July 28 – French defender Mamadou Sakho, who missed France’s Euro 2016 campaign after serving a 30-day suspension after a failed drugs test, is back in the news again for all the wrong reasons.
Sakho was banished from Liverpool’s pre-season tour of the Unites States after he was late for meetings on three separate occasions.
Manager Jurgen Klopp explained: “He missed the departure of the plane, he missed a session and then was late for a meal … I have to build a group here, I have to start anew, so I thought it maybe made sense that he flew home to Liverpool and after eight days, when we come back, we can talk about it.”
“We have some rules and we have to respect them. If somebody doesn’t respect it, or somebody gives me the feeling he is not respecting it, then I have to react, that’s all.”
Although Klopp insisted he had not fallen out with the player, he revealed he was disappointed with Sakho’s attitude at the training camp in Palo Alto and especially during a visit to the famous prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco,.
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