With the fallout continuing from Everton’s poor defeat to West Ham United at the weekend, Turkish international striker Cenk Tosun was one of a few players to come in for criticism following his individual showing.
Frustration and disappointment around the 27-year-old former Besiktas man has been growing in the season of 2018/19 as he is yet to find the back of the net and the misses have begun to stand out for some and West Ham took his barren spell to six games this year.
Having covered those who have lost faith with him, and Andy Gray’s words about his willing work rate but the goal return itself not being where it should be given the clubs’ presumed aims for the future and the top six, it’s only fair for balance to cover the thoughts of those fans who feel he’s simply struggling with confidence, and once he gets off the mark and gets a couple of goals under his belt, that’ll kick on properly.
Ultimately, it’s down to him to show that as he continues to have plenty of support and he is getting in the right places and chances are coming, he just needs to proverbial ‘in off someone’s backside’ to go his way.
Then we can judge his future properly, as arguably 20 matches, five goals, in the English top-flight isn’t really enough to judge despite the ‘now’ nature of the game.