MADRID: Atletico Madrid striker Fernando Torres will miss his side’s top of the table clash with Barcelona on Saturday (Sunday in Manila) because of an ankle injury and faces an uncertain future at his boyhood club.

Torres’s loan deal from AC Milan expires at the end of the season, but Atletico have been hit with a one-year ban on registering new players from February by FIFA.

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