SAINTS midfielder Sofiane Boufal is the latest player to be fined for speeding in the city.

The 24-year-old player, who was once the club’s record signing and is currently out on loan, was captured by a fixed camera on the A33 Redbridge Road on March 4 while driving a 66-reg Porsche at 46 mph in a 40mph zone.

Boufal whose address was given in court as the Saints training base at Staplewood, Long Lane, Marchwood, was fined £220 and ordered to pay a £30 victim surcharge and £85 costs.

Three penalty points were added to his driving licence by magistrates sitting in Aldershot. He was not present in court.

It is likely to be one of his last contacts with the Hampshire area as he is currently on loan at Spanish club Celta Vigo. He played 50 matches for Saints scoring just three goals, but is not believed to be in the plans of current manager Mark Hughes.

It is a distant cry from August 2016 when he signed a five-year contract for a club record fee reported to be £16 million.

He frustrated fans and management and failed to nail down a regular starting slot. Clearly highly talented, he could only show his skill in flashes, such as the brilliant solo goal he scored against West Bromwich Albion last October. He dribbled the ball from his own half to score what was later voted as the Premier League Goal of the Season.

Boufal’s court case comes after fellow Saints midfielder Mario Lemina was thumped with a huge fine of £96,000, before the conviction was set aside and the penalty reduced to £2,000 when a court error was revealed.

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Lemina, 25, of Avon Castle Drive, Ashley Heath, applied to reopen the case on three charges of failing to identify the driver of a vehicle believed to have committed an offence. The charges of speeding were dropped.

Whilst magistrates can impose a fine for speeding of up to one and a half times someone’s weekly wage they are unable to do so for a charge of failing to cooperate with police, even if relates to a speeding offence.

The court last week heard that Lemina, a Gabonese international, earns more than £32,000 a week.

It was unclear why Boufal, a Moroccan international, was only fined £220 and not up to one a half times his weekly wage.