If asked to name the great forwards at Everton down the years, it’s unlikely anyone will offer up the name Shani Tarashaj.
Signed from Grasshoppers as a youngster in January 2016, the Switzerland striker would make just two appearances for Everton, both of them in the Under 21s.
He spent four years at Goodison Park before departing on a free transfer in 2020 but would spend most of that time out on loan with the likes of Grasshoppers, Eintracht Frankfurt and FC Emmen to little success.
And, just two years after his departure, has now decided to call it a day and hang up his boots full time.
20 Minuten cover the striker’s announcement today, detailing the end of a career that had started ‘promisingly’, with Tarashaj considered one of Switzerland’s ‘greatest talents’ at one point.
Indeed the now 27-year-old was considered a ‘wonder-kid’ and it was because of that Everton paid up to sign him, but he was ‘unable to assert himself’ on Merseyside or anywhere else he went.
Injuries also played their part and after leaving Everton he tried to revive things at FC Zurich but the body ‘no longer cooperated’ and now it’s over, just two years after leaving Goodison and the Premier League behind.
