Ghana international Thomas Partey has said that the eight-match ban given to Diego Costa seems unfair. The Atletico Madrid striker was handed a straight-red card during the recent league defeat to Barcelona on the roadafter he was found bad-mouthing about the mother of referee Jesus Gil Manzano.
As such, La Liga sanctioned an eight-game suspension for the Spain international, but his teammate Thomas believes the punishment is unfair and Atletico should appeal against the decision, he said: “I just heard it, I think it's too much. I think it's too much, it isn't fair and I hope we talk to them and they lower their sanction, because of the circumstances. Everything depends on the occasion and everyone has their own ways of doing things, maybe he has not acted well here, but for me, there are too many games for him and for the whole team.”
Barcelona forward Kevin-Prince Boateng has said that he has no regrets over choosing Ghana over Germany at the international level. The 31-year-old started with the German side at the youth level but he thereafter switched his allegiance to the country of his father’s birth before the 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa.
Boateng’s international career has been shortlived, however, with him not featuring for the Black Stars since the suspension at the 2014 World Cup but he still has no regrets regarding the decision, he told Sky Italia: "I did some things when I was young, of course I'm not very proud of today. Although they are part of me, they were not very positive. In Germany there are many ‘straight’, very correct, and they did not much like my behaviour. So I saw the really long way to get into [Joachim] Löw's plans, so I said to myself. They want me in Ghana and I want to play for the National team. And in the end I made a very right
