Rio: Dom will do job for Reds

RIO Ferdinand has urged United to consider Dominic Calvert-Lewin as a potential transfer option.

The Everton striker has blossomed into a regular Premier League goalscorer this season, netting 19 goals for the Toffees.

And former Reds captain Ferdinand believes he could make a viable - and cheaper - transfer alternative to Harry Kane and Erling Haaland for United.

“Dominic Calvert-Lewin, I love him,” he said on his Vibe with Five podcast.

“I’ve watched a lot of Everton this year and he’s one that unnerves defenders. He’s not one you want to play against week in, week out. He’s aggressive, he attacks the ball.

“I was speaking to Carlo Ancelotti earlier this year and he mentioned Inzaghi and said he didn’t need many chances to score goals and he scores goals in and around the six-yard box.

“I look at Calvert-Lewin this season and he’s listened to that, he’s taken that on board. Obviously he seems a real good student of the game and he’s started putting that into his own game.

“We’ve seen the rewards he’s had - he’s got into the England squad by scoring loads of goals in and around the six-yard box, scoring those ugly goals.

“I think he’d be a fantastic signing for Manchester United. It’s one out of left field a little bit but I think he’d have a big impact.

“He’d get on the end of the things created by Fernandes, Pogba, Rashford, Greenwood etc.

“It’s whether Ole sees that as something that is feasible but also ‘am I not going to get the likes of Haaland or Kane?’

“If either of those come up they’ll be first choice as long as the money is not crazy.

“You’re getting two players who have done it on the biggest stage in the Champions League, they’ve scored goals at the top level and know how to do it, so they have that little edge on Dominic CalvertLewin.

“I like him a lot - if he signed for Man United, I wouldn’t be sitting there thinking ‘oh no, what have we done’, I’d be rubbing my hands together thinking he’ll get goals.”