{"id":344360,"date":"2025-08-14T17:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T17:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/344360\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T17:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T17:05:12","slug":"ross-mccormack-says-leeds-united-should-have-signed-88-goal-striker-instead-of-dominic-calvert-lewin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/344360\/","title":{"rendered":"Ross McCormack says Leeds United should have signed 88-goal striker instead of Dominic Calvert-Lewin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Former Leeds United striker Ross McCormack has named the striker the club should have signed ahead of their expected deal for Dominic Calvert-Lewin.<\/strong><\/p>\n

England international Dominic Calvert-Lewin<\/a> is expected to complete his free transfer to Leeds United in the coming days ahead of their first game back in the Premier League<\/a> season. <\/p>\n

Calvert-Lewin\u2019s impending arrival<\/a> is a significant boost for Leeds\u2019 boss, Daniel Farke<\/a>, who has made no secret of the need for new signings to bolster the club\u2019s options in attack. <\/p>\n

Ross McCormack<\/a> knows exactly what it takes to score goals for Leeds, having scored a total of 53 goals in 144 games for the club, including 29 goals in all competitions in the 2013\/14 season. <\/p>\n

However, McCormack has doubts over Leeds\u2019 move to sign Calvert-Lewin<\/a>, as he named the Premier League striker they should have signed instead.<\/p>\n

\"RossPhoto by Tony Marshall\/Getty ImagesRoss McCormack delivers verdict on new Leeds United signing <\/p>\n

Appearing as a guest on the TalkSport Breakfast Show on 14th August, McCormack raised his doubts over Leeds\u2019 swoop to bring in Calvert-Lewin on a free transfer. <\/p>\n

Although he believes a change of environment may be a positive development for Calvert-Lewin, McCormack believes Callum Wilson<\/a>, who has scored 88 goals in the Premier League, would have been a safer signing. <\/p>\n

McCormack said: \u201cSometimes a change of environment does a lot for players. He might go there, feel fresh, feel alive again. He might have felt maybe he was going a little bit stale at Everton towards the end, in the last couple of years. <\/p>\n

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\u201cBut, if he\u2019s fit, he will get chances. But, you know, it\u2019s just whether he can stay fit and take those chances.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think for me, if I was going to go down that route, I would probably have preferred, I\u2019ve said this before, that I would have liked Leeds to have gone and got Callum Wilson.\u201d<\/p>\n

How does Dominic Calvert-Lewin compare to Callum Wilson?<\/p>\n

Wilson left Newcastle after five seasons, at the end of his contract, and eventually agreed a move to Leeds\u2019 potential relegation rivals, West Ham, on what the London Evening Standard<\/a> described as a \u201cheavily incentive-based salary\u201d. <\/p>\n

Wilson and Calvert-Lewin have played exactly the same number of games in the Premier League to date, with 239 appearances each. Wilson outscores Calvert-Lewin comfortably in that period, with 88 goals to Calvert-Lewin\u2019s 57. <\/p>\n\nDominic Calvert-Lewin and Callum Wilson compared<\/td>\nDominic Calvert-Lewin<\/td>\nCallum Wilson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nAge<\/td>\n28<\/td>\n33<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nPremier League Appearances<\/td>\n239<\/td>\n239<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nPL Goals<\/td>\n57<\/td>\n88<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nPL Assists<\/td>\n15<\/td>\n23<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2024\/25 xG per 90<\/td>\n0.3<\/td>\n0.08<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nMost PL Goals in a season<\/td>\n16<\/td>\n18<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

The former Newcastle man also has the edge in the number of assists, with 23 in total, compared to 15 for Calvert-Lewin. <\/p>\n

However, Calvert-Lewin\u2019s xG per 90 minutes was significantly better than Wilson\u2019s last season, according to FootyStats<\/a>. The former Everton man averaged 0.3 xG per 90, to Wilson\u2019s 0.08. <\/p>\n

At 28 years old, Calvert-Lewin also has time on his side. Wilson is approaching the twilight of his career at 33 years old, and Leeds are right to hope that their impending signing has more to give in the remainder of his career. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Leeds United striker Ross McCormack has named the striker the club should have signed ahead of their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,33761,393,4884,1860,106043,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-344360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-dominic-calvert-lewin","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-leeds","13":"tag-ross-mccormack","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115028212024627529","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344360","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=344360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}