Everton: Where is Shani Tarashaj now?

Everton have made quite a lot of weird switch offers in latest occasions, though arguably one of the vital head-scratching was the addition of promising Switzerland worldwide Shani Tarashaj, with the playmaker having merely not been given an opportunity to impress throughout his four-and-a-half-year keep at Goodison Park.

The Toffees had moved to signal the 5 foot 9 menace from Grasshoppers again in January 2016, securing the signing for a reported charge of round £3m, earlier than loaning the then-youngster again to his former membership till the top of the season with a purpose to full his nationwide service.

Talking on the time, Roberto Martinez had waxed lyrical in regards to the high quality of the Merseysiders’ new addition, describing the ahead as an “huge younger expertise” and tipping him to have a “nice future” within the sport.

There was little question pleasure on the membership because the proficient ace ended that 2015/16 season with 12 targets and 4 assists in all competitions for the Zurich outfit, having additionally been chosen as a part of Switzerland’s squad for Euro 2016, albeit whereas making only a solitary substitute look within the competitors.

Regardless of that apparent promise, the participant’s possibilities of making an affect upon his eventual transfer to England had been immediately inhibited by the sacking of the aforementioned Martinez, with the Spaniard’s successor Ronald Koeman seemingly not taking a liking to the brand new arrival.

The previous wonderkid would go on to spend a lot of the following few seasons out on mortgage having been unable to drive his approach into the first-team plans with the Premier League aspect, joining Eintracht Frankfurt in 2016, earlier than a later stint again in his homeland with former membership Grasshoppers, in addition to with Dutch aspect FC Emmen.

The five-cap ace was in the end released by the Goodison outfit in the summertime of 2020 with a 12 months nonetheless to run on his present deal – having seen his time within the Netherlands delivered to a untimely finish – leaving the membership after failing to ever make a senior look regardless of his prolonged keep in English soccer, along with his solely outings coming for the membership’s U21 aspect.

After a stint with no membership, Tarashaj was snapped up by FC Zurich in January 2021, though after scoring once in simply 12 video games he has since called time on his profession, doing so earlier this month on the age of simply 27 having been cruelly hampered by harm of late.

That’s little question a tragic finish to a profession that had began so brightly, with it one thing of a disgrace that he was by no means afforded the chance to shine throughout his nameless stint with Everton.