Tottenham, Everton near £60m and £35m deals. Does the top fee stay in the league?
Tottenham and Everton are in advanced talks over 2 deals. Iliman Ndiaye to Tottenham for around £60m and Richarlison to Everton for about £35m.
What happened
Tottenham and Everton are in advanced talks over two separate transfers, with a fee of around £60m discussed for Iliman Ndiaye and around £35m for Richarlison to return to Goodison.
Fees of around £60m and £35m are under discussion. Iliman Ndiaye would move from Everton to Tottenham, and Richarlison would go back to Everton, the club he left for Tottenham in 2022. Tottenham and Everton are in advanced talks, but these are two separate deals, and neither is complete.
The transfer window closes at 23:00 BST on Tuesday . It opened on . A club that sends in a correct deal sheet before the deadline gets extra time for the paperwork only.
Most of this summer’s biggest deals have been between Premier League clubs. Chelsea paid Aston Villa £117m for Morgan Rogers, and Manchester City paid Nottingham Forest £116m for Elliot Anderson. These are the two largest deals of the window.
Tottenham bought Sandro Tonali from Newcastle for £100m and Mateus Fernandes from West Ham for £85m. Arsenal bought Bruno Guimarães from Newcastle for £75m and Ezri Konsa from Villa for £51m.
Sources: Sky Sports (2), Premier League, ESPN
The Pattern
In three of the four summers we checked, a league club got the top fee. We looked at the biggest fee a Premier League club paid in each summer window since 2019. We used only the four summers where a first-hand report, cited below, confirms that fee. For each, we asked one question: was the selling club also in the Premier League? We left out summers we could not check. A reader who can find a source for a missing summer can send it, and it goes in.
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The Read
History says the biggest fee is likely to stay in the league. This summer’s two biggest deals were between Premier League clubs, and so were Tottenham’s two largest buys. The two clubs talking on Sunday each want something the other has. Everton have a forward who has turned down contract offers, and Tottenham have one who wants to leave. Deals like this are the easiest to finish in forty-eight hours, because only the price is still open and both clubs work under the same money rules.
The weak spot is that each club can hold up the other deal. Last September, Marc Guéhi’s move to Liverpool fell apart at the last hour, even with a fee agreed, when the selling club’s own sums stopped working. These two deals could fail if either club decides the other needs the deal more and starts raising the price on Tuesday afternoon.
The record is also small. We could check only four summers, and the one exception, 2022, was a deadline-day buy from the Netherlands. The deadline at 23:00 on settles it.
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