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Adrian Mutu has rubbished reports he was denied an visa at the Indian embassy in Bucharest after arriving to the appointment drunk.
The 35 year-old former Chelsea striker, who in 2004 admitted playing for the Blues with cocaine in his system, signed for FC Pune City in September but will miss the club's opening match after failing to secure the document required to enter the country.
According to Gazzetta dello Sport, the Romanian forward was 'visibly drunk' and was asked by staff to return later to finalise the paperwork.
But Mutu has hit out at suggestions he was under the influence of alcohol.
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Accompanied by a picture of his visa, which dates back to Friday, he tweeted: "I do not understand !! As a newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport write a little lie like that without verifying the information."
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">non capisco !! un giornale come gazzetta dello sport po scrivere una bugia del genere senza verificare l'informazione <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://www.awin1.com/awclick.php?mid=9&id=222025&p=http://t.co/GqE7pqkZ0E" class="body-link" data-vars-item-name="BL-162886-http://t.co/GqE7pqkZ0E" data-vars-event-id="c23">pic.twitter.com/GqE7pqkZ0E</a>— Adrian Mutu (@adrianmutu) <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/adrianmutu/status/521943522610798594" class="body-link" data-vars-item-name="BL-162886-https://twitter.com/adrianmutu/status/521943522610798594" data-vars-event-id="c23">October 14, 2014</a>
Pune City, managed by former Napoli boss Franco Colomba, will visit Delhi Dynamos on Tuesday without Mutu, but World Cup winner and ex-Juventus man David Trezeguet is expected to start.
