Keith Wyness suggests what Everton's Iliman Ndiaye will be worth next year - 'he's a real talent'
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Alex Oakhill
Wed 10 September 2025 9:11, UK
Everton could sell Iliman Ndiaye for up to £80million next summer after recently rejecting a bid from a giant of European football.
The 25-year-old has had an impressive start to the season, scoring in each of the Merseyside club’s last two Premier League games.
Along with Manchester City loanee Jack Grealish and new signing Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, the winger is part of a new-look Everton attack that seems to be thriving under David Moyes.
In the closing stages of the summer transfer window, the Toffees received a £40m enquiry for Ndiaye from Inter Milan, which they immediately rejected.
Everton’s former chief Keith Wyness – who served as CEO at Goodison Park between 2004 and 2009 and now runs a football consultancy advising elite clubs – believes that they could bring in double that for the Senegal international at the end of this season.
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Speaking on the new edition of Football Insider’s Inside Track podcast, Wyness insisted that Ndiaye is really enjoying his football at Everton currently, and wouldn’t want to move away from the Hill Dickinson Stadium.
The former Sheffield United man joined the Toffees from Marseille just over 12 months ago, and after a solid first season at the club, seems to have hit another level in 2025-26.
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Wyness added that if things continue in the same vein, then Ndiaye could be worth around £80m by the end of the campaign.
He told Football Insider‘s Inside Track podcast: “There are a couple of things that would mean I don’t think he’d really want to move at the moment.
“I can see that he’s really enjoying his football.
Now he’s got another couple of players there that can also be just as creative, and they’re a real threat, so I think he’s enjoying that.
He is a real talent and I think he’ll really start to show up this season.
I think his value will double for all the right reasons, football reasons.
“He was right to stay and I think he’s really enjoying himself.