Everton star ‘on the list’ of Newcastle targets in January

Lewis Oldham
Everton star Dominic Calvert-Lewin

Everton star Dominic Calvert-Lewin is “on the list” of Newcastle United targets but they face competition from their Premier League rivals, according to reports.

The striker joined the Toffees in 2016 from his boyhood club Sheffield United. His performances have stepped up a level since the start of the 2019/20 season.

Calvert-Lewin has reached 15 goals across all competitions for Everton in back to back campaigns. This form led to him making his England debut and he has now been capped eleven times.


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The 24-year-old started this season well as he scored in his first three Premier League games. He has been unavailable since then though as he suffered a fractured toe.

The Telegraph are reporting that the forward is “on the list” of Newcastle targets. They want to bring in a new centre forward to provide “support” for Callum Wilson.

Arsenal, Man City and Man United are named as “admirers” of the Everton star. It is also stated that “there is interest” in him from one “major” Bundesliga club.

Elsewhere, Steve Bruce has left Newcastle by “mutual consent”. He has stated that he “never wanted” to read people referring to him as a “tactically inept cabbage-head”:

“I really have to thank all the people who have worked alongside me, because I can be demanding and I can be hard work – especially when I was younger. “When we get beat, I get very low, but when you are managing in the Premier League with Birmingham, Wigan, Hull, Sunderland you do get better at dealing with it. You have to.

“By the time I got to Newcastle, I thought I could handle everything thrown at me but it has been very, very tough. To never really be wanted, to feel that people wanted me to fail, to read people constantly saying I would fail, that I was useless, a fat waste of space, a stupid, tactically inept cabbage-head or whatever. And it was from day one.

“When we were doing ok results wise, it was ‘yeah but the style of football is rubbish’ or I was just ‘lucky.’ It was ridiculous and persistent, even when the results were good.

“The best one was to be told we were a relegation team in all but points…this was all in the first season. We finished 13th. It [the criticism and abuse] got even worse in the second year. We finished 12th, 17 points clear of the bottom three.

“I tried to enjoy it and, you know, I did. I’ve always enjoyed the fight, proving people wrong, but that’s all it ever seemed to be. A fight, a battle. It does take its toll because even when you win a game, you don’t feel like you are winning over the supporters.”