Yannick Bolasie appears to confirm his Everton career is over

Yannick Bolasie has all but confirmed his permanent departure from Everton following a heartfelt message on Instagram to the club and their fans.

The 31-year-old sealed a loan move to Middlesbrough yesterday as he reunited with manager Neil Warnock, with whom he also worked at Crystal Palace.

Bolasie made the switch to Merseyside from south London for an initial £25m in 2016, but Everton now have left behind an expensive disappointment. Evertonians never saw the best of him in a Toffees shirt, with the DR Congo international managing just two goals in 32 appearances for the Toffees.

Now into the last six months of his Everton contract, it looks clear that the club are prepared to cut their losses and let Bolasie leave as a free agent in the summer.

In the meantime, they have offloaded a portion of his wages to ‘Boro in a move which shaves a modicum of funds off the club’s wage bill. However, the most telling evidence to confirm this approach from Everton came in a short statement posted by Bolasie on Instagram.

In a post titled ‘My last goodbye’, Bolasie was anything but cryptic in signalling that his Everton career is over – despite technically still being their player. Accompanied with a reflective highlights reel, his caption read:

All I can say is thank you all for the support I have been given through the good times and the bad, I’ve tried to make the city my own and be around the people, You will always be in my heart