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“He is a top player” – Clueless pundit backs Ancelotti to “get the best” from 921.5 mins per goal flop

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Former England goalkeeper Paul Robinson has shown himself up as a pundit by backing Carlo Ancelotti to reignite Yannick Bolasie’s Everton career.

Ancelotti is yet to get hands-on with the DR Congo international having taken charge at Goodison Park four months after Bolasie had been cast off into the wilderness by Marco Silva on a one-season loan deal with Sporting CP.

The Liga NOS outfit’s deal includes an option to keep Bolasie at the Jose Alvalade Stadium permanently this summer for a reported €4million (£3.5m), though claims in Portugal have suggested that the Leoes are not planning on taking up the clause.

Sporting boss Ruben Amorim is not expected to offer Bolasie many more chances on the field, should the season resume, either, with the 30-year-old at the ‘end of the line’ in Lisbon and set to head back to Merseyside when his terms expire.

Robinson would not seem to feel that would be a negative, though, as he expects Ancelotti will give the winger a chance to salvage the final years of his career in the Premier League and keep him at Goodison Park next season.

“Absolutely,” Robinson told Football Insider when asked if Bolasie can reignite his Toffees career. “When Ancelotti came in there was no recall but it must have been a season-long loan.

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“But the way that Ancelotti has behaved with the rest of his players – not signing anybody in January and giving everybody their chance – I think he will see Bolasie as a new signing. Ancelotti has given the other players until the end of the season [to impress], so I suspect Bolasie will get until Christmas, if not longer, if he performs.

“He is a top player. You saw the way he was at Palace. I do think a manager like Ancelotti can get the best out of Bolasie because sometimes talent is different from attitude and application. He was held in as high regard as [Wilfried] Zaha whilst at Palace – top player.”

Like Sporting are believed to have done, Ancelotti must decide that Bolasie is not worth his £75,000-per-week contract and entrust Director of Football Marcel Brands to find someone, anyone, willing to sign the 38-cap forward permanently.

This summer is our last chance at securing a somewhat sizable fee for Bolasie with his lucrative terms due to expire in 2021, and his market value will only continue to slip further away from the £25m we paid Crystal Palace in 2016 if he is kept at Goodison Park beyond the next window.

Where will Yannick Bolasie be next season?

At Everton

At Everton

Out on loan

Out on loan

Sold

Sold

Bolasie has done nothing in Portugal to suggest he would be more deserving of another chance in 2020/21 than he was last summer, when he returned from a half-season loan with RSC Anderlecht having scored six times in 17 games across all competitions.

He has only found the back of the net twice for Sporting in all competitions to date, too, for a goal contribution of one every 921.5 minutes having only amassed 1,843 minutes of action.

Only 90 of his minutes on the field have come since the end of January, as well, with Bolasie later omitted from four matchday squads, left on the bench once and suspended for one game before the season was postponed.

Bolasie does not deserve another chance at Goodison Park, and Robinson is clueless in suggesting otherwise.

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  • John Brooks says:

    For a football pundit Robinson makes excellent comments about ice hockey. Bolasie has done nothing with his career since his injury the first season we had him. He has shown no get up and go and his goal record is abysmal. He is an Everton player in name only. The only position he could hold at Everton would be to hand the guys the bottles as they left the pitch. Bye bye this summer, hopefully, making room for a player that can wear the shirt and make it mean something.

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