OFFICIAL: Chelsea complete £25.9m sale which could provide the cash for defensive signing | OneFootball

We missed this at the time, but we’re completionists so we want to make sure it’s covered.

In a busy week of news, including several sales and some bad injury news, Chelsea completed a deal to sell Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall to Everton.

Midfielder moves on and Chelsea get their money back

Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall move to Everton is announced by the Merseyside club.

Dewsbury-Hall struggled upon first arriving at Chelsea, but gradually worked his way into the team and became a useful squad option for Enzo Maresca.

As ever, the fee is not specific, but the well connected Ben Jacobs says that the Toffees have paid £25.9m up front, with a further £4m in bonuses potentially added to that.

That means we can break even on the deal, not bad considering we basically got the player for a year as a rental.

He should be able to make much more of an impact for Everton, and gets to start in their new era at a new stadium.

Chelsea already look to have moved on and forgotten about KDH

Last night in the friendly against Bayer Leverkusen we got the first preview of how the squad was looking without KDH – let’s just say, we’re not sure he’s going to be missed much.

There’s been an injection of talent both into central midfield and the attacking positions that the former Leicester man was used in. Given how much competition there is, and given we’ll be playing in the Champions League and not the Conference League, he’s unlikely to have played many minutes at all.

Still, he did what was asked of him and walks away with two trophies, while Chelsea got a year of solid minutes and now get their money back. Everton get a decent player who can improve them this year.

Everyone’s a winner.