magpies' young winger, Yankuba Minteh, would join the Toffees in return. However, in what was a late twist, Telegraph Sport revealed that talks collapsed after Newcastle could not find a buyer for Wilson, and any deal to take Calvert-Lewin to the North East was swiftly dismissed

Ultimately, he's worth more to Everton, than he is to other teams who know he's free in a few months.

He'll end up at Newcastle, or a team like AC Milan for £0 - with the wage he wants.

 

[W84 Dum Freeze]

Calvert Lewin wouldn’t start for any other team in the PL.

Same number of goals as Son, Vardy, Mateta, Cunha, Solanke, João Pedro, Johnson and Gordon so far this season.

I guess you don't rate any of them at all and they wouldn't start for anyone either ?

 

[Efcjake]

He'd be at Newcastle now if Brighton didn't wade in for Minteh.

Or if they were able to sell Callum Wilson;



Ultimately, he's worth more to Everton, than he is to other teams who know he's free in a few months.

He'll end up at Newcastle, or a team like AC Milan for £0 - with the wage he wants.

There's other sources out there saying the move fell apart over his wage demands. Paddy Boyland in the Athletic specified it was down to him and not the club and I'm much more inclined to believe him.

Interesting couple of quotes from Paddy Boylands athletic article today

One deal that did not come off during those late June talks was a move that would have seen Calvert-Lewin join Newcastle, with highly-rated winger Yankuba Minteh heading the other way. The striker and his representatives, though, were unable to agree terms and both mooted transfers collapsed. Without Calvert-Lewin’s sale, the finances simply were not there to challenge Brighton’s £30million offer for Minteh, even with the Gambian said to have been keen on a switch to Goodison.

Calvert-Lewin’s contractual situation remains a live problem. He has shown no willingness when it comes to signing a new deal and late-summer interest never materialised in the way he or Everton anticipated. The club are likely to make renewed attempts to convince Calvert-Lewin to agree a new deal but the chances of the 27-year-old signing a January pre-contract elsewhere and making a free-agent exit at the end of the season have risen significantly.

Why didn't we get any bids at all over the summer?

Clearly he and his representatives are knocking back every deal hoping to win a kings ransom on a free.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

There's other sources out there saying the move fell apart over his wage demands. Paddy Boyland in the Athletic specified it was down to him and not the club and I'm much more inclined to believe him.








Why didn't we get any bids at all over the summer?

Clearly he and his representatives are knocking back every deal hoping to win a kings ransom on a free.

? We did. You've just demonstrated one.

If you choose to believe the report you linked, it fell through on his demands. The interest/bid was there then wasn't it?

Ultimately, he won't have difficulty getting his next club, or getting whatever demands he wants in a few months.

Everton wouldn't sell him on the cheap, which is what buying teams would expect for a player with fitness concerns and a contract about to expire. And he will want his last big contract to be a decent one.

I agree with Everton - he's worth more to us, this season - than what we'd have got as a transfer fee. Only worth selling him if it was something like 30/40m - which no team is paying.

 

[Bluelenny1984]

If Gordon and Onana were genuinely crap for us mate - Chelsea and Newcastle wouldn't have been lashing in bids for Gordon, and Villa wouldn't have paid a record club fee for Onana.

They weren't. They were just in a struggling team and took the frustration that come with it.

I think we are actually agreeing here, there not crap players but the club doesn’t allow these players to develop because it’s stunted in failure!

 

[mahermi1]

Only problem with this comment is both Gordon and Onana where crap for us, not because there bad footballers but because we are rotten as a club and fail to develop players or a style of play that allows players to flourish. You only have to look at Gordon in particular to know he looks the part, but why didn’t he produce it at Goodison?? Why did Rooney have to leave, anyone with any talent can’t stick around here if they wish to progress!!

I feel Gordon was playing with better players in a more attacking team, Newcastle's style of play from what I've seen is more pass and move, where ours is mostly hoof !
Rooney was never staying at Everton at the time, he had the World at his feet and Kenwrights Everton were needing his transfer fee for debts that were far too high for a club like ours at the time with no money.

 

[Gilbert..]

I feel Gordon was playing with better players in a more attacking team, Newcastle's style of play from what I've seen is more pass and move, where ours is mostly hoof !
Rooney was never staying at Everton at the time, he had the World at his feet and Kenwrights Everton were needing his transfer fee for debts that were far too high for a club like ours at the time with no money.

Gordon has just matured as a player. Better quality of player yes but i just think he's got older and more experienced. He was very raw at Everton. Had a bit of an attitude aswell. Howe has knocked that out of him.

 

[matty1878]

Gordon has just matured as a player. Better quality of player yes but i just think he's got older and more experienced. He was very raw at Everton. Had a bit of an attitude aswell. Howe has knocked that out of him.

he’s a bad nob

needs boooing and booting all over the pitch

 

[Gilbert..]

he’s a bad nob

needs boooing and booting all over the pitch

Well yes. I suppose there's always that approach.

 

[KaiserEFC]

I mean I’d let my contract run down, we all would. Get a massive salary and bonus from the next club, agent makes a bucket load and you get to leave an absolute basket case of a club

 

[Ferguson1878]

He'd be at Newcastle now if Brighton didn't wade in for Minteh.

Or if they were able to sell Callum Wilson;



Ultimately, he's worth more to Everton, than he is to other teams who know he's free in a few months.

He'll end up at Newcastle, or a team like AC Milan for £0 - with the wage he wants.

On the bench most of the time aswell

 

[Ferguson1878]

Same number of goals as Son, Vardy, Mateta, Cunha, Solanke, João Pedro, Johnson and Gordon so far this season.

I guess you don't rate any of them at all and they wouldn't start for anyone either ?

Same number of goals as Son, Vardy, Mateta, Cunha, Solanke, João Pedro, Johnson and Gordon so far this season.

I guess you don't rate any of them at all and they wouldn't start for anyone either ?

Think usually you go off end of season tally’s to judge a striker not 5/6 games in

 

[Furey1878]

He'll end up at Newcastle, or a team like AC Milan for £0 - with the wage he wants.

I could see a few better clubs coming in for him on a free you know. Someone like Arsenal if they're still missing a proper centre forward.

Basically, his injury record just made him not worth the risk.

 

[Bryan+]

Gordon has just matured as a player. Better quality of player yes but i just think he's got older and more experienced. He was very raw at Everton. Had a bit of an attitude aswell. Howe has knocked that out of him.

Legged out of goodison for £40m by the montirex lids all cos he bleached his hair