The football press is full of stories about player power and the terrible way that the players hold their clubs to ransom. Sometimes, however, there are the occasional stories where you feel that a club has treated one of its players pretty badly.

Take the case of Liverpool’s former captain Sami Hyypia. He has been left out of the twenty-five man squad named by Rafa Benitez for this season’s Champions League adventure which starts in Marseille next week. New Uefa regulations say that all squads must have at least eight home-grown players in them and Hyypia is one of the overseas players at Anfield to miss out.

Hyypia told the Liverpool Echo that he was disappointed by the decision and by the timing of the announcement;