Cenk Tosun is set to leave Premier League giants Everton in the summer transfer window and will take a pay cut in order to re-join Besiktas, as reported by Sabah.
What is it they say about ‘never going back’?
It seems that message hasn’t reached Tosun as Everton’s £27 million forgotten man weighs up the prospect of a third spell at a club where he’s played by far and away the best football of his career.
Tosun, in two previous stints in Besiktas colours, lifted a trio of Super Lig titles. What’s more, he also scored 67 goals in just 146 games.
It’s easy to forget, given how far his reputation has plummeted at Goodison Park, that Tosun found the net four times in just six Champions League games for Besiktas during the first half of the 2017/18 season.
Everton’s decision to spend nearly £30 million on Tosun might have aged about as well as a carton of Cravendale in the Istanbul sun. But, at the time, the former Eintracht Frankfurt man was one of Europe’s most coveted centre-forwards for a reason.
Will Cenk Tosun ever play for Everton again?
Tosun’s contract expires at the end of this season.
“We’ll talk when the contract is up,” Cebi says. “If he wants to play in Istanbul, we will embrace him. We want him to come back again.”
According to Sabah, Tosun would be willing to accept a deal worth around £30,000-a-week at the Vodafone Park. That is £20,000 less than the wage he currently earns at Everton.
“My contract ends at the end of the season,” Tosun admitted recently.
“Besiktas is my home. I want to finish this season here (at Everton) and go somewhere at the end of the season.”
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