sageyefc
Player Valuation: £90m
No it's not. He's more Danny welbeck
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2017/18 Dominic Calvert-Lewin
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Billy Dean
Player Valuation: £70m
Also a valid point. We don't know yet how good or bad he'll be
sageyefc
Player Valuation: £90m
So far he's been no more than bang average and hasn't shown anything that screams he's going to go on to be anything other than an average to decent striker, so the comparisons to Harry Kane, Diego Costa, sharp, are all very silly. If anything he's looked more like a crap welbeck than any of them
Kev The Rat
Player Valuation: £70m
Very poor can’t wait to see niasse back
Billy Dean
Player Valuation: £70m
The point people are making is that at the same age Kane looked average too. As did Sharp according to people who saw him at that age. They're not comparing him to them at their peak. Patience wouldn't go amiss.
Yarrgh
Player Valuation: £70m
Sharp was a bit meh when he started. In fact, that coloured my opinion of him, rather unfairly in retrospect as he had a decent career and really did well for the team. DCL reminds me a bit of that now - never really clicked until I read that post.
Barnfred 55
Player Valuation: £80m
Where did you dig that post up from?. It was referring to Ross Barkley so I wouldnt have thought it was this thread.
Anyway. Agree with everything you say there. DCL isnt ready for the amounr if football being forced upon in him at this level. Especially in a dysfunctioning team with zero suppiort from senior players. But it usnt his fault that we have an incompetent board and doesnt deserve some of the disgraceful comments seen on here when he clearly isnt ready yet.
I agree with a lot of your posts mate.. Its mainly Ross we cross swords on.
DrEFC
Player Valuation: £40m
Kane looked mega-gash for U-20's though. Not necessarily saying DCL will end up half as good.
kithnou
Player Valuation: £70m
Fighting a lonely battle mate?
BigMick
Player Valuation: £20m
Couldn't agree more. A novice thrown in at the deep end - sink or swim: his head's still above water - don't give up on Dom yet!
TheCount
Player Valuation: £10m
Ye, the support he gets from midfield has been atrocious.
We need to stop playing two holding midfielders.
Just to try and put this into some perspective, at the age that DCL is now Kane was a bit part player for Spurs, but scored 3 goals in 10 PL appearances. DCL has scored 2 in 24 PL appearances for us. Kane had scored 14 goals in 53 games in his football league appearances, all at League 1 or above, while DCL has 5 in 31, all at League 2 level.
There really isn't anything to suggest that DCL is another Kane, so I'm not sure why people keep bringing it up. Kane was born in July, in the season which started 2 weeks after his 21st birthday he scored 31 goals in 51 games. DCL turns 21 in March, has anyone seen anything to suggest he's going to score 10 goals in the last couple of months of the season?
This isn't meant to knock DCL, quite the opposite. If people keep talking about him as if he may turn out like Kane then they'll inevitably be disappointed when he doesn't. I just don't think he's that kind of striker to be honest, he doesn't get into a huge amount of goalscoring positions, and when he does he doesn't finish very well. Kane was a natural goalscorer from an early age, he's a bit of a freak and comparing players to him is usually going to end in disappointment. A lot of people have used the Danny Welbeck comparison which I think is more like it, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with being a player of that level.
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