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2017/18 Dominic Calvert-Lewin

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ToffeeTim said:
He needs to spend hours and hours practicing his finishing. Hard work and he can make it.
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Daveysgingerlovechild said:
If he's to be a top striker he's going to have to go down the Shearer route: lots and lots and lots of work on the training ground. Which is absolutely fine.
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Everything I've heard about him suggests he has the right attitude. Maybe he needs somebody like Dunc to take him to one side and do extra training with him. He has a lot of good attributes but deffo needs to improve his finishing if he's to make the grade.

Probably upset a few here with this but somebody like Fowler would be ideal (as long as he didn't teach him about the white stuff too:))
 
Daveysgingerlovechild said:
If he's to be a top striker he's going to have to go down the Shearer route: lots and lots and lots of work on the training ground. Which is absolutely fine.
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...I think he’s more Graeme Sharp. I doubt he’ll ever be the goalscorer type that Shearer was. If you look at Sharp, it was the likes of Lineker, Heath, Gray and Cottee who benefited from a goalscoring perspective.
 
Barnfred 55 said:
Absolute load of crap. Don't think I've read anything so ridiculous on this site. A players age is irrelevant to how good he is?lol

I agree he's not ready to be our main striker. Far from it. But the simple truth is that we haven't got anyone better at the moment and that isn't the lads fault. Same as Kenny at right back. Until we can bring somebody better in to replace them in the firing line they need our support.

Like Kenny, DCL has improved with games and has actually been one of our better performers this season, and similarly he has not shirked responsibility like most of our senior players have. Hopefully we'll bring somebody in during the next window to lead the line and score the goals, and then DCL can go back to a support role to gain experience, a role he should have had from the start this season if the management had done their job correctly in the summer. Hopefully he'll learn to have more composure in front of goal otherwise he won't become a top player, but there's loads of top strikers who didn't have that in their armoury at 20.

I'm absolutely sick of some fans who seem intent on blaming our crop of young players for the predicament we're in at the moment.
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I think the countless comments comparing him to Kane are the most ridiculous things i’ve ever read on here but hey ho.

And of course his age is irrelevant. We don’t get extra points if we win a game with him playing. Niasse should have been starting the games he has started this season.
 

His finishing is as poor as Welbeck's. He will really need to work on his composure in the offseason as he has the attributes to be a very decent player.
 

miff said:
Better than Rooney??????
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The problem is that Rooney seems to inherently lack the discipline to play as a striker and instead chooses to amble around the entire pitch.

It's not an issue of one being better than the other; simply, there is no point in playing him Wayne up front instead of DCL if he doesn't stay there.
 

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