Oumar Niasse is set to leave Everton when his contract expires next week according to the Liverpool Echo, with reports suggesting that Galatasaray could be his destination.
With ‘project re-start’ finally underway, each and every Premier League club will submit a 20-man-strong matchday squad between now and the end of the season – with five substitutes allowed instead of the usual three.
So the fact that Niasse was left out altogether during Sunday’s Merseyside derby snooze-a-thon against Liverpool doesn’t bode well for his chances of being handed a new contract at Goodison Park.
The £13 million misfit has played just 19 minutes of football since Carlo Ancelotti took over in December.
And, according to the Echo, Niasse’s tumultuous Everton career will be over on June 30 when he walks away from the club who plucked him from relative obscurity four years ago.
Though, with 22-time Turkish league champions Galatasaray the favourites to secure his signature (A Spor), there is an exciting fresh start awaiting a man signed by Roberto Martinez, ignored by Ronald Koeman and, soon enough, released by Carlo Ancelotti.
Niasse could find himself competing for a place in the starting XI with the legendary Radamel Falcao in Istanbul, while joining a squad chock-full of former Premier League flops from Jean Michel Seri to Florin Andone, Henry Onyekuru to Sofiane Feghouli.
He should feel right at home, then, at a club who have wanted him for years.
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