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James Murray

Tue 5 August 2025 7:00, UK

Everton appear to have “done a Chelsea” after an update has emerged surrounding their women’s team. 

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Chelsea sold their women’s team to owners BlueCo last summer for around £200million, helping them turn their previous £90million loss for 2022-23 into a £128million profit for 2023-24.

The Times reported on 28 July Everton have sold their women’s team to a parent company in a move that should generate a paper profit of tens of millions of pounds that could help the club make new signings and still comply with the PSR rules.

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However, Everton finance expert Paul Quinn reported on 28 July Everton have “not done a Chelsea” regarding the women’s team. 

He added the ownership transfer has not been completed at a vast profit, while the profit for Roundhouse will occur once it brings in new investors.

Speaking exclusively to Football Insider, Borson said: “Everton seemed to be briefing they’ve not done it for a big profit, and nor is it for an immediate PSR benefit for 2024-25, the season just gone.

“I can come up with various theories on it, but the most likely scenario is they’ve done it for a PSR benefit because they were there or thereabouts on PSR for 2024-25 and wanted to create a little bit of additional capacity going forward, so as anybody would do, they pulled the rip cord and sold the women’s team and created an internal profit, which is a perfectly sensible thing to do in this day and age.

“I think it’s extremely likely that they’ve just done a Chelsea women’s team transfer to generate profits that creates additional capacity and that they’ll spend on footballers.” 

Everton owner Dan Friedkin has transferred the ownership of the club’s women’s team (Credit: Imago)

In terms of a potential incoming, Football Insider revealed on 2 August Everton could sign Tyler Dibling this summer for half of Southampton’s initial asking price.
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