Everton struck gold on star who’s worth more than Onana in 2024 money

Everton may have avoided relegation from the Premier League once again this season, but Sean Dyche has a major job on his hands this summer to take the Merseyside outfit back into the top half of the Premier League next term.

Retaining their top-flight status came despite being deducted eight points after breaching several financial fair play regulations, which means they will have to be clever during the summer transfer window.

This could suggest Dyche may need to move a player or two on during the transfer window in order to balance the books, especially if he is looking to make several signings of his own.

It won’t be the first time Everton have had to move on their most prized assets, that’s for sure, as the likes of Wayne Rooney, Richarlison, Romelu Lukaku and John Stones have all been snapped up by bigger clubs due to their financial clout, leaving the Toffees short of a wonderful player, yet with a major profit being secured.

Dyche has plenty of young talent who he could sell to raise funds, especially Jarrad Branthwaite and Amadou Onana, who could bolster the club’s coffers, no doubt about it.

One of the most profitable pieces of transfer business the club have conducted since the turn of the century was that of selling Joleon Lescott to Manchester City back in 2009.

Joleon Lescott’s Everton statistics

The centre-back made his senior breakthrough at Wolverhampton Wanderers during the 2000/01 season, going on to eventually make 227 appearances for the Old Gold before making the move to Everton.

The Goodison Park side signed the defender for a fee in the region of £5m, which certainly looked like a bargain given how much he had shone at Wolves over the years.

David Moyes even hailed him as the “best centre-half in the Championship” giving glowing praise to the then 23-year-old as the manager bolstered his defence with the signing of Lescott.