05 Jul 2025 22:07:48
Dominic Calvert Lewin. a wind up surely?
05 Jul 2025 23:47:11
As a back up striker on a free it's good business.
06 Jul 2025 00:39:33
If not for his wage demands, I'd agree with Salford.
However, he wants £100k+ pw - I'd rather stick with Hojlund.
06 Jul 2025 04:02:47
Liverpool fan here. DCL is a massive upgrade on Hojlund (if he stays fit) . Cunha and Mbuemo are fantastic signings and with the market being what it is for strikers I acc think this could be a good signing for you lads.
If only you had a decent manager and maybe you could challenge the top 8 this season ?.
06 Jul 2025 07:48:35
Bmena, DO ONE ?.
06 Jul 2025 09:57:10
Decent signing for back up imo much better than rasmus for that back up role and helps with the home-grown quota.
Let's hope we are not relying on him as 1st choice.
But as a no2 i'd be quite happy to have him there as an option in games.
06 Jul 2025 10:23:51
The only way that happens is if both Hojlund and Zirkzee leave, which isn’t going to happen.
1. New
2. Zirkzee
3. Chido
Will be our centre forward options for next season.
06 Jul 2025 10:34:56
We’re not catching up with Liverpool, City and Arsenal if we’re signing out of contract Calvert - Lewin and the likes.
As much as I’m not impressed with Hojlund, he’s not much better. He last scored double figures in 20/ 21. Since then he’s had 5,2, 7 and 3 in the league. Free or not, we need to aiming higher than this.
06 Jul 2025 11:11:22
My instinct said this could be a good move, and yet Rasmus has scored more league goals that DCL over the past 2 seasons. DCL had a great season 5 years ago. He was then injured and wasn't been good since he got back 2 years ago so I think we steer clear.
06 Jul 2025 11:28:00
Been injured a lot if think he has a better goals to minutes ratio than rasmus over last 2 years.
As a 2nd striker he is a decent option if needed.
06 Jul 2025 11:28:14
This chat has lost its mind.
I’ve not posted for a while as I wanted to wait and see how the window progressed but this thread was too bad to ignore!
DCL has scored 17 league goals in the last 5 seasons and he’s perpetually injured.
So some of you seriously want to pay north of £100k per week for a player on a 4 or 5 year contract just for them to sit in the physios room for the next few years. Even when he’s fit he’s average at best.
Some say he’d be a decent back up striker but we haven’t even signed a first choice striker yet!
Get real guys, we finished 15th last season, so if we want to stay 15th and continue to complain about bang average, injury prone players on massive contracts then this is exactly the type of deal we should be doing.
If we want to improve and stop making ridiculous decisions then we shouldn’t even be contemplating DCL.
06 Jul 2025 11:30:09
His injury record is poor and his wages likely high so while I see where some people are coming from…not for me!
06 Jul 2025 11:47:31
Worrying, if true. With no European football, we’re not going to need a large squad next season. We already have Chido, Rasmus, and Zirkzee, and with Amorim’s system, I can only see us signing one more striker. If the plan is for us to go through next season with an injury prone (and fairly mediocre) DCL as our main goalscoring threat then I can’t see things going too much better than the season just gone.
06 Jul 2025 12:01:46
Excellent observations DLIB. I agree with you.
06 Jul 2025 12:23:59
Tumble, just because he’s got a better goals to minutes ratio than Hojlund, doesn’t mean he’s been good. Hojlund has just had a shocking season. We need a first choice no.9 who automatically starts in front of Hojlund and Zirkzee if they both stay.
DLIB is right, we finished 15th last season. Cunha apart, we haven’t added anything to this completely useless squad of players. An injury prone striker, who’s arguably worse than what we have is going to push us up the table.
06 Jul 2025 13:23:27
His league goals to games in last 2 years is worse than Rasmus, but they are both very very poor. Rasmus is a goal even 4.42 league games, DCL is a goal every 5 league games. It seems he's never recovered his from post injuries, which explains why it appears he doesn't have a queue of clubs lined up.
{Ed025's Note - after watching him for many years guys i think he is not the kind of signing Man U need, maybe as an impact sub because he is very good in the air but in front of goal he is woeful (and thats not sour grapes), his injury record is terrible and bar for one season under Carlo his goal return has been very poor, if he does come it will be for a last pay day because if we were going to offer £100k a week he would have stayed with us..
06 Jul 2025 13:55:55
Bmena
You really are talking complete waffle there mate.
Only once has Calvert-Lewin scored more in a single season than Hojlund did in 23/ 24.
Aside from his 2 good seasons (15 goals in 19/ 20 and 21 goals in 20/ 21), he hasn't once reached double figures in any other season - whereas Hojlund has never failed to reach double figures in any season of senior football.
Hojlund has a better goals-per-minutes ratio than Calvert-Lewin and the same applies to assists.
Last season shows the difference nicely. Hojlund apparently had a bad season but:
Calvert-Lewin played more.
He got only 7 goals to Hojlund's 10, of which 2 were penalties.
He takes more shots than Hojlund, but less than 40% are on target and less than 10% result in goals.
He's attempted more passes, but completed less.
He's attempted more challenges and take-ons, but completed less.
He gets tackled more, is less direct with his carries, he commits more fouls, strays offside more.
The only metric where he is actually genuinely better is aerial duels, that's it.
I read those stats and understand that, while Calvert-Lewin probably has a superior football IQ with better reading of the game, he is inferior in terms of natural ability.
So, while I'd be ok for Calvert-Lewin to arrive as a backup option if he wasn't expecting £100k+ pw, he is 100% nothing remotely like an upgrade on Hojlund, as absolutely proven by the above.
Put simply, anyone who actually believes Calvert-Lewin is an upgrade on Hojlund needs to avoid crossing roads.
06 Jul 2025 13:59:46
hell… if ever there was a post and replied to sum up our ambition and where we are as a club is this right here
This would be the tipping point to a decade of average.
Relegation fodder donning the red shirts. Jesus, we are doomed if that’s the case.
06 Jul 2025 14:03:20
I don’t believe the rumour because it’s idiotic! He had one decent season over 5 years ago now and has been injured ever since. He’ll be 29 in March and he’ll demand well north of £100k per week, plus a signing on fee, on a 4 or 5 year deal. Even when playing well and fully fit (which he’s not been for years) he’s still average at best.
We are a Club in financial difficulty, we have just made hundreds of staff redundant, just to pay an average player well over £100k per week as a back up option to come off the bench or more likely sit in the physio room next to Shaw and Mount so we can fork out over £500k a week on players that have zero impact on the team. What Club pays that much money for a back up striker?
If Utd do this deal we’ll have just another player on a massive contract that we can’t get rid of and it would be an insult to all those people that have lost their jobs, for the Club to waste yet more millions on idiotic recruitment.