Crisis-club Everton set for firesale as they make EVERY player available for transfer to avoid more points deductions

EVERTON are prepared to sell any of their star players this summer as they battle financial peril.

Jarrad Branthwaite, Jordan Pickford and Amadou Onana are ALL up for sale – along with the rest of the squad.

Amadou Onana is one star Everton may have to sell this summer

APJarrad Branthwaite is a Manchester United target and Everton may have to sell[/caption]

The Toffees are reluctant to accept cut price bids for their top talents but may be forced into a corner as they bid to avoid further Premier League penalties.

Sean Dyche’s side were docked eight points this season for breaching financial rules and have until June 30 to balance their books through sales or risk more trouble next term.

Manchester United are keen on Branthwaite while England No1 Pickford is expected to attract interest.

Dominic Calvert-Lewin is into the final year of his deal at Goodison Park and has interest from Newcastle as they look to invest in the forward line.

Calvert-Lewin has been considered as a potential replacement for Callum Wilson should he leave Tyneside.

The striker has been offered a new deal by the club but is yet to agree terms.

Everton majority owner Farhad Moshiri is now able to discuss a sale of the club with other interested parties after troubled buyers 777 Partners saw their share purchase agreement expire on Friday.

Crystal Palace shareholder, John Textor, has expressed his interest in a takeover of the Merseyside club after declaring he is ready to sell his stake in the Eagles.

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Speaking last week, Textor said: “I’m very open-minded to it but I don’t want to come into a situation where I’m not really welcome.

“I’m watching it but 777 still has a contract. There are people that are close to the club who care a lot about it, who are also investing.

“There’s the guy running it who’s still calling the shots.

“Maybe we’re uniquely positioned to solve a lot of problems for people but we’re just watching it right now, because there are other people who already own pieces of that club who also want to figure it out.”

WHAT IS FFP?

SunSport’s Martin Lipton breaks down what it is all about…

FFP – or Financial Fair Play – is a concept originally introduced by Uefa in 2009, officially to prevent clubs from spending money they could not afford.

Yet many critics have rounded on the system, accusing it of being a protective instrument, drafted by the so-called “legacy clubs” to prevent insurgent and wealthier clubs from buying their way onto the top table.

The Premier League introduced its own FFP regulations which came into effect for the 2013-14 season and which, while less stringent than Uefa regulations, they do impact on club spending.

Under the current Prem “Profitability and Sustainability” regulations, clubs who are constant members of the top flight for a three-year period are allowed total losses of £105m over those three campaigns.

But it is not as simple as totting up outlay and income.

The biggest outlay, of course, is transfer fees. The 20 Prem clubs spent a total of around £2.4bn in last summer’s transfer window.

Yet that does not mean they “spent” that money as far as the Prem rules are concerned.

Transfer fees are “amortised” over the length of the contract, so, for example, a £100m fee for a player who signs a five-year deal is amortised at a cost of £20m per season for each of those five campaigns.