THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2017 SPORTS Dortmund’s Schuerrle out Hartley tells Tuilagi, Newcastle sign Spanish for a month with injury Solomona to make amends striker Joselu from Stoke BERLIN: World Cup-winner Andre Schuerrle is set to miss the first four weeks of the LONDON: England captain Dylan Hartley has told Manu Tuilagi and LONDON: Rafael Benitez’s frustration at missing out on several transfer targets new season after tearing his thigh muscle, Borussia Dortmund confirmed yesterday. His Denny Solomona to prove they are worthy of a recall after being sent abated a little as Spanish striker Joselu yesterday agreed a move to Newcastle latest setback means Schuerrle will miss Dortmund’s trip to Wolfsburg on Saturday in home early from a pre-season training camp. Hartley said Leicester United from Stoke City. The 27-year-old, who scored just four times for Stoke in their opening league match of the new season. The 26-year-old has been dogged by centre Tuilagi and Sale wing Solomona “let us down” when they broke 27 appearances, cost Newcastle a reported £5 million (5.4m euros, $6.4m) and injury since joining Dortmund in July 2016 for 30 million euros ($35.2m) from signed a three year contract. “I feel very happy because I have Wolfsburg. He was signed to much fanfare but struggled for form last England’s code of conduct in an incident reported to have been alco- signed for a very big club,” he told the club website. “I’m very season, managing just two goals and three assists in 15 Bundesliga hol related. Tuilagi and Solomona were dismissed from training by games. The highlight was his equaliser in Borussia’s 2-2 draw with England coach Eddie Jones on August 7 and their Test careers are now happy to be part of this club, and so excited. I’m looking for- Real Madrid in the group stages of the Champions League. Last in jeopardy. But Hartley believes both players can still earn an interna- ward to getting to know my team-mates, the city, the train- Saturday, Schuerrle played in Dortmund’s 4-0 German Cup win at tional recall if they buckle down. “We’re a team and as a team we set ing ground, the stadium and all the supporters,” added minnows Rielasingen-Arlen, who play in the sixth tier of German foot- our own standards off the field. And ultimately those guys let us down Joselu, who spent last season on loan with Deportivo La ball, but his torn thigh means he is out until mid-September at the ear- in that area,” Hartley said. “We’re a team and we’ve got a code of con- Coruna. Joselu, who will compete with Dwight Gayle and liest. New signing Maximilian Philipp, who Dortmund bought from duct that we adhere to. “The team dealt with it and I’m sure those Aleksandar Mitrovic for a place up front, is Benitez’s sixth Freiburg for 20 million euros in July, looks set to replace Schuerrle, players will have their heads down and be working hard now to get summer signing but the former Liverpool manager has whose cross Mario Goetze converted to score the winning goal back in the picture. “It’s unfortunate for them, but you make decisions, expressed his frustration at missing out on other targets such for Germany in the 2014 World Cup final. —AFP you’ve got to live with those decisions.” —AFP as Arsenal’s misfiring Spaniard Lucas Perez. —AFP Leave Pettersen alone, US skipper urges fans CHICAGO: United States captain Juli deal,” Inkster said Tuesday. “It won’t be on Inkster on Tuesday urged fans not to heckle our side and not on her side. Europe star Suzann Pettersen at this week’s “I hope they (the fans) don’t heckle her, I Solheim Cup, two years after a bitter con- hope they respect her and respect her play. troversy involving the Norwegian player. It was two years ago and we’ve moved on. I Pettersen was at the centre of an acri- think she’s moved on as well.” monious spat at the 2015 edition of the Inkster however said the tournament Ryder Cup-style event when she refused to rules committee had instructed teams to give Alison Lee a short putt during a crucial designate one player in each pairing who foursomes game. had responsibility to concede putts in The Norwegian’s controversial move left order to avoid the sort of scenes that erupt- Lee in tears and stoked a furious backlash ed in 2015. from American players, who subsequently “I think the rules committee are going to overturned a 10-6 deficit heading into the do that. You’ve got to have one person in singles to claim victory. the group who’s in charge of giving putts. Pettersen initially insisted she had not And that way we don’t have any controver- done anything wrong but later issued an sy,” Inkster said. apology declaring that she was “gutted and Inkster, who was critical of Pettersen’s truly sad” about her actions. actions at the time, said she had spoken to “I am so sorry for not thinking about the the player in the immediate aftermath of bigger picture in the heat of the battle and the row and was confident the matter was competition,” said Pettersen, the current now closed. world number 23 who will be playing in her “I spoke with her on the Monday morn- ninth Solheim Cup this weekend. ing after the Sunday. We had a nice chat. I It remains to be seen whether galleries haven’t brought it up since and she hasn’t at Des Moines Golf and Country Club in either,” she said. Iowa will give Pettersen a pass for her 2015 “It’s over with, it’s done. Our team’s not actions. talking about it, I’m sure the European But US captain Inkster is among those team’s not talking about it, I’m not sure hoping the controversy of two years ago why we’re talking about it.” Opening four- will be forgotten. somes in the tournament get under way “I really don’t think it’s going to be a big tomorrow. —AFP CHARLOTTE: Rickie Fowler watches his tee shot on the third hole during the third round of the PGA Championship golf tourna- ment at the Quail Hollow Club, in Charlotte. —AP GOLF Fowler keeps celebrating everyone else’s majors CHARLOTTE: Rickie Fowler, golf’s version of an pared with his colleagues’, many of them had a long eagle putt on the final hole that action hero, keeps showing up too late to save younger, all of them in full stride. would have forced a playoff. himself at the majors. His final six holes at the Compared with his own standard, it was a Fowler should be too young to be consid- PGA Championship were nothing short of step to the side at best, but certainly not for- ered the best without a major except that four remarkable, the very reason why Fowler should ward. Three years ago, Fowler joined Jack players younger than him already have at least remain in the category of “when” and not “if” as it Nicklaus and Tiger Woods as the only players to one - Spieth, Thomas, Rory McIlroy and Brooks relates to winning a major. finish in the top 5 at all four majors (Spieth has Koepka. At worst, he has become a sentimental Seemingly out of contention, Fowler holed a since joined them). The difference is the other choice because of the growing number of 20-foot birdie putt on No. 12 (one of only four three all won a major in those years. chances and the gracious manner he treats birdies in the final round) and hit his tee shot on Fowler is still 28. He has played only 30 people. the 13th to 8 feet for another birdie. He drove majors as a pro. The talent is there, and so is the Maybe the time spent celebrating everyone the 14th green to 40 feet for a two-putt birdie, ability to deliver big moments. He showed that else’s majors will pay off. “You can learn so much then nearly holed a chip on the par-5 15th for a when he won The Players Championship in 2015 from watching your friends play well and get the fourth straight birdie. and the Scottish Open later that summer. job done,” Fowler said. “It’s fun to see. It also That whipped social media, along with practi- Phil Mickelson, now with five majors and motivates you to want to go out and push your- cally all of Quail Hollow, into a frenzy because three legs of the career Grand Slam, had a com- self to another level.” everyone loves Fowler and he loves them back. parable major championship record to Fowler at The old guard might question Fowler’s fire by But he ran out of holes. Fowler figured he would that age. In his first 30 majors as a pro, Mickelson his willingness to smile and celebrate majors he need two more birdies, and that nasty three- had three veritable chances to win. He was one wants for himself. That’s simply the way he was Tiger Woods hole stretch known as the “Green Mile” didn’t shot out of the lead at Shinnecock Hills in the brought up. “We always kept everything posi- give any player more than one in the final round. 1995 US Open, had the 36-hole lead at Valhalla tive,” his father once said.