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Cenk Tosun feels ready for fresh chance at Everton

Cenk Tosun feels ready for a fresh chance at Everton.

A loan spell with Crystal Palace earlier this year was prematurely curtailed by an anterior cruciate ligament injury but after undergoing surgery in March, the Turkish international insists he is indebted to Everton after being looked after "like a member of the family" during his rehabilitation.

He told the club's website: "It will be a really big opportunity for me. Dominic [Calvert-Lewin] and Richarlison are doing really well.

“But they are not robots, they can't play every game. I feel like a new transfer for Everton. All the things I have done wrong, I will not do them again.

“I am different now. I train and prepare better to help the team more.

“I have to be fit and, when I get the chance, I have to use that chance, to be there to score and help the team.

“That is how I am preparing for the next games.

“The international matches will help me. We have three games and I will have some minutes to get physically better.

“After seven or eight months of not playing, you are physically not as good.

“You can't get it back from only training, the matches are totally different.

“Step-by-step, I will get better and stronger."

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