Dominic Calvert-Lewin

[Gash]

A few rumours going around that it'll be confirmed he'll leave at the end of his contract.

[brap2]

For the best

[Escalator]

Sooner we have clarification the better, then we can focus spending his £150k a week on someone else.

[StirlingBlue]

As much as I’ve been a supporter of Dom, I’d keep Beto over him all day long now. Too injury prone and his finishing has declined so much. I’d keep him as back up on seriously reduced/performance related wages, but Beto starts every time if they’re our two main strikers.

Beto is better but honestly neither are great are they?

Given we can probably get money for Beto vs DCL leaving on a free I’m not sure Beto is twenty million better than him.

If you could add that to our fee for a future striker I’d probably rather better new striker/DCL/Chermiti vs worse new striker/Beto/Chermiti

[777Kidnappings]

Beto is better but honestly neither are great are they?

Given we can probably get money for Beto vs DCL leaving on a free I’m not sure Beto is twenty million better than him.

If you could add that to our fee for a future striker I’d probably rather better new striker/DCL/Chermiti vs worse new striker/Beto/Chermiti

Not really sure why we'd renew dcl on any evidence of the last 2 or 3 years. On that showing he's not even a premier league player even when he's fit. I'd much rather have beto than dcl and 20m. There's more than a fair chance we retain dcl and he's still an awful finisher and he's still always injured. Why would we get rid of our 1 decent striker for that. Literally no one on here would want to sign him on a free if he had the same career at a different club

[Evertonian in NC]

Plus, DCL is on (I believe) significantly higher wages. I am most impressed by how the new ownership views wages as having a real impact, instead of just transfer fees/can we sell a player (the ones we can't...are usually because of the high wages).

Can get caught in a vicious death spiral that way.

[Stumpy]

Not really sure why we'd renew dcl on any evidence of the last 2 or 3 years. On that showing he's not even a premier league player even when he's fit. I'd much rather have beto than dcl and 20m. There's more than a fair chance we retain dcl and he's still an awful finisher and he's still always injured. Why would we get rid of our 1 decent striker for that. Literally no one on here would want to sign him on a free if he had the same career at a different club

That's the way i feel about it all.
I can't really see one good reason to renew him. As i said in an earlier post he is just so unreliable with injuries and is such a poor finisher.
To me it's a no brainer, keep a vastly improved Beto and get rid of a diminishing Calvert-Lewin and buy another striker.
As you said if this was playing out at another club, most on here would say we would be crazy to even look twice at him

[777Kidnappings]

That's the way i feel about it all.
I can't really see one good reason to renew him. As i said in an earlier post he is just so unreliable with injuries and is such a poor finisher.
To me it's a no brainer, keep a vastly improved Beto and get rid of a diminishing Calvert-Lewin and buy another striker.
As you said if this was playing out at another club, most on here would say we would be crazy to even look twice at him

I think the only fanbase that wouldn't be horrified to sign him is ours but it's purely based on sentiment around him being a good player 5 or 6 years ago. He's kind of at the Ross Barkley to Luton stage but Ross barkley was on peanuts in comparison and he didn't have fitness problems

I don't think he carries a genuine value at all now. I think we all have a fear of missing out on getting the good version back but playing the percentages I don't know if he's even worth 30 or 40k a week

[Stumpy]

I think the only fanbase that wouldn't be horrified to sign him is ours but it's purely based on sentiment around him being a good player 5 or 6 years ago. He's kind of at the Ross Barkley to Luton stage but Ross barkley was on peanuts in comparison and he didn't have fitness problems

I don't think he carries a genuine value at all now. I think we all have a fear of missing out on getting the good version back but playing the percentages I don't know if he's even worth 30 or 40k a week

He absolutely is not worth it.
I just don't see the point of keeping him.
I posted months ago on a different thread that it was reality time for him.
This really is his last tidy deal and he needed to think hard about what he wanted.
None of us know what the club offered him but he turned it down.
How much Newcastle wanted him? again who knows.
However he didn't go there and he ran his contract down.
It's now down to him and his team to sort something out.
I really can't see any of the top sides touching him, maybe one of the promoted sides will take a chance on him and perhaps a new fresh start elsewhere will work out for him and he will start scoring a few goals.
I wish him well wherever he goes.
But i don't want the club wasting anymore money on a player that's barely made any worthwhile contribution for the best part of 3 seasons

[Robioto]

Sooner we have clarification the better, then we can focus spending his £150k a week on someone else.

Is that really what he's on? Bloody hell.

[Escalator]

Is that really what he's on? Bloody hell.

I think that’s the offer that’s been on the table for a year ? Currently on £120k

[777Kidnappings]

I think that’s the offer that’s been on the table for a year ? Currently on £120k

Yeah I think I read 120-130 and we'd offered him a small payrise.

He's gonna get about 70k a week at Leeds or Sunderland which will be halved if they go down. Might cost him anywhere between 10 and 20m

[Matt1878]

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Wish I had an hour and a half spare to watch that.

[Matt1878]

A good watch, plenty of talking points.

Dom seems a very introspective , inteligent and emotional character, its difficult not to like him. All that over thinking probably makes him a better human being than a finisher though.