BERLIN: Recalled Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer will miss his country’s friendly matches against France and the Netherlands due to injury, the German Football Association (DFB) said on Wednesday.
The 37-year-old tore a muscle in his left leg during training on Wednesday and had to leave the session in Frankfurt, the DFB wrote on X.
Neuer had been due to make his international return against France in Lyon on Saturday after being selected by coach Julian Nagelsmann for the first time in 15 months.
But he will now miss that match, as well as Germany’s clash with the Netherlands in Frankfurt next Tuesday.
The injury also casts doubt on the Bayern Munich captain’s participation in his club’s Champions League quarter-final first leg against Arsenal on April 9.
Neuer last played for Germany at the World Cup in Qatar in December 2022, breaking his leg shortly after and missing almost a year of football.
Bayern coach Thomas Tuchel last week praised the goalkeeper’s recall to the Germany squad, saying he was “in a league of his own.”
Tuchel told reporters “what the doctors said really shocked me” about Neuer’s injury, saying the goalkeeper’s return was “really unique... one in 20,000 — maybe one in 20 million.”
Germany boss Nagelsmann said no decision had been made on whether Neuer or Barcelona’s Marc-Andre ter Stegen would be the team’s number one ahead of the Euros which the country will host in June and July.
Neuer’s Germany comeback thwarted by injury
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Neuer’s Germany comeback thwarted by injury
- The 37-year-old tore a muscle in his left leg during training on Wednesday
- Neuer had been due to make his international return against France in Lyon on Saturday
Rooney says Salah ‘destroying his Liverpool legacy’
- The Egypt forward said on Saturday he felt like he had been ‘thrown under the bus’ by Liverpool
- He was left on the bench for the third consecutive game in a 3-3 draw at Leeds and not even introduced as a substitute
LONDON: Mohamed Salah is “absolutely destroying his Liverpool legacy” following an extraordinary outburst at manager Arne Slot, according to Wayne Rooney.
The Egypt forward said on Saturday he felt like he had been “thrown under the bus” by Liverpool and that he no longer had a relationship with Slot after he was left on the bench for the third consecutive game in a 3-3 draw at Leeds and not even introduced as a substitute.
After next weekend’s home match against Brighton, Salah is set to depart for the Africa Cup of Nations and hinted that could be his final appearance in a Liverpool shirt should he be selected.
Former Manchester United and England striker Rooney believes Slot must now demonstrate he is in charge at Anfield by leaving Salah out completely from Tuesday’s Champions League tie at Inter Milan.
“Arne Slot has to show his authority and pull him in and say ‘you are not traveling with the team, what you said is not acceptable’,” said Rooney in his latest BBC podcast.
“Take yourself off to AFCON (the Africa Cup of Nations) and let everything calm down. If I was him there would be no way he would be in the team.”
Rooney added: “He (Salah) is absolutely destroying his legacy at Liverpool. It would be sad for him to throw it all away. He’s gone about it all wrong.”
Salah is Liverpool’s third highest goalscorer of all time with 250 goals in 420 appearances for the club.
However, the 33-year-old has been a shadow of his former self during Liverpool’s struggles this season — the club are now ninth in the table — with a mere four goals in 13 Premier League appearances.
After the Leeds game, Salah told reporters: “I said many times before that I had a good relationship with the manager, and all of a sudden we don’t have any relationship.
“It seems like the club has thrown me under the bus. That is how I am feeling. I think it is very clear that someone wanted me to get all of the blame.”
