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Fiorentina striker Adrian Mutu will miss his side's opening Champions League clash at Lyon through injury.

Romania international Mutu picked up the injury while away with his national squad last week, sustaining a muscular lesion in his right thigh.

That has ruled him out of the Group E trip to Lyon on September 15. The 30-year-old will also miss Sunday's home game against Cagliari in Serie A.

However, medics believe he will be out of action for no more than 10 days, meaning he should be fit to return in time for the trip to Roma on the following weekend.

Mutu's agent has dismissed reports claiming his client will leave Florence to join Russian side Terek Grozny in a bid to raise the money to pay the fine imposed by FIFA on the player.

Mutu was ordered to pay a £14.6m to Chelsea after the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld FIFA's ruling for breach of contract.

"Grozny? Let's not joke about it," said Giovanni Becali.

"Grozny is a team that is in the middle of the table in the Russian top league, where there are three Romanians playing.

"They can afford him (Mutu) as the club president is friends with (Russian prime minister Vladimir) Putin.

"But Terek is Terek and Mutu is Mutu and we have not received any offers.

"Mutu is happy at Fiorentina and has a long contract that will be respected.

"Mutu's main problem is the fine that in one way or another we have to resolve."

Eurosport