Everton and Jean-Philippe Gbamin have negotiated the termination of the Ivorian's contract, freeing him to join a new club after a nightmare spell with the Blues.
A hugely promising £23m signing from Mainz four years ago, Gbamin suffered a serious quad muscle tear just a week after making his Everton debut and managed just three senior starts in his entire time at Goodison Park thanks to a succession of injury issues.
His recovery from his first injury was set back by a ruptured Achilles in the spring of 2020 and sporadic soft-tissue complaints after that ensured that he would play only eight times for the club.
Loan spells at CSKA Moscow and Trabsonspor followed and by the time he entered the final year of his Everton contract, he was recovering from yet another injury but had vowed not to return to Merseyside.
Instead, he remained in Paris while he recuperated and when neither a loan nor permanent move came to fruition this summer, it was agreed by both parties to simply rip up his contract to make him a free agent.
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2 Posted 02/09/2023 at 00:31:18
I'm surprised he didn't play more often for us, but he must have been terrible not to get into our team.
Good luck to him, hope he gets to enjoy playing football somewhere.
Hope it's not cost us to release him. I always wonder if he's insured who pays his salary and could we claim compensation?
3 Posted 02/09/2023 at 01:19:33
We had this guy, Delph and Bolasie who were all crocks no sooner we bought them.
4 Posted 02/09/2023 at 01:57:19
So long, we hardly knew ya.
5 Posted 02/09/2023 at 04:44:40
6 Posted 02/09/2023 at 05:24:03
7 Posted 02/09/2023 at 07:03:32
We can't make these mistakes again. Lesson has to be learned.
8 Posted 02/09/2023 at 07:09:55
9 Posted 02/09/2023 at 07:19:51
Being Everton, a large sum of money will have been involved – and it won't have been Gbamin paying us.
10 Posted 02/09/2023 at 07:35:19
11 Posted 02/09/2023 at 08:10:52
12 Posted 02/09/2023 at 09:20:00
13 Posted 02/09/2023 at 09:40:54
N. B, “If I knew you were coming I'd have baked a cake†was the name of a big hit song in the 1940's.
14 Posted 02/09/2023 at 09:57:10
Scrounger.
Shafted Moshiri. 😀😀
15 Posted 02/09/2023 at 10:09:13
Ineffective football.
A mixture of bad luck and plain poor recruitment has plagued us. Most of these players were not the same after their respective injuries; including wages...
Gbamin, poor, injured, £40M spunked.
Gomes, poor injured £50M spunked.
Bolaise: poor, injured £40M+ spunked.
Tosun, poor, injured £40M spunked,
Mina, good, injured, £45M spunked,
Schneiderlin: waste of space £40M spunked,
Alli, injured, loss of form, £15M wages spunked,
[I've probably missed one or two.]
Some subsidised loans will have recouped a few quid but that's hundreds of millions of spunking with a total return of absolutely zero.
So, in the context of the window, the five players we have acquired look like shrewd signings. On the sale side for a player is entering the last year of his contract, extend it or he's better sold than walking on a free.
We are starting to operate like a better run business from a very, very lowly starting point. The totally shambolic way (to the point of existential threat) the club has been run financially over many years under Moshiri's and Kenwright's watch is dictating it.
16 Posted 02/09/2023 at 12:02:50
17 Posted 02/09/2023 at 12:17:48
An absolute disaster brought in by an overpaid DoF that was no better at choosing players than the average fan.
Even funnier that he thinks he is actually good at football. He is an athlete and nothing more.
18 Posted 02/09/2023 at 12:56:41
19 Posted 02/09/2023 at 14:39:37
That's highly unlikely, IMHO. But any penny saved on him is a good penny.
So let's put this sad saga into the club's Pandora Box and never re-visit it again.
20 Posted 02/09/2023 at 17:55:22
21 Posted 02/09/2023 at 22:02:40
He should be ashamed of his career and his service to EFC. He should donate half his contract wages to charity, and then still struggle to sleep at night... parasite.
22 Posted 02/09/2023 at 22:35:46
23 Posted 02/09/2023 at 23:31:00
24 Posted 03/09/2023 at 00:04:55
On the ladder of success,
Take one step and miss the whole first rung.
Gbamin would break an ankle on the mis-step. I'd wish him better luck but don't really care either way, bye bye.
25 Posted 03/09/2023 at 15:10:33
26 Posted 04/09/2023 at 11:24:42
MacArthur Park
Song by Donna Summer.
No wonder we are in this mess with signings like JPG.
27 Posted 04/09/2023 at 12:31:52
Silva was forced to play him when he first arrived, due to injuries and lack of depth, despite him not being match fit. Then he gets the thigh injury and the rest is history.
Shambles of a club.
28 Posted 05/09/2023 at 06:43:04
Not the only ones to buy failures but at least we have won the title 4 times since their last win in 1961.
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