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Liverpool face Italy compo row over Borini injury

Liverpool may seek compo from the Italian Federation over Fabio Borini's injury.

The Daily Mail says Liverpool could be set for a compensation wrangle with the Italian FA after it emerged Borini reported for international duty already carrying an injury.

The Italian striker fractured the scaphoid bone in his right foot during a training session with his country's Under-21s on Thursday, an injury which will lead him to be absent for a number of weeks. The Italians discovered when they sent him for x-rays that he already had a crack in his ankle from a problem he sustained against Manchester United last month.

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