'Of all the options, no-one better to help us stay up'

Leeds' managing director Robbie Evans believes former Everton striker Dominic Calvert-Lewin is the right man to fire the Whites to Premier League safety this season.

Daniel Farke's side outscored the rest of the Championship by more than 25 goals last season, but have only one goal so far this season in three games, a penalty from Calvert-Lewin's fellow summer acquisition Lukas Nmecha on matchday one.

While two clean sheets so far suggest defensively Leeds are in shape, Evans remains cautiously confident in his side's attacking options.

"I think we have enough firepower to stay up, but there's always a concern," he said. "Every promoted side has that concern of scoring. At the same time, the goals you allow are important.

"It's always a trade-off of adding defensive firepower versus offensive firepower and getting the balance right. I do think that our strategy this summer was balanced towards both those things.

"The goal is to win 10 games - I think we're capable of winning them."

Both Nmecha and Calvert-Lewin arrive with injury histories but Evans dismissed concerns over their fitness record, putting great store in Leeds' medical team.

"We're well aware of the risk and it was a key consideration acquiring them," he said. "We have tremendous faith in our medical team.

"When you acquire a new player, you're making a sacrifice somewhere as far as their age, their experiences, their ceiling, their character or their injury history.

"Something is not going to be perfect, unless they are the highly expensive player. We'd rather take somebody that's got the experience, the physicality, the profile, the goal record and the character, and bet on ourselves to keep them healthy, than take somebody who doesn't have that ceiling."

Calvert-Lewin has only 13 goals in his past three seasons but at 28, and with England caps under his belt, Evans believes his arrival is a coup.

"We're very proud of the way we went and got Dom, who, by the way, turned down a Champions League contract the day we signed him," he said. "We're thrilled that he's here.

"A shared view from the manager, from the recruitment and from the sporting director was that of all the options that were even plausibly available to us nobody was a better fit to the objective of staying up this season than Dominic."

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