Youssef Chermiti sold to Rangers at a loss | OneFootball

The only moves confirmed so far on a hugely disappointing Deadline Day are outward, with Youssef Chermiti securing a permanent transfer to Glasgow Rangers, the transfer fee understood to start at £8M, with £2M add-ons.

The 21-year-old, who was behind Beto and Thierno Barry in the pecking order for leading the line, was left out of the squad for the EFL Cup game against Mansfield Town as he looked to confirm his departure from the club after two largely fruitless years.

Everton signed Chermiti from Sporting CP in 2023 for a reported fee of £14M, including add-ons. But Chermiti struggled for game time, and despite being a highly rated prospect by some, injuries hampering his ongoing development and he has struggled for game time, first under Sean Dyche, and then under David Moyes.

Chermiti, brought in as a striker with great promise, made 24 appearances for the Blues, most of them being cameos off the bench,  without scoring a single goal.

"He has got a good chance of going on loan,” the Everton manager said in the pre-match press conference before facing Wolves on Saturday. But the discussions with Rangers eventually homed in on a permanent transfer.

A permanent move away is likely to be seen as beneficial for all concerned at this stage of his career.

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Ernie Baywood 1 Posted 01/09/2025 at 20:57:00

Kind of tempers the theory of buying young and at least recouping your money. Although you could argue that losing a third of the value isn't bad when a signing just hasn't shown anything like the ability required.

I'm not sure I'd call the deadline day "hugely disappointing". We did some good business earlier – that's better than scrambling around at the last minute. Yes, we still need some reinforcements but it was never likely to happen in one window.

It's always nice to have some deadline day excitement but that's just for entertainment rather than as a sign of the club's progress.

Ian Wilkins 3 Posted 01/09/2025 at 21:03:40

If we bought him for £14M, and have written down his book value over the 2 years he's been with us, then we cover our remaining book value, I think. We would make a small profit if achieve add ons.

It hasn't been a success from anybody's perspective has it, but Thelwell still believes there's a player in there. I believe we inserted a sell-on clause clawback.

Paul Grifiths 4 Posted 01/09/2025 at 21:05:24

Ernie (1), the 'deadline day' was or at least has so far been 'hugely disappointing'. The window more generally has been a good one. We needed a right-back very very badly. We didn't get one. And that for me is 'hugely disappointing'.

Chermiti is another example of a transfer failure. It borders on criminal these days to buy and sell a young fella like him at a loss. Even worse for him, he's heading off to Scotland's laughing-stock.

Annika Herbert 6 Posted 01/09/2025 at 21:14:35

Ian @ 5, it’s not like Moyes has a great record with strikers either is it?

Ryan Holroyd 7 Posted 01/09/2025 at 21:14:45

Going to ignore the signing of Ndiaye, are we, Ian?

Joe McMahon 8 Posted 01/09/2025 at 21:15:08

Do we have any more strikers other than Barry and Beto?

Ryan Holroyd 9 Posted 01/09/2025 at 21:23:41

Chermiti is another example of a transfer failure. It borders on criminal these days to buy and sell a young fella like him at a loss.

I disagree with this. The lad was injured for most of his time here. I'm sure he didn't want to be injured

We won't make a loss on him if he does well and we get a couple of million on any profit he makes.

'Criminal' is when we sign players like Gbamin for £25M plus £65k a week wages and he leaves on a free.

Many many more examples of this kind of transfer.

Am I right in thinking still possible loans to come, which was always going to be a more likely scenario.

Chermiti was in a relegation squad and got injured as well. During his time with Everton, he was never going to get the ball played to him as he would have at Sporting.

Everton was a bad move for him development-wise; Rangers might be a bit better. Someone who'd just seen the money. I would have stayed in Lisbon. Once he gets Arctic conditions in Glasgow, he will think the same.

Ryan Holroyd 13 Posted 01/09/2025 at 21:29:27

No, that's it for this window, Jerome (unless we sign a free agent).

Bobby Mallon 14 Posted 01/09/2025 at 21:29:29

Joe @8,

We have Braiden Graham.

Gavin Johnson 15 Posted 01/09/2025 at 21:30:06

Not that much of a loss. I'd be very surprised if he, or the club met any of the targets that would trigger any of the clauses where the fee reached anywhere near £14m.

I'd be very surprised if he doesn't succeed up there. And if he does start performing we'll get another £2m and pretty much break even.

Moyes clearly doesn't rate him, or else it would have been straight loan with a view to integrate him into, or around the first team next summer along with Armstrong.

Gavin Johnson 17 Posted 01/09/2025 at 21:41:10

Jake, Graham's name is only getting brought up because we're so woefully short of options with Martin Sherif and Francis Okoronkwo going out on loan.

Looks like Ndiaye will be used if there's injuries to Beto and Barry.

Jake FitzGerald 18 Posted 01/09/2025 at 21:48:00

I’m aware of that Gavin. He’s still not anywhere near getting a senior game for at least 3 more years - that’s my point.

Ryan Holroyd 19 Posted 01/09/2025 at 21:51:06

Martin Sherif and Francis Okoronkwo will never play Premier League football, so hardly a big loss.

David Currie 20 Posted 01/09/2025 at 21:58:54

Good decision to sell him and at least get some money back, 24 appearances and no goals!

Needs to play at a lower level of football and then progress from there.

