Plenty of Everton fans have wished striker Cenk Tosun well after he was loaned out by the club for the remainder of the season, as confirmed by the club’s official website evertonfc.com and tweeted by @Everton.
↩️ | "I spoke with @CenkTosun_ and he wanted to find a club with opportunities to play. I hope @CPFC is a good solution for him." – @MrAncelotti. #EFC 🔵
— Everton (@Everton) January 10, 2020
The Turkey international will spend the rest of 2019/20 on loan at Crystal Palace after struggling for game-time in recent weeks, with only one appearance for the Toffees since Carlo Ancelotti was appointed as the club’s manager last month.
Tosun had started just two league games for Everton this season and managed just one Premier League goal, with a less than prolific record of 10 goals in 51 matches for the club since his £27m arrival from Besiktas two years ago (as per BBC). He had faced criticism from the likes of Charlie Nicholas during his time at Goodison Park, with the Sky Sports pundit saying that he didn’t “offer anything” up front (as per Birmingham Live), and also came under fire from some Toffees fans at times.
However, following the completion of his loan to Crystal Palace, these Everton fans took to Twitter to send their best wishes to the 28-year-old, with some feeling that he was mismanaged under Ancelotti’s predecessor Marco Silva:
Good luck Cenk always gave us 100%
— ⚽ toffeeboy ⚽ (@ianspeny) January 10, 2020
The only striker we have who knew where the goal was. Would have done well in a 4-4-2. But his Everton career was destroyed by bad management and tactics
— Liam Tomlinson (@Liam_Tommo) January 10, 2020
When you buy a striker, you need to play to his strengths, Cenk never got that or enough game time to show what he can do, good luck Cent from the fans
— Jimboblues (@Jimboblues1) January 10, 2020
Good luck Cent, pity it didn’t work out. Hope you get playing time and prove to everyone you can score goals in prem not just for Turkey.
— longy24 (@longy0601) January 10, 2020
Best of luck to him. Hopefully he can find some form there if he gets more game time
— Stewart G Morris (@s17morris) January 10, 2020
He hasn’t had game time so his confidence is going nowhere, he’s never said he wants to go to my knowledge, best of luck to him I say
— dessa (@dessa20091764) January 10, 2020
Do you think Everton were right to loan out Tosun or should they have held onto him until at least the end of the season? Join in the discussion by commenting below!
