Newcastle United considering bargain deal for Dominic Calvert-Lewin in January – Report | OneFootball

Dominic Calvert-Lewin has repeatedly refused to sign a new contract at Everton.

So as things stand, the striker is set to be a free agent in nine months time.

Everton with the choice of seeing what they can get for their first choice centre-forward in this next January 2025 transfer window, or else they could end up losing him for nothing.

Now Talksport say that their information is that Newcastle United could finally sign Dominic Calvert-Lewin in a bargain deal, with now that January window only three months away.

Eddie Howe and NUFC have repeatedly been linked with the Everton forward and as recently as this summer 2024 transfer window, United were said to have been in negotiations with the Toffees, only for an insistence on a £40m valuation to end that summer interest.

If Dominic Calvert-Lewin is desperate to make his escape from Goodison Park, as appears to be clearly the case, then surely Everton with their battered financial position will need to get whatever they can for the player in January. Even if new owners do indeed get the keys to Goodison Park, they are still inheriting a total shambles and in particular, on the finance front.

A one-time England striker, Dominic Calvert-Lewin scored 29 goals in 62 Premier League starts across the 2019/20 and 2020/21 seasons. However, injury issues saw him only start 15 Premier League matches in each of the next two seasons, scoring only seven goals in those 30 PL starts.

Last season he bounced back to something like full fitness and featured in 32 Premier League games, starting 26 of them.

However, playing in the ultra defensive Sean Dyche set-up, only Sheffield United scored less Premier League goals than Everton’s feeble 40 in 38 games, so that goes a long way to explain why Dominic Calvert-Lewin only managed seven PL goals in 2023/24.

Starting all six Premier League matches this season and scoring a couple of goals, it looks like Dominic Calvert-Lewin has now turned it around.

At the age of 27 he should be heading into his prime now and if Eddie Howe can get him at a decent price, it could be a good deal for Newcastle United, as cover for Alexander Isak and indeed possibly play alongside him at times.

Any move for Dominic Calvert-Lewin would also surely then coincide with Callum Wilson finally moving on, his injury record and the fact he turns 33 in February, may well see his sale and the cash and PSR flex used towards signing the Everton star, as well as Newcastle United potentially signing one or more other players in January, such as a right-footed central defender…