Over six years on from his arrival at Goodison Park, Shani Tarashaj remains an enigma to Evertonians after announcing his retirement from football at the age of just 27.
Sport Witness cite 20 Minuten back in Tarashaj’s Swiss homeland as reporting that the forward has decided to hang up his boots and while his career had started “promisingly” and he was considered one of his country’s “greatest talents” at one point, the former wonderkid was “unable to assert himself” on Merseyside or anywhere else he went and two years after officially departing the Premier League, he conceded that his body “no longer co-operated.”
Everton originally signed Tarashaj on a four-and-a-half-year contract for a £3million fee on January 7, 2016, although he was loaned back to his previous club Grasshoppers of Zurich for the remainder of the season. Typically, then-Blues boss Roberto Martinez, the man who would splash out a further £13.5million on Oumar Niasse less than a month later, was full of hyperbole about his recruit.