Gavin Johnson 21 Posted 01/09/2025 at 22:28:56

Jake, I've not scanned through all the messages but I'm guessing his name only being brought up for no other reason than that we're short of strikers?

Realistically none of our under-21 players are good enough for the bench, but that's why we should have brought someone in to replace Chermiti, then we wouldn't have ridiculous shouts about Braiden Graham.

Bill Gienapp 22 Posted 01/09/2025 at 23:47:08

Surprised we cut bait, rather than sending him out on loan. He obviously didn't play much, but there were glimpses of a player there. Onwards.

Dupont Koo 23 Posted 02/09/2025 at 00:45:32

That £10MM price tag on paper could be in so many installments that while we might have recorded a barely "On Par" on the P&L Statement for this season, we might not get the full cash amount in until God-Knows-When.

Anyhow, not liking this deal at all, mostly due to the distressed price tag and giving up on the potential, but Chermiti is not the first one, and won't be the last one, who incurred Moyes' rumoured wrath (for "not training hard enough"): when that happens, the players' price tag would plummet faster than the Tech Stocks in Nasdaq.

Kudos to Thelwell's opportunistic raid of acquiring a distressed asset on the cheap that he knows very well of.

Matt Traynor 24 Posted 02/09/2025 at 05:13:31

Bear in mind Sporting had a sell-on clause of 20% of profit. So they effectively get zero. Supposedly Everton have a substantial sell-on in this deal, so if the lad comes good and Rangers inevitably sell, it'll work well.

Robert Tressell 25 Posted 02/09/2025 at 07:43:43

A very minor bit of business. Whether it’s a loss or not depends on terms with Lisbon and Rangers. The real problem is his injury record - which mean none of us know if he’s any good.

I’d have preferred a loan to see if he can come good but obviously we’re still operating on a very tight budget. What can you do?

Hopefully we can start buying a higher volume of players like this, loaning developing and trading them for profit as other clubs do to ease PSR and generate funds for bigger transfers.

I wouldn’t be surprised to see Graham debut this season - but just a few minutes here or there. Agree with Ryan that Sherif and Okoronkwo are nowhere near Prem standard.

As ever the answer to most searching questions about our squad snd transfer business is money. Although I do think we’ve overstocked centre mid at the strange expense of the flanks.

Si Cooper 26 Posted 02/09/2025 at 09:46:42

I was really worried that his toe injury was something that would leave him with a permanent traction issue (I believe the big toe is crucial for forwards propulsion and know that evulsions can be problematic healers) but I presume he's passed a rigorous medical at Rangers.

Must mean he's just not expected to become good enough anymore.Good luck to the lad anyway.

Neil Cremin 27 Posted 02/09/2025 at 10:45:36

Neutral on this as did think he was a good footballer but was injured for most of his time so we never had the opportunity to find out. Probably best decision for all.

Amusing how TW posters can't resist a chance to vent their prejudices no matter what the topic.

Mmm, Michael we paid £11.5M for him over 4 years and he never reached any of his cost add-on targets.

With amortisation his book value was £5.25M as his 2nd anniversary has well and trully been and gone so technically and for the purposes of the all important financial accounts the club have sold him at an initial £2.75M profit.

Nor do we need to pay Sporting CP any money as we sold him for less than the original transfer fee.

29 Posted 02/09/2025 at 13:12:19

I think I would look at it differently, Iain.

I think when we bought him, his intrinsic value to us, or so we thought at the time, was the amount we agreed to pay for him, which let's say was £11½M.

Now, it's 2 years later and, with a young developing prospect, you would reasonably expect his value to increase, not decrease. But we sold him for less than we bought him, hence the loss.

£11.5M – £8M equals a loss of £3.5M.

Amortisation is a meaningless bookkeeping exercise that has nothing whatsoever to do with a player's intrinsic value or his sell-on price, which in this case is £8M. And that's less than we bought him for, hence the loss.

Dave Abrahams 31 Posted 02/09/2025 at 14:04:07

I hope those ridiculing the thought of Braiden Graham getting into Everton’s first team in the near future have seen him.

James Newcombe 32 Posted 02/09/2025 at 18:56:54

Good luck to him - if he can’t score up there then he may as well pack it in! I’ll be looking out for his name anyways.

Justin Doone 33 Posted 02/09/2025 at 21:36:54

If he can stay injury free I think he'll be a big success with Rangers and at some point I expect to see him back in the Premier league.

He had a lot of qualities a forward needs but robustness and mentality are far harder to judge.

Both will be tested in Glasgow and I wish him all the best of luck.

I disagree with those who think the Scottish league is poor. They may not have the finances, but passion and work ethic aplenty. I'm not convinced Everton of the last few seasons would not also struggle in that league. I certainly wouldn't expect us to be fighting for the title.

It's certainly comparable to a mid to lower EPL / top Championship quality.

Justin # 33, the standard of Scottish football is atrocious. The Old Firm often do okay in European cup games because it’s a one off tie etc. But over the course of a season they’d be slaughtered in the Premier League. Sunderland would be runaway Champions up there - as would 3 or more Championship sides.

The old firm would struggle to get out of the Championship with their current squads and many top flight Scottish teams would struggle to get out of our division 3.

That’s not to say there aren’t a few good players up there. But really the overall standard is really awful