Former Arsenal defender, Emmanuel Eboue has been suspended from football-related activities for one year by the world football governing body, FIFA.
Consequently, his new club, Sunderland, have terminated his contract with them.
The Ivorian star got FIFA’s sledge hammer after failing to pay one of his representatives.
Sunderland disclosed in a statement that Eboue’s suspension was in relation to a “monetary dispute between the player and a former agent [Sébastien Boisseau], which precedes his time at Sunderland AFC and was not something that the club was made aware of by the player.”
The club further disclosed that the 32-year-old player “signed a contract with Sunderland AFC until the end of the current season and the club has therefore given notice of its intention to terminate the contract. The player has two weeks in which to appeal this decision.”
Eboue made a move to the Wearside club earlier in March and had not yet made his debut for the club.
He will serve the full suspension unless he pays the total outstanding amount owed to Boisseau.
The former Galatasaray full-back was fined £21,650 in September 2014 for failing to pay his former agent on time. Eboue failed to settle his debt in a 120-day grace period, after which Boisseau requested a one-year ban for his former client.
He appealed against the ban, enforced by FIFA’s disciplinary committee, to the Court of Arbitration for Sport but his appeal was dismissed.
