While the list of Everton players competing at the World Cup in Qatar from next month may be limited in numbers, one former player could earn the Toffees money months after exiting the club.
Richarlison exited Goodison Park back in June, his move to Tottenham Hotspur worth up to £60m and arriving on the final day of the financial year for Everton, meaning that they could book the guaranteed sum of £50m in their 2021/22 accounts, eased the pressure on the club from an accounting and profit and sustainability perspective.
But despite him having traded the blue of Everton for the white of Spurs, the 25-year-old Brazilian could still hand a financial boost to the Toffees months on from his departure, simply by being part of the Brazil squad at this winter's World Cup.
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Teams whose players are representing their countries in Qatar will be earning $10,000 (£8,963) per day for their clubs for the duration that they are away.
The payments, the Mirror report, are part of FIFA's Club Benefits Programme, which the governing body says is to recognise the contribution of clubs towards the tournament. In total $209m (£187.3m) has been dedicated towards the programme, which benefited more than 400 clubs across 63 nations at the previous World Cup.
FIFA said that compensation will be paid to all clubs for which a player has played in the two years prior to the World Cup. FIFA’s total fund for the World Cup is worth about $700m (£632.3m) and the federation of the eventual winners will earn $50m (£45m).
As part of the FIFA rules around payments, where they are paid to the clubs where players spent the previous two years of their careers, Richarlison would earn $10,000 per day for Everton during his time at the World Cup, and with Brazil favourites to win the tournament in Doha, the Toffees could rake in more than £350,000 from their former forward.
Jordan Pickford, England's number one, could find himself going deep into the competition and adding a similar sum to that pot, although Conor Coady's sum would head to Wolves, the same for Idrissa Gueye (Senegal) and Amadou Onana (Belgium). Lucas Digne, now of Aston Villa, misses France's World Cup through injury, but had he been selected he would have seen some of his $10,000 per day head to Everton.
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