{"id":340953,"date":"2025-08-13T10:54:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T10:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/340953\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T10:54:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T10:54:18","slug":"leeds-agree-deal-for-outstanding-striker-medical-imminently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/340953\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds Agree Deal for \u2018Outstanding\u2019 Striker, Medical Imminently"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.givemesport.com\/tag\/leeds-united\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leeds<\/a> have reached an agreement in principle to sign former Everton striker Dominic Calvert-Lewin as a free agent, journalist David Ornstein has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tntsports.co.uk\/football\/premier-league\/2023-2024\/dominic-calvert-lewin-sean-dyche-talks-up-striker-s-england-chances-after-outstanding-display-agains_sto10116807\/story.shtml\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;outstanding&#8217;<\/a> England international is set to undergo a medical at Leeds\u2019 training ground Thorp Arch &#8216;imminently&#8217; and is poised to become their second striker arrival of the summer following Lukas Nmecha.<\/p>\n<p>Calvert-Lewin has been available on a free since departing Everton upon the expiry of his contract, after spending nine years at Goodison Park.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old forward scored 71 goals in 274 appearances for the Toffees, who had offered him a new deal last summer, but the two parties failed to agree terms.<\/p>\n<p>                        <strong>Leeds Set to Sign Dominic Calvert-Lewin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>                    <img width=\"3000\" height=\"1500\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dominic Calvert-Lewin during a pre-match warm-up at Everton\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/mixcollage-13-jan-2025-09-58-am-4195.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/mixcollage-13-jan-2025-09-58-am-4195.jpg\" style=\"display:block;height:auto;max-width:100%;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ornstein, writing on X, has revealed that Leeds are now close to completing a deal for Calvert-Lewin, with the forward set to undergo a medical at Thorp Arch &#8216;imminently&#8217;:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leeds have reached an agreement in principle to sign former Everton striker Dominic Calvert-Lewin as a free agent,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-340953","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115021090958140597","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}