Everton transfer news: Conditions shared for Amadou Onana sale in January amid £26.4m update
Everton would need to be offered upwards of £60million to sell Amadou Onana during the January transfer window after a £26.4million update emerged at Goodison Park, according to Dave Powell.
The Liverpool Echo journalist reported on Monday (8 January) that the Toffees have only paid £6.6million of Onana’s original £33million transfer fee from an accounting perspective as a result of amortisation, as he is only 18 months into a five-year deal.
Therefore, Sean Dyche’s side would have to recoup roughly £26.4million through the Belgian’s sale before they even turned a profit on their investment and paid off the original fee to sign him from Lille in 2022.
Everton are likely to ask for at least double that £26.4million to allow to the 22-year-old to leave this month and it is expected that they would only be willing to accept a financial package north of £60million given his importance to Dyche’s team.
Big money
Everton don’t want to sell Onana this month and that is the primary reason that they have set such a high asking price for the Belgian, but they also don’t want to leave themselves in a financially unstable position and have therefore taken all numbers into account.
It would make no sense for them to sell the 22-year-old for the exact same fee that they paid for him last summer, as they would effectively just break even having amortised his transfer fee over the length of his contract.
Onana has improved during his time at Goodison Park and therefore that development should also be recognised when setting his asking price. Why should Everton take a loss on a player just because they have found themselves in a precarious financial position?
It remains to be seen whether or not anyone will match Everton’s £60million-plus asking price before the end of the month, but considering the numbers behind the scenes at Goodison, it feels unlikely that the Toffees will accept anything less.
In other Everton news, Fabrizio Romano believes the Toffees have “a chance” of completing their first signing of the January window