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Fifa has rejected the Football Association’s appeal to rubber-stamp midfielder Adrien Silva’s move to Leicester City from Sporting Lisbon.
Leicester submitted paperwork on Silva’s £22m switch 14 seconds too late on the 31 August transfer deadline.
Fifa withheld Silva’s International Transfer Certificate so the Foxes could not register him to play.
Leicester will now only be able to add Silva to their playing squad when the transfer window reopens in January.
Silva returned to Sporting’s Estadio Jose Alvalade on Sunday and wished his former club’s fans an emotional farewell before their 0-0 draw with rivals Porto.
He has been in the stands to watch Leicester play at King Power Stadium and has worked with fitness coaches at the club’s Belvoir Drive, but is barred from actually training alongside the Leicester squad.
He returned to Portugal last month to be with his family.
Leicester, who are 17th in the Premier League after just one win this season, sold Danny Drinkwater to Chelsea for £35m with Silva earmarked as his replacement.
Instead, Wilfred Ndidi, who signed ...
... from Genk last summer, has been paired with Andy King in the centre of midfield in recent matches.
Silva has been left out of Portugal’s squad for their final World Cup qualifiers against Andorra and Switzerland and Foxes coach Craig Shakespeare said last month that the tournament was “in the back of his mind”.
Gareth Bale ruled out of Wales World Cup qualifiers
Real Madrid forward Gareth Bale has been ruled out of Wales’ crucial World Cup qualifiers against Georgia and the Republic of Ireland with a calf strain.
Real manager ZinedineZidane had played down concerns about Bale’s fitness, saying he rested him for Sunday’s win over Espanyol as a precaution.
Bale joined the Wales squad on Monday and, despite sitting out training, it had been hoped he would be fit.
But the 28-year-old’s injury means he will not travel to Georgia.
His absence in Tbilisi on Friday and in Cardiff for the visit of the Republic of Ireland three days later is a huge blow to Welsh hopes of qualifying for a first World Cup since 1958.
Wales are second in Group D, trailing leaders Serbia by four points with two matches remaining.
Second place could be enough to earn Chris Coleman’s team a place in the play-offs, which will see eight of the nine runners-up in qualifying groups play for four remaining places in Russia 2018.
In order to secure a play-off place, Wales would realistically need at least four points from the games against Georgia and the Republic of Ireland.
Their chances of doing so will be harmed by the injury to Bale, who has scored four goals so far in this campaign.
The former Tottenham player has also been in fine form for Real, scoring a brilliant goal in last week’s 3-1 Champions League win over Borussia Dortmund before being forced off with the muscular problem which has sidelined him for this month’s qualifiers.
Bale was in Cardiff on Monday to receive his players’ player of the year award at the Football Association of Wales’ annual ceremony.
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