Werder Bremen have suspended Naby Keita for the remainder of the season and imposed a “substantial” high quality after accusing him of strolling out of Sunday’s Bundesliga conflict with Bayer Leverkusen.
The 29-year-old former Liverpool midfielder didn’t function in a 5-0 defeat on the Bay Area, along with his membership claiming he had chosen “to not journey to the bottom with the staff and determined to go residence as an alternative” after discovering he was not within the beginning line-up.
A press release on the membership’s official web site mentioned: “Werder Bremen have suspended Naby Keita till the tip of the season. The membership have additionally handed the midfielder a considerable high quality.”
Guinea worldwide Keita, the assertion added, “will not prepare with the staff or be a part of the first-team dressing room.”
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Bremen’s head {of professional} soccer Clemens Fritz mentioned: “As a membership, we received’t tolerate Naby’s behaviour.
“He let his staff down in a time of problem surrounding our current run of type and squad availability and put his personal pursuits above these of the staff. We will’t enable that.
“At this stage of the season, we’d like full concentrate on the remaining video games and a staff who stick collectively. That’s why we’ve been left with no different.”
Leverkusen’s win clinched them the title and left Bremen sitting in twelfth place, simply 5 factors away from the underside three with as many video games remaining.
Keita, who had a spell in Germany with RB Leipzig earlier in his profession, joined the membership as a free agent on a three-year deal final summer time following the expiry of his contract at Anfield.
