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2021/22 Jean-Philippe Gbamin

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Funnily enough both his sons are really talented.
Bogarde was a really good player in his day
Just fell out of favour and lost interest in football
If memory serves me right he flew in and out from Holland every day for training , mainly training on his own or with the youths
He stuck it out till his contract ran out
 

Police seized a £170,000 Lamborghini from Everton midfielder Abdoulaye Doucouré after he was caught driving the car through north London without insurance, a court heard.
The 28-year-old was detained at the roadside in Highgate for more than an hour before officers took away the car.
It was his second stop by Met officers in a month last summer. He was behind the wheel of an Audi when he was caught speeding at 102mph on June 6 (2020).

Doucouré was “shocked” when shown the speed gun reading, Bromley magistrates heard, suggesting he may have been confused because the speedometer on his French car is in km.

On July 2, he was then pulled over in his wife’s Lamborghini Urus in Dartmouth Park Hill when driving without insurance.

The footballer, who reportedly earns £120,000-a-week, admitted flouting the road rules on both occasions. “I requested the driver to provide proof of insurance,” Pc Sinead O’Sullivan told the court.

“The driver stated the vehicle belonged to their wife and the insurance certificate was at home. We remained on scene for over an hour to allow... for his wife to attend the scene to produce a certificate. Once the driver’s wife arrived, she stated she was unable to produce the insurance documents.”

The car was then seized by police, and Doucouré was charged with driving without valid insurance.
Describing the speeding offence, Pc Thomas Knight said he was stationed on a 50mph stretch of the A41 in Barnet when Doucouré came past at 102mph.

“I asked the driver what the speed limit was on the section of the A41 I had seen him, to which he replied he had not seen any signs,” the officer said in his statement.

“I informed him it was 50mph and to which he was recorded driving at 102mph. The driver was shocked and then replied he didn’t know, and stated he was driving a French car which would have displayed his speed in kmph, which would have been showing 164kmph.”

Doucouré pleaded guilty on February 2 to the charge of driving without insurance, being handed a £600 fine, £166 in court costs and fees, and six penalty points.

He faces the possibility of a driving ban when the case is sentenced on August 2.


Ah here we go, from just before we signed him.

I'd say driving at 102mph in London is more dangerous than what Gbamin did

And he got off with paying £766
Drink driving is a totally different offence,most of the population see it as a very serious crime in these more enlightened times. I'm more interested in the fact that a player of ours ( not one who committed an offence while with another club) who has hardly kicked a ball was getting drunk rather than concentrating his efforts on getting match fit. Image that rather than scraping along other vehicles he'd staggered and turned his ankle doing ligament damage that had ruled him out for this season too. You seem hellbent on defending the indefensible.
 

this latest report may be evidence of a mental health issue, a professional athlete who is struggling to cope with a horrendous run of injuries and his own 'fans' are looking at firing him off. Great support though lads.
A mental health issue that stops him booking a taxi,doubt we'll see him in a blue shirt again,unless he's made a miraculous recovery.
 

Are you serious? What should they have done? Taken it on the chin? If a drunk driver crashes into me, I am 100% calling the police. Drunk drivers have no place on the road, whether they are Everton players or Dave from down the club. They kill people. Victim blaming is utter bullshit. Give me some points mods, I don't give a [Poor language removed], people excusing drunk drivers is an utter nonsense.

I'm joking

Apparently, the person thought Gbamin looked intoxicated

I'm not giving the bloke any excuse, he was an idiot. Like a driver going at 102mph – Doucoure last year.
 
Drink driving is a totally different offence,most of the population see it as a very serious crime in these more enlightened times. I'm more interested in the fact that a player of ours ( not one who committed an offence while with another club) who has hardly kicked a ball was getting drunk rather than concentrating his efforts on getting match fit. Image that rather than scraping along other vehicles he'd staggered and turned his ankle doing ligament damage that had ruled him out for this season too. You seem hellbent on defending the indefensible.
It is a different offence but so is driving at 102mph in a built up area.

That second bold bit, is pure speculation that you are making.

I'm not defending the indefensible. I've pointed out that you can't just say 'TEAR UP HIS CONTRACT' etc about one player who's done something wrong but then ignore that we've got Doucoure who was caught speeding twice - and not just like 5mph over the limit, going over 100mph – because you like him.

They're both as bad as each other. My ex-gf's mum was killed by a speeding driver doing 80 in a 30. They weren't drunk, they were an idiot. They're both ridiculous things to do.
 
He's been training. Wasn't involved in the running at the end though or the intense game by the looks. More that he was the extra man in the passing drill. Possibly makes the squad for Saturday if the next two days go well, you'd think.
Strange move by the club yesterday. Reports out that he has been done drink driving, then he was front and centre for the first half of the training video they released.
 
Strange move by the club yesterday. Reports out that he has been done drink driving, then he was front and centre for the first half of the training video they released.

Maybe because from the club's perspective it has already been dealt with?

Despite the assertions on here, the club will have known about this for a while. Gbamin wasn't going in front of a jury, there was no guilty verdict to be made. He'd have already previously entered the guilty plea.

Gbamin has been in squads and played matches since this happened.
 
It's an indefensible action and I hate drink driving. But we have a justice system that has punished him after getting all the facts (which we don't have).

Anything further becomes excessive in line with the way our society is set up otherwise it becomes a witch hunt and we may as well do away with the courts and judges etc. (If he drove for a living etc then yes, losing his job may be understandable as it would likely be in his contract then).

Once punishment is handed out, you have to move on and hopefully he has learned from it.
 

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