£42.5m+ down the drain: Lampard must ruthlessly axe "desperate" £69k-p/w EFC liability - opinion

Everton flop Cenk Tosun is now unlikely to rejoin his former club Besiktas this summer.

That’s according to a report from Turkish outlet Sabah, via Liverpool Echo, which revealed that the Istanbul club have ‘cut off contact’ with the forward ahead of a potential move given his fitness issues.

Sabah reported in March (via One Football)  that Besiktas had offered the striker a three-year contract worth £1.3m a season ahead of the expiration of his Everton contract in June.

However, the 30-year-old is not set to return to full fitness until August at the earliest ahead of the expiry of his contract at the end of June.

It is imperative that the Toffees don’t offer Tosun a new contract and instead allow him to depart next month.

Having made the move to Goodison Park in 2018 for £27m, the £69k-per-week Turkish striker has cost the Merseyside outfit a whopping £42,594,000 in the 226 weeks since signing for the Toffees.

In that period, Tosun has made just 61 appearances for Everton, scoring 11 goals. To put that into perspective, each goal has cost the relegation-threatened side £3,872,182, making him a colossal waste of money.

Claimed to have been “desperate” to play for the Merseyside club according to former Everton manager Sam Allardyce, the forward has only made three appearances this season, with a combination of just 11 minutes played across the FA Cup and Premier League.

The 30-year-old has also endured two brief loan spells whilst struggling for game time at Goodison Park, making five appearances for Premier League rival Crystal Palace whilst also experiencing a return to his former club Besiktas.

These costs have already been damaging for Everton, but relegation to the Championship would make them detrimental.

Frank