9 Players Who Flourished After Leaving Everton

8. Shkrodan Mustafi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3XuK3kG0bM Shkrodan Mustafi could well possibly turn out to be one of those players that got away for Everton. After joining the club in May 2009, turning down moves to Manchester City and Newcastle United in the process, he was initially signed to the academy team and later declared €œGoodison Park felt like home€. He would make his debut for the club in December that year, replacing Tony Hibbert in the 75th minute of a 1-0 home loss to BATE Borisov in that season€™s Europe League. He appeared on the bench a further nine times in the next two campaigns but never gained any more game time. By 2012 he had joined Serie B side U.C Sampdoria in an attempt to get his career back on track, breaking into the Germany national team as a result. That led him to this summer€™s World Cup in Brazil. Originally left out of Joachim Low€™s squad for the tournament, he was a surprise call up to replace Marco Reus when he was ruled out of the summer spectacle through injury. He would make two substitute appearances and one start for the Germans in their successful campaign, returning from South America as a World Cup winner and an ‚8 million move to Valencia soon followed in August this year. His future now looks bright after it appeared it had run aground in England, with Everton left ruing his sale and wondering what could have been had he featured more often in the famous Royal Blue.