Agreed. Same with Amass over Chilwell.
Dominic Calvert-Lewin
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No no, please do chuck us 20m and DCL 150k per week.
Same
You'd rather have 20m for him than have him this season?
From our end, I think 20m is quite steep, but I'd not scoff at a 15m deal as I think - injuries aside - he's a fighter and he's also great in the air and could be quite a decent squad option.
20m probably allows us to do two or three deals in a very thin squad.
Aye. I can't see us offering that. And likely peanuts upfront. Has he been linked to Saudi yet?
PL clubs, mostly Newcastle with light interest from United/Chelsea. Will likely be one that goes to the Friday.
Tbf I'd give Everton 20m for DCL, quicker than I'd help Chelsea out by taking Sterling.
FFP restrictions make Toney and Osimhen unachievable transfers for most clubs.Why is this thread getting bumped when Toney and Osimhen are on the market?
Nobody wants DCL.
Maybe, only one way to find out
Scored today. We should sign him.
What is this source (TBRFOOTBALL) worth ? Do we have more news on his next club.
No problem with him as a free signing. He can head the ball!
Good lord no, an injury prone player for a position we desperately need improving. Absolute disaster waiting to happen.
Rather stick with Højlund than him or get David on a free.
We have better options than DCL even if we were struggling
We have better options than DCL even if we were struggling
He's awful. No thank you.
No, no, no.
Not going to happen, won’t happen (I am reasonably confident in saying that!!).
Not going to happen, won’t happen (I am reasonably confident in saying that!!).
As a free for backup for zirkzee and mateta/gyokeres (whichever we sign) id take him.
Isn't he the Luke Shaw of striker? Can't temember the last time I saw or heard him play, maybe two years ago.
A bang average injury prone player on a free is still a bang average injury prone player.
Think that the aim is to win the EPL in the next few years, we need EPL champions level players, that can compete for the Champions League trophy too.
Does DCL as a squad option get you there? then no.
We're United, he isn't good enough, not even for Everton.
The injuries have ruined him sadly. If he didn't have those injuries post Ancelotti he was on his way to being a solid 15ish goal a season striker and had everything you wanted in a modern day target man. Capable of running the channels, holding the ball up and being in the right place at the right time in the box. He's a shell of what he was now. Perhaps a new club will be able to reignite him but I doubt it.
We have a limited budget and he would be a squad option.
He's on a 100k a week apparently, like someone said he'd be our striker version of Shaw.
Not keen on this one.
No thanks
Most West Ham signing you can get.
Nah. Shaw managed c. 1700 minutes over the last two seasons compared to DCL on c. 4300 minutes. He's had much better availability despite having a few niggles.
I'd rather give Chido minutes
No thanks.
Either way it would be another player on a big wage who potentially could be unavailable due to injuries. Doubt he'd take a pay cut so that's at least 100k a week, no thanks for me.
Well if we’re clearing out shaw etc, the physios need some company or SJR will sack them for inactivity
Injured more than Martial.
This must be a joke.
This must be a joke.
Would rather Ighalo or Weghorst back
Don't worry Mount is here to take over from Shaw.
feck no.
If we have some kind of plan to initially use him sparingly off the bench and keep him fit and build him back up then on a free it’s the definition of a punt that could really pay off. He’s currently a dud but he’s a good player on his day.
Rather Welbz
Yep, not your long term solution, but even Arnautovic at Inter showed that an experienced back up striker - that might not even be a starter for the EPL's/Seria A's 10th team - is generally pretty good. Problem is that it's a big risk when they have to replace your entire goal output. Arnautovic, again, also showed that a backup in a 2-striker system is much different to a single striker one.
We sort of had Rashford before, but just any replacement to Hojlund and Zirkzee available would have been something to help improve multiple players' playing levels.
Like that person said, you cannot work towards EPL winners, so it's important to pick someone that isn't too expensive for your budget, especially if they're not willing to sign single (or two?) season contracts, so that if they aren't okay with moving down to #4 instead of #3, their contract is out soon, anyways.
But it's also a naive tunnel vision to just build to a good XI and some youth prospects and hope for the best. Odi isn't ready and has more to prove than Hojlund. You can't always find a Claudio Pizarro, but with some scouting, and if you're paying good attention during the job interviews and other talks before signing, you should be able to find a #3-#4 striker that will look better than they are while being a backup that actually supports his team.
Even Weghorst could have been all right if he didn't play so much, and he even did look like a good temporary fix in some games. Don't think his personal skills work very well, though, as he seems the Dirk Kuyt type that paints this ultimate team member picture until you pay attention to their words when someone else is picked over them. I'd take all their respective cringes if they didn't backstab their teammates and managers in any subtext they can find whenever they're not a starter. Maybe it's a Dutch thing, since Sneijder was similar, but I guess it feels different because his arrogance and selfishness looked different from these two, and we got a country full of know-it-alls
But there's more space between the ideal technical but supportive backup strikers and the strikers who nod to a well paying backup job and then shake their heads when they get what they signed up for.
Don't know if DCL is ideal, but his situation could be ideal for our current situation, whether it is by accepting a lessened role but at a big club trying to get back to its former glory, or even by using this as a stepping stone to a possible personal redemption. Single season backup strikers moving on to start elsewhere the season after would be pretty good, no? Just don't sign them up for more than 1, maybe 2 seasons when you do. And take the talks seriously as an opportunity to check whether he would (probably, people change, people lie, people do people things) actually be fine with a backup role, AND to return to that role after a string of games with quite some goals when a #1 or #2 striker returns from injury/suspension/temporary replacement due to form, etc.
He's not the only option, I assume, but if he's free (and willing) I think it's worth to get him, as long as he's not the only one, and the signing is done with enough care to avoid this Utd fall going on and on and on yet another season and then another, why pass on an experienced guy with a decent resume for your #3 or #4 striker slot? We're not title contendors now and we won't become one if we start the season with 11 players, or 13-16 for that matter, and just add 10 kids, hoping there is a PR-disaster-less Greenwood amongst them. Ideally you want 11-13 starters, and a main squad of 20-22 able to cover about everything twice, hopefully more with enough versatile players among them, and then basically 4 Heatons/Evanses to cover each line with an experienced player not too spiteful about their own decline/aging processes. Based on versatility and personalities the ideal number could look different (Garnacho as your 12th/13th man looks vastly different to someone like Zirkzee not being one of the secure starters, for example)
I don't know what type of person DCL is, but it seems worth a shot to me to at least get to know him. Just actually take that last part seriously before you rush FM2026 the fella.