Blackburn Rovers forward and former Liverpool fans favourite El-Hadji Diouf has failed to turn up to pre-season training, with the club's staff reportedly hitting a brick wall in their attempts to contact the Senegal international.
Rangers' El Hadji Diouf jumps for the ball with Celtic's Daniel Mastrovic
GettyImagesEl-Hadji Dioufplayed the second half of last season on loan at Rangers
Diouf, 30, has never been far from the headlines since first arriving in English football nine years ago, and the temperamental attacker is attracting negative press again after apparently going AWOL.
Steve Kean's squad departed for seven-day training camp in Austria last week, but Diouf was not in attendance for the trip and also failed to turn up for the first session back in England on Wednesday.
Club officials have been trying to track him down without success, according to the Daily Telegraph, which quotes a Rovers' source as saying: "We can't find him. Nobody knows where he is."
Diouf spent the second half of last season on loan at Rangers after being reprimanded by the club for a public row with Neil Warnock, which saw the QPR boss label him a "sewer rat" amid claims he verbally abused Rs striker Jamie Mackie during an FA Cup clash in January.
Kean has already admitted that Diouf is not a part of his future plans at Ewood Park, but Rovers are yet to receive any concrete offers for him.
Rangers' El Hadji Diouf jumps for the ball with Celtic's Daniel Mastrovic
GettyImagesEl-Hadji Dioufplayed the second half of last season on loan at Rangers
Diouf, 30, has never been far from the headlines since first arriving in English football nine years ago, and the temperamental attacker is attracting negative press again after apparently going AWOL.
Steve Kean's squad departed for seven-day training camp in Austria last week, but Diouf was not in attendance for the trip and also failed to turn up for the first session back in England on Wednesday.
Club officials have been trying to track him down without success, according to the Daily Telegraph, which quotes a Rovers' source as saying: "We can't find him. Nobody knows where he is."
Diouf spent the second half of last season on loan at Rangers after being reprimanded by the club for a public row with Neil Warnock, which saw the QPR boss label him a "sewer rat" amid claims he verbally abused Rs striker Jamie Mackie during an FA Cup clash in January.
Kean has already admitted that Diouf is not a part of his future plans at Ewood Park, but Rovers are yet to receive any concrete offers for him.
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