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title: "Total Duds: Shani Tarashaj has been a waste of money for Everton"
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published: "2020-07-19T15:00:27Z"
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# Total Duds: Shani Tarashaj has been a waste of money for Everton

**This article forms part of our Total Duds feature series, which is where Football Transfer Tavern takes a look at how a player has fared since being signed or sold, using statistical figures and statements from pundits to prove how bad a deal the club got.**

No club can guarantee that each and every signing will work out, and Everton are no exception.

In more recent years, they have done some fantastic business in the transfer market – Richarlison and Dominic Calvert-Lewin, for example, are the club’s [two top goalscorers](https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/teams/everton/top-scorers) this term and have become important players for Carlo Ancelotti’s side, whilst Lucas Digne has become arguably the Toffees’ [most creative player](https://www.whoscored.com/Teams/31/Show/England-Everton) despite being a left-back.

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Some deals, though, just haven’t worked out, and that is certainly the case with Shani Tarashaj. The 25-year-old signed for the Toffees for [£3.6m](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/shani-tarashaj/profil/spieler/184381) in January 2016, but it is a deal that, so far, hasn’t really worked out for anyone. He impressed during the 2015/16 Swiss Super League campaign for Grasshoppers Zurich, scoring [11](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/shani-tarashaj/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/184381) goals in 33 matches, and Everton signed him halfway through that campaign and loaned him straight back to complete the term.

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However, that is as good as it has ever been for the five-time Switzerland international. He has actually never made an appearance for the Toffees, instead embarking on loan spells at Eintracht Frankfurt, Zurich again, as well as FC Emmen – across all of those clubs, he has scored on only three occasions.

When he was signed, his Transfermarkt value stood at [£3.6m](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/shani-tarashaj/marktwertverlauf/spieler/184381) – now, he is said to be worth just £270,000. Although the original fee was not huge, that is still a 94.9% drop – this was no doubt a mistake from the Goodison Park outfit.

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