{"id":400381,"date":"2026-01-31T10:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T10:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/400381\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T10:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T10:03:08","slug":"dominic-calvert-lewin-leeds-striker-eyes-england-return-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/400381\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominic Calvert-Lewin: Leeds striker eyes England return"},"content":{"rendered":"

After almost a decade at Everton<\/a>, the change of scenery has clearly done Calvert-Lewin the world of good. <\/p>\n

With nine Premier League goals he has outscored big-money arrivals like Hugo Ekitike, Viktor Gyokeres and Benjamin Sesko.<\/p>\n

“I just felt like I needed a fresh start,” he said. <\/p>\n

“I think that I’d gone from a 19-year-old boy to a 28-year-old man and deep down a fresh start is what I felt like I needed. <\/p>\n

“So obviously when communication started with Leeds<\/a>, I felt that this was the place for me to come in and thrive and get back to my best level.”<\/p>\n

Key for Calvert-Lewin has been the faith Farke has shown in him.<\/p>\n

The German coach said recently that he had always been a big fan of Calvert-Lewin and would always sign him if the opportunity presented itself.<\/p>\n

“I had a phone call with him one or two days before I signed and he spoke for maybe 30 minutes,” Calvert-Lewin said of his first conversation with Farke.<\/p>\n

“I was just listening and his personality came through. I could tell that he was a caring person and he cared about his players, and he was just emphasising how he wanted to get me back to my best level. <\/p>\n

“That relationship’s just grown and grown and grown.<\/p>\n

“You know he has a human side, which I think that then gets the players to be more attentive to the messaging and ultimately makes us play better.”<\/p>\n

Calvert-Lewin added: “The thing about players needing an arm around them – some players need shouting out to get the best out of them, I’m a player that needs a bit of both. <\/p>\n

“Where I was at in my career six months ago, he’s the type of manager that I needed.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After almost a decade at Everton, the change of scenery has clearly done Calvert-Lewin the world of good.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-400381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}