Soccer: Liverpool closing door to Balotelli

(ANSA) - London, July 31 - Mario Balotelli's Liverpool adventure evidently is in its final stages after the club decided to bar the flamboyant Italian attacker from training with other team members, sources said Friday.
    Recent declarations by Brendan Rodgers held out hope for Balotelli to remain at Anfield but the latest decision is a clear message that there is no future for Balotelli at Liverpool.
    The former Milan player was excluded from the Reds' summer retreat in Australia and southeast Asia and now, just a week away from the start of the championship he has been segregated from his teammates just as Rodgers also has sidelined another Italian player, Fabio Borini.
    The two Italians together with Spanish player Jose Enrique are training at the Melwood sports centre, but following a different training routine with a different timetable to the first team.