{"id":483630,"date":"2025-10-08T18:40:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T18:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/483630\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T18:40:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T18:40:26","slug":"sam-allardyce-says-new-leeds-united-target-is-proving-everyone-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/483630\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Allardyce says new Leeds United target is proving everyone wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Finding a striker who will score Premier League goals guaranteed is one of the hardest challenges facing a sporting director, and so it turned out to be for Adam Underwood.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leeds eventually brought in Dominic Calvert-Lewin<\/a>. A free transfer, Calvert-Lewin rejected a mammoth \u00a318m deal to join Fenerbahce<\/a>, while Man United, Newcastle and Milan were all interested in a deal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 11-time England man has scored one goal so far for Leeds<\/a>, but boasts an XG of 2.78 in all six of his Leeds appearances. He has missed big chances against Tottenham, Bournemouth and in the Carabao Cup.<\/p>\n

Calvert-Lewin was not the only striker Leeds wanted to sign. Leeds made a \u00a332m bid for Rodrigo Muniz<\/a>, while Artem Dovbyk, Erdin Demirovic, Fotis Ioannidis, Nikola Krstovic, Beto and more were all linked.<\/p>\n

\"DominicPhoto by Michael Driver\/MI News\/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesLeeds are now targeting a new striker that Sam Allardyce loves<\/p>\n

With January approaching, LeedsUnited.News<\/strong> has been told that Leeds are keeping tabs on Chris Wood\u2019s situation at Nottingham Forest<\/a>. A lot depends on the future of Ange Postecoglou after his poor start.<\/p>\n

But Wood is not the typical type of striker used by Postecoglou, and with Igor Jesus starring, it may see the New Zealand skipper\u2019s game time reduce. That may allow Leeds to pounce come the January window.<\/p>\n

\"ChrisPhoto by Michael Regan\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Speaking on the No Tippy Tappy Football podcast, Sam Allardyc<\/a>e gave a glowing verdict of Wood. A striker who left Leeds for Burnley for \u00a315m back in 2017, Allardyce says Wood is proving everyone wrong.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s shut everyone up, hasn\u2019t he? He\u2019s not a striker, he\u2019s not good enough for the Premier League, he\u2019s this and that. He did it at Burnley, kept Burnley in the league for many years, and got them into Europe. <\/p>\n

MORE LEEDS UNITED STORIES<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s not fashionable, is Chris. He\u2019s not slick; he hasn\u2019t got long hair. But he does the job brilliantly. His instincts for goalscoring, fantastic. Fabulous goalscorer,\u201d former Leeds manager Allardyce summarised.<\/p>\n

Chris Wood and Dominic Calvert-Lewin\u2019s PL numbers compared<\/p>\n

Both strikers have spent the best part of a decade in the Premier League<\/a>. Calvert-Lewin with Everton and now Leeds, while Wood spent most of that time with Burnley before Newcastle and now, at Forest.<\/p>\n

The duo are both throwbacks to the typical, physical centre-forward. A dying art that has been somewhat resurrected thanks to the emergence and brilliance of Erling Haaland, and his form at Manchester City.<\/p>\n\nName<\/strong><\/td>\nClubs in PL<\/strong><\/td>\nGames<\/strong><\/td>\nMinutes<\/strong><\/td>\nGoals<\/strong><\/td>\nAssists<\/strong><\/td>\nMinutes per G+A<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDominic Calvert-Lewin<\/td>\nLeeds
Everton<\/td>\n244<\/td>\n16121<\/td>\n58<\/td>\n18<\/td>\n212.1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nChris Wood<\/td>\nForest
Newcastle
Burnley
Leicester
West Brom<\/td>\n270<\/td>\n18396<\/td>\n91<\/td>\n11<\/td>\n185.6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Whether Leeds actually need another striker is up for debate. As long as Calvert-Lewin can remain fit, the need for a new centre-forward seems small. If Leeds are to enter the market, it could be for a no.10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Finding a striker who will score Premier League goals guaranteed is one of the hardest challenges facing a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,22788,393,4884,1860,118084,100,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-483630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-chris-wood","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-leeds","13":"tag-sam-allardyce","14":"tag-transfer-news","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115340013376846020","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483630","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=483630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}