Daily Star reporter Paul Brown has told Give Me Sport that Arsenal have been keeping tabs on Everton striker Dom Calvert-Lewin for a few years now. A player, that Ray Parlour recently urged the Gunners to sign.
Calvert-Lewin, 25, has endured a dismal season plagued by injury and while he is back in the Everton side now – he is struggling to rediscover his goalscoring touch. Indeed, he has failed to score in his last 10 games.
But his credentials are certainly not doubted. Last season, he scored 21 goals – 16 of which came in the Premier League and four goals in 11 games for England, he is surely just going through a rough patch of form.
Brown told Give Me Sport that the £60million-rated (GMS) striker is a player Arsenal have tracked for years – even before he swapped Sheffield United for Everton. Brown believes he is more likely to join, than Richarlison.
“I know for a fact that Arsenal like and have liked Calvert-Lewin for quite a few years, even before he was in the Premier League. So, They’ll make a bigger push for Calvert-Lewin than they will Richarlison in the summer.”
Brown on Calvert-Lewin: Should Everton star leave for Arsenal?
Everton have handed themselves a huge chance of Premier League survival after beating Manchester United – while Burnley and Watford both suffered defeats. So, should Calvert-Lewin stay even if Everton stay up?
The England man should only join a club where is going to be the man striker and at Arsenal, he certainly would be. Alexandre Lacazette and Eddie Nketiah are out of contract, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has gone.
Ray Parlour urged Arsenal to sign the striker last month, in quotes published by The Mirror: “He would add a new dynamic to the forward players already at the club. I think he would hold the ball up well.”
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