Crystal Palace could be set to bank a seven-figure sum from UEFA if England go far at the Euros this summer.
Attacker Eberechi Eze, defender Marc Guehi and goalkeeper Dean Henderson have received their third, tenth and second call-ups respectively.
Gifted playmaker Adam Wharton meanwhile, who signed for Palace from Blackburn Rovers for £18m this January, is one of four uncapped players to have been named in Gareth Southgate’s provisional squad.
The 33-man shortlist will ultimately be trimmed down to 26 ahead of England’s arrival in Germany in just under a month’s time.
Palace supporters will hope that their players make the cut, especially given the compensation scheme in place for clubs whose stars are at the tournament.
How much will Palace earn from Eze, Guehi, Henderson and Wharton’s inclusion in Euro squad?
UEFA first struck a deal with the European Club Association in 2008 to set aside a pot of cash to be distributed to clubs according to how many and for how long their players appeared in the in the Euros.
The total figure soared from around £27m to in excess of £128m at Euro 2016, with clubs given a set amount for every day their players are at the tournament.
That daily figure stood at £7,424, which in isolation does not sound like much in a football landscape accustomed to dealing in millions rather than thousands.
But if England go all the way in the tournament, as the bookmakers think they have every chance of doing, those fees will be worth almost £900,000 to Palace.
In fact, the true figure will be even higher as UEFA has now switched to a system which gives clubs an eight per cent cut of broadcast, commercial and ticketing revenue generated at the Euros.
While the final figures are not known, that overall pot will be worth £170m, with the per player, per day scaled up accordingly. This could likely push Palace’s total take-home closer to £1.5m
That is, of course, subject to Wharton, Eze, Henderson and Guehi being included in Southgate’s final squad.
How much will the players themselves receive?
England players receive a nominal fee of around £2,000 per appearance from the FA, so the maximum total the four Palace stars could earn from Euro 2024 is £14,000 each.
However, England players have been donating their earnings from international duty to the England Football Foundation, who in turn distribute the cash to a range of charities.
Will the extra cash help Palace’s FFP situation?
As it stands, Oliver Glasner’s Palace are one of the better-placed teams in terms of their headroom under financial fair play (now called Profit and Sustainability Rules, or PSR).
However, with a squad cost control ratio and financial anchoring system set to be introduced over the summer, they need to tread carefully, as do every other Premier League team.
Some estimations have found that Palace are somewhere between £15m and £18m over budget in terms of FFP, depending on the specifics of the soon-to-be introduced PSR system.
Although the numbers from the compensations scheme won’t move the dial that much, Palace will welcome what is effectively passive income from their players appearing at Euro 2024.