Everton to sell Jarrad Branthwaite for 100x profit – ‘I’ll go on record’, says Keith Wyness
Former Everton chief Keith Wyness has insisted Everton can sell Jarrad Branthwaite for a fee of £100million this summer.
Speaking on the new edition of Football Insider’s Inside Track podcast, the 66-year-old – who served as CEO at Goodison Park between 2004 and 2009 and now runs a football consultancy advising elite clubs – claimed such a sale would “make a big difference” to the club’s faltering accounts.
Wyness has already told Football Insider (5 April) that he “expects” the club to sell “one or two” assets like Branthwaite, Amadou Onana and Jordan Pickford this summer.
That statement came after Everton posted another loss of £89.1million for the 2022-23 campaign.
The Toffees have already been handed a six-point deduction and face another punishment for exceeding the Premier League’s Profitability and Sustainability Rules (PSR) up to last season.
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Branthwaite was signed for just £1million from Carlisle in 2020 and Wyness claimed Everton could get 100 times that outlay for the centre-back this summer.
He told Football Insider‘s Insider Track podcast: “Branthwaite will have a great book value.
“He was bought for a very small fee, and that’s where you can make a big difference pretty quickly to the accounts.
“Branthwaite, I’ll go on record as saying he could be a £100million player.
“He’s got the talent, he’s just been called up for England. Whether that’s £80million up front with the rest in add-ons or different targets – I think we’re getting to that level.
“There’s been rumours of interest from Real Madrid, and when you get an auction like that from the big clubs – you’re going to be reaching pretty big numbers.”
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