Everton forward Dominic Calvert-Lewin has started his summer by heading to Germany in a bid to overcome his injury issues.
The 26-year-old has endured two injury-blighted campaigns, scoring just twice last season after knee, shoulder and hamstring problems seriously limited his availability.
Now the striker, desperate to find a long-term solution to his recent struggles, has travelled to a specialist centre on the continent in a bid to improve his chances of maintaining fitness.
Calvert-Lewin has visited the Myos Sports and Health Clinic in Munich at the beginning of the Everton squad’s summer break. The clinic says it provides an holistic approach to sustainable and effective fitness and is a go-to for footballers and other athletes seeking solutions to injury concerns.
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Calvert-Lewin suffered another season of frustration after working hard to get into top condition during the same period last year. After struggling for fitness across the 2021/22 campaign, he returned to score the goal that kept Everton in the Premier League - his diving header against Crystal Palace - and then embarked on extra-curricular fitness work that left the club's coaching team impressed by his condition when he returned for pre-season.
His ambitions for the season - and potentially making a late surge for a spot in England’s World Cup squad - were then destroyed by what then-manager Frank Lampard described as a “freak” knee injury on the eve of the new campaign.
When Calvert-Lewin came back he opened the scoring in the 3-0 home victory over Palace but a series of setbacks curtailed his impact. Under Sean Dyche he was given additional time and patience to deal with a hamstring issue and played an important part as the Blues earned four vital points against Leicester City and Brighton and Hove Albion in the final weeks of the season.
But a further hamstring issue saw him withdrawn during the first half at Wolverhampton Wanderers before missing the final game of the season - the narrow win over Bournemouth that confirmed Everton’s survival.
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