By Wayne Veysey

4th Sep, 2023 | 10:38am

Revealed: Everton pay 'high seven-figure' sum to get rid of Gbamin

Everton have paid a high seven-figure sum to terminate the contract of Jean-Phillipe Gbamin, sources have told Football Insider.

It was announced on deadline day last Friday by the Merseysiders that the club had agreed with the midfielder to terminate his contract with immediate effect.

Gbamin, 27, had entered the final year of his contract at Everton, which ran until June 2024.

The club had tried to sell him in the summer window but were unable to do so despite a cut-price asking fee of £5million.

Everton eventually decided to cut their losses by paying off a big chunk of Gbamin’s contract, which was worth more than £100,000-a-week.

It is believed that the final cost was, as one source said, a “high seven-figure sum”.

Gbamin spent four years on the books at Goodison Park, after arriving from German outfit Mainz for £25million in August 2019.

In total, he made just eight appearances for Everton during his time at the club, which included spells on loan at CSKA Moscow and Trabzonspor.

His Everton career was thrown off the rails by multiple serious injury issues: first missing 229 games with a hamstring injury he sustained not long after he arrived at the club in August 2019.

His next senior injury came in May 2020, not quite a full year on, as he ruptured his achilles tendon which ruled him out for a further 309 days.

Gbamin is now available on the market as free agent, and can move without a fee being paid.

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