{"id":352650,"date":"2025-08-17T22:01:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T22:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/352650\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T22:01:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T22:01:13","slug":"sunderland-made-really-lucrative-offer-to-leeds-united-new-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/352650\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunderland Made &#8216;Really Lucrative Offer&#8217; To Leeds United New Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Stu Forster\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"single-quote\" style=\"display: block; margin-block-start: 1em; margin-block-end: 1em; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin: 30px 0px; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;\">Dominic Calvert-Lewin received a \u2018really lucrative offer\u2019 from <a style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/sunderland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sunderland<\/a>, but snubbed the Black Cats to join <a style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/leeds-united\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leeds United<\/a>, it has been suggested.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Leeds confirmed the arrival of Calvert-Lewin on a free transfer on Friday, the striker penning a three-year deal, with Whites boss Daniel Farke <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/2025\/08\/15\/dominic-calvert-lewin-still-on-way-up-insists-leeds-united-boss-daniel-farke\/691543\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">insisting his side have signed a player on the up<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Calvert-Lewin was out of contract at <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/everton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Everton<\/a> and decided to move on from the Toffees.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There have been concerns about Calvert-Lewin\u2019s ability to stay fit on a consistent basis, but a host of sides were willing to sign him despite that.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sunderland were strongly linked with the striker, <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/2025\/08\/13\/sunderland-made-no-contract-offer-to-leeds-united-bound-star\/691253\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">though it was suggested they had not offered him a contract<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Sunderland_Regis_Le_Bris7_620_ofg.webp.webp\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now that has been contradicted and, according to talkSPORT\u2019s Alex Crook, Sunderland did indeed make Calvert-Lewin an offer and it was a lucrative one.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He said on <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/talksport.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">talkSPORT<\/a> (18:16, 17th August): \u201cHe had a lot of offers you know. I\u2019m told Sunderland made him a really lucrative offer.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<tr style=\"height: 44px;\">\nClub<br \/>\nYears<br \/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 44px;\">\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #dddddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black; height: 44px;\">Sheffield United<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #dddddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black; height: 44px;\">2014-2016<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 44px;\">\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #dddddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black; height: 44px;\">Stalybridge Celtic (loan)<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #dddddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black; height: 44px;\">2014-2015<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #dddddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">Northampton Town (loan)<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #dddddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">2015-2016<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #dddddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">Everton<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #dddddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">2016-2025<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #dddddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">Leeds United<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #dddddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">2025-<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p>Dominic Calvert-Lewin\u2019s career history<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd so did clubs in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUltimately he\u2019s decided to go to Leeds and try and be part of their survival battle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Everton_Dominic_Calvert_Lewin2_620_ofg.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Calvert-Lewin could face his former club <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/everton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Everton<\/a> in Leeds\u2019 Premier League opener on Monday night, but without a pre-season, it would be a big call for Farke to throw him into the mix.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sunderland thrashed <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/west-ham-united\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Ham United<\/a> 3-0 to start their Premier League campaign in style and leave questions being asked about the Hammers.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Only time will tell whether Calvert-Lewin has made the right decision in rejecting Sunderland in favour of Leeds, with both clubs expected to face a fight against relegation this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sunderland are due to play host to Leeds on 27th December, before visiting Elland Road in early March.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stu Forster\/Getty Images \u00a0 Dominic Calvert-Lewin received a \u2018really lucrative offer\u2019 from Sunderland, but snubbed the Black Cats&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-352650","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\/115046363484571249","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352650","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=352650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}