Sam Allardyce is hoping a warm-weather training break this week will better prepare Everton's new signing Cenk Tosun for the rigours of the English game following his £27m move to Merseyside club in January.

Tosun arrived from Turkish club Besiktas with a strong reputation as a clinical goalscorer but in the five Everton matches since he joined, he has started just the first two, he was an unused substitute on Saturday and he has a combined total of just 196 minutes of first-team action under his belt in the last two months.

Everton fly out to Dubai on Wednesday and although Allardyce believes Tosun was fit enough for the Turkish Super Lig, he admitted the 26-year-old has plenty of work to do in the Middle East.

"He is struggling with the pace of the Premier League which happens to more players than it doesn’t who come in in January," Allardyce said.