Yves Bissouma nitrous oxide video: Tottenham suspend star midfielder

Tottenham midfielder Yves Bissouma nitrous oxide video that went viral on social media will see him miss the London club 2024/25 Premier League opener against Leicester.

Just hours after a pre-season friendly match against Bayern Munich, Bissouma posted a video of him inhaling a balloon believed to contain nitrous oxide – widely known as laughing gas. Nitrous oxide is a Class C drug known as laughing gas or NOS and the recreational use of which was made a criminal offence in the UK last year.

Spurs started an internal investigation and the midfielder has been handed a one-match suspension as a result of his misconduct.

“We’ve suspended him for Monday’s game,” Postecoglou explained.

“The door is open for him, and hopefully, we can help him to realise the decisions he makes impacts more than just him.

“Hopefully, it allows him to make better decisions moving forward.

“He has responsibilities,” the Australian added. “Responsibility to the club, his team-mates, to our supporters and everyone associated with the club – and he failed in those duties.

“There have got to be sanctions for that. He won’t be available for Monday, we have suspended him for Monday’s game.

“Beyond that there is also some trust building that needs to happen between Biss [Bissouma] and me, and Biss and the group. That’s what he needs to work hard at from now on to try and win that back and that has nothing to do with just one game.

“He may be suspended for one game but he is going to have to earn that. The door is open for him and hopefully we can help him to realise the decisions he makes impacts more than just him and hopefully allows him to make better decisions going forward.”

It is not clear whether a criminal investigation will be launched as a result.

“It’s not my area, mate, and I wouldn’t even bother having a discussion around that because that’s totally out of my control,” Postegoclou added.

Postecoglou made it clear he and the club would be making efforts to help Bissouma avoid getting himself into future strife.

“From hereo,n it is about trying to help him both as a person and as a footballer to make better decisions,” he said.

“There is a person involved, and in this cas,e it’s Biss and he has made a really poor decision. You want to understand that and try to help him through that and as a club what we can do to make sure he doesn’t make those kinds of choices and decisions in the future.

“Within that context, there are still sanctions that are involved and some of those sanctions include education and giving him a clearer understanding of why he did what he did and how wrong it was. Hopefully through that he comes out of it — you always want to give people the opportunity to learn from their mistakes.”

Bissouma joined Spurs from Brighton for £30 million in 2022.