Cenk Tosun’s miserable spell as an Everton player will come to an end next year with Sabah reporting the £27 million misfit is likely to join former club Besiktas when his contract expires.
He just can’t catch a break, if you’ll excuse a bad pun.
19 months after suffering a cruciate ligament rupture that brought a sad end to an impressive start to life on loan at Crystal Palace, fortune appears to have deserted him again.
Tosun is currently sidelined with another long-term injury, one expected to keep him out of action until February.
As a result, a return to Besiktas in the winter window appears to have been cruelly kiboshed. The Super Lig giants would prefer to wait until July, by which time Tosun will be a free agent and, hopefully, back to full fitness.
Has Cenk Tosun played his last game for Everton?
The Toffees succeeded in trimming the fat from a flabby wage bill in the summer, cutting ties with the likes of Yannick Bolasie, Mo Besic, Bernard and £200,000-a-week Galactico-turned-Goodison Park misfit James Rodriguez.
Tosun, however, remains an unwanted drain on Everton’s resources, a £60,000-a-week centre-forward who, even if he was fit and ready to play, would be third choice at best behind Dominic Calvert-Lewin and Salomon Rondon in Rafa Benitez’s pecking order.
It’s believed Besiktas would be willing to offer Tosun, who has already spent two spells at the Istanbul giants, a return to the Vodafone Arena – but only when his contract expires in nine months’ time.
Tosun won a trio of Super Lig titles in Besiktas colours, scoring three goals in three games during a short-lived loan in the Turkish capital last season – one unfortunately cut short by a patella rupture he has yet to recover from.
There were claims at the time Everton were willing to offer Tosun as part of a player-plus-cash swap that would have seen Canada international Cyle Larin move in the other direction.
That latest injury soon put paid to those plans, however.
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