Daily Cannon
·14 April 2024
Daily Cannon
·14 April 2024
SUNDERLAND, ENGLAND: Sunderland player Dan Ballard (l) challenges Coventry striker Viktor Gyokeres during the Sky Bet Championship between Sunderland and Coventry City at Stadium of Light on July 31, 2022. (Photo by Stu Forster/Getty Images)
FootballTransfers reports that Everton have a concrete interest in signing Sunderland’s Daniel Ballard in the summer as a replacement for Jarrad Branthwaite.
Everton are reportedly watching Ballard very closely, with Sunderland expected to demand around £20m for the former Arsenal defender.
That would be good news for the Gunners, with Arsenal in line to profit from a potential transfer.
Daniel Ballard with the Arsenal u23s (Photo via Arsenal Academy on Twitter)
According to Football.London, the Gunners negotiated a ‘significant’ sell-on clause into Ballard’s transfer in 2022.
Though there was no official word on the exact percentage Arsenal had managed to negotiate, you’d expect to get further details on that if and when Ballard’s sale materialises.
Arsenal only brought in £2m for Ballard’s initial transfer, but it looks like they could be set to add to that total in the coming transfer windows.
Daniel Ballard with Northern Ireland (Photo via Ballard on Twitter)
Ballard has made 39 appearances for Sunderland in the Championship this season, on top of his international appearances for Northern Ireland.
The centre-back is a regular for his country, most recently starting in a friendly against Scotland during the last international break.
A sell-on clause is a common contractual agreement inserted into a player’s transfer agreement between two clubs. Its basic function is to ensure that the selling club receives a portion of any future transfer fee if the player moves on to another team.
Why use sell-on clauses?