Besiktas are looking increasingly unlikely to make Cenk Tosun’s move from Everton a permanent one in the summer.
That’s what Fotomaç hint at today, stating that the Turkish club are already eyeing up a different striker to bolster their forward line next season.
Tosun has been on loan with the Super Lig side since the January transfer window, having returned to his former club at the end of the month after falling out of favour under Carlo Ancelotti.
He made a flying start to his return to Turkish football, scoring two goals in his first game back against Genclerbirligi Ankara.
That 3-0 win came on the 15th of February, and the 29-year-old has been missing since forced to watch from the sidelines with an edema in his knee.
He returned to the bench for the draw with Fenerbahçe last month but sat out the recent defeat to Kasimpasa with Coronavirus.
That latest absence seems to have decided his fate, with Fotomaç reporting that the club’s hierarchy are disappointed they couldn’t get the ‘efficiency they wanted’ from the Everton man.
As a result, they have turned their attention elsewhere and ‘found the name they were looking for’ in Dinamo Kiev’s Gerson Rodrigues.
Indeed, they have already ‘started contacts’ with the striker about a possible return to Turkey, where he spent last season with MKE Ankaragücü.
That would suggest Besiktas are not interested in turning Tosun’s loan from Everton into a permanent one, which will come as a major disappointment to the Toffees, given they want rid of the striker.
Tosun, of course, has every chance of turning that around before the end of the season but it appears he will return to Goodison Park once his loan deal comes to an end.
