Skint ex-Arsenal neatly-known particular person hides from bailiffs and sleeps on pal’s ground

Eleven years previously he turned into lining as much as snatch portion in the edifying club match in world soccer.

During an famed seven-year profession in the Premier League , he pocketed 1000’s and 1000’s of pounds in wages, lived in a mansion and drove flashy autos.

Now ex-Arsenal defender Emmanuel Eboue spends his days hiding from ­bailiffs, now and again sleeps on the ground of a pal’s house, travels by bus and even cleans his dresses by hand attributable to he has no washing machine.

As of late, the 34-year-extinct tells how his staggering riches-to-rags bother has pushed him to the brink of suicide.

“I want God to again me,” he says. “Handiest he can again clutch these thoughts from my thoughts.”

To grab stamp to Eboue open his heart is as harrowing as it’s gross.

He wants to discuss openly and honestly in a characterize to succor others going thru the identical ordeal to open up.

The Sunday Mirror, thru its Time To Alternate campaign, has been scuffling with for the previous six years to shatter the stigma associated to the psychological sick health with which Eboue is now suffering.

On the height of his profession with Arsenal he turned into a followers’ favourite. He turned into portion of the aspect that faced Barcelona in the 2006 Champions League final.

Arsenal lost but Eboue stays a cult-hero at the Emirates Stadium, as unparalleled for his cosy system and his purpose celebrations because the skill which saw him again the Ivory Waft attain the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations Final.

That joy, however, has been replaced by tears – and a deep terror of the future.

Eboue, currently unable to play soccer thanks to sick-health, says he has been pushed to the brink. He has:

• Misplaced a bitter divorce battle, with his wife Aurelie awarded all of their assets.
• Needed to camouflage from cops and bailiffs after being ordered by a judge to switch his final Enfield house to his wife.
• Faced a heartbreaking estrangement from his three kids, who he has not considered since June.
• Been grieving after the cancer loss of life of grandfather Amadou Bertin – who raised him – and the loss of his brother N’Dri Serge, killed in a motorcycle accident.

It is now three weeks since a slash-off date passed for Eboue to renounce possession of the North London house he aged to share with Aurelie.

A judge will trace the switch if Eboue would not invent so.

The player and his wife lived there in happier cases before Eboue sold a mansion – which Aurelie has now save accessible on the market.

He understands she’s going to rent out the Enfield property.

So Eboue, his assets in bags, now awaits the knock that can sight him ordered to creep away at any time.

The disturbed neatly-known particular person said: “I can’t respect ample cash the cash to proceed to respect any authorized knowledgeable or barrister.

« I am in the dwelling but I am disturbed. As a consequence of I don’t know what time the police will attain.

“In most cases I shut off the lights attributable to I don’t want individuals to know that I am inside. I save all the pieces in the again of the door.

« My own house. I suffered to buy my house but I am now disturbed.

“I am not going to sell my dresses or sell what I even respect. I will fight till the tip attributable to it’s not all the time honest.”

Eboue has taken a immense plunge from the times he netted 1000’s and 1000’s at Arsenal and then extra than £1.5million a year at Turkish aspect Galatasaray.

His dream of a Premier League return with Sunderland evaporated final year, however, after he turned into hit with a 12-month ban by FIFA after a dispute with a dilapidated agent.

Eboue says he turned into never given ­steering to tackle his price range.

Insisting his wife looked after most of their affairs, he admits being “naive” with cash.

He also claims he turned into beset by a string of those that gave noxious advice and lost him extensive sums.

With a little ­training, Eboue is paying the cost for being unaware of his monetary teach. His handful of visits to the bank had been with Aurelie.

Eboue even recollects an occasion when bank workers visited him – to trace bureaucracy – at Arsenal’s training ground.

And he now wants varied younger African footballers to learn from his mistakes.

He says: “I gape again and insist ­‘Emmanuel, you might maybe more than seemingly perchance additionally simply had been naive… why didn’t you suspect about that before?’ It is laborious.

« Very, very laborious. The cash I earned, I sent it to my wife for our younger individuals.

“In Turkey I earned eight million euros. I sent seven million again house. No subject she tells me to trace, I trace.

« She is my wife. The considerations with FIFA had been thanks to individuals advising me. Of us which might perchance additionally very successfully be supposed to care. But it absolutely turned into thanks to them FIFA banned me.”

Having surrendered the autos among assets transferred to his wife, Eboue now has an Oyster card and depends on London transport – while doing his most high quality to retain away from being recognised.

He splits his time between the Enfield house and the house of a ­confidante he calls his “sister” – Yasmin Razak.

He in general sleeps on a mattress on her lounge ground.

But even observing TV – and seeing the likes of dilapidated team-mate Thierry Henry as a soccer pundit – triggers unfavorable thoughts.

He provides: “After I sight Thierry I feel cosy for him but ashamed of my own teach.

« After I sight chums on TV that I played with or in opposition to I insist to myself ‘I could maybe more than seemingly additionally simply mute mute be there’. It’s laborious to behold them.”

Each and each Yasmin and one other end pal, ex-Portsmouth and Newcastle striker Lomana Lua Lua, had been well-known in serving to Eboue preserve afloat.

Of Yasmin, he said: “I name her house The Bunker. I can camouflage there. She has younger individuals. I don’t respect to disturb them, so I sleep on the ground.”

Eboue is devastated at spending Christmas other than his own kids, daughters Clara, 14, and Maeva, 12, and son Mathis, nine.

He goes on: “It hurts me loads. They aged to name me. But now, no contact. It pains me to be on my own with out them.”

Eboue has been left with out so unparalleled as a washing machine.

But he won’t be beaten, announcing: “Each day I wash my jeans, my dresses, all the pieces. My hands are laborious. As though I even had been engaged on a farm.

“I thank my grandmother attributable to she taught me to scrub, cook, desirable, all the pieces as a younger man.

“I proceed to thank God. I even respect my lifestyles. I didn’t want what has came about. I don’t wish it on any one.”

Whereas Eboue wants to return to playing sometime, he would leap at the prospect of working with dilapidated club Arsenal or gamers’ union the PFA.

He says: “I’d accept again from any place but if my previous club wants to again me then I’d be very, very cosy. Presumably I could maybe more than seemingly again the younger gamers?

“The PFA helped me after I had my considerations with my agent. Within the event that they gave me a job, even if it wasn’t a positive, positive job.

“Presumably I’d sight some of the individuals I played with or in opposition to and I’d feel embarrassed. But I’d cope.”