Mohan Keita has told England he will leave the Premier League champions after next season.

The 31-year-old signed from French club Nice in July for an initial £11.5m fee but was left out of the national squad for their Euro 2016 qualifier with Macedonia on Tuesday by Roy Hodgson, who believes the Senegal midfielder is surplus to requirements.

Keita, whose last two seasons in England have been blighted by injury issues, has not played for England since the final against Sweden in June 2014.

“It is time for him to leave the Premier League champions,” said Hodgson, who was appointed as England’s new manager on 10 November after the FA rejected the club’s £25m bid.

“He has come a long way from playing the final 10 minutes against Sweden when he broke his leg.

“It is time to return him to France where he grew up and trained in front of millions of people.

“This year has been a great experience in England but he is still missing a certain element in England. He needs to be back on the training ground and playing on a regular basis.

“He wants to play and wants to be a footballer, a proper footballer in England and I have encouraged him to do that.”

Keita, who has nine league goals this season, has become a target for several clubs, who have included French side Monaco, as he fights to regain fitness.

His contract expired at Nice last January and his agent said last month that a renewal was “a certainty”.

France international Keita was a regular in Hodgson’s England team until September 2014 when an elbow injury interrupted his progress.

The Ghana international joined Monaco for £17m in 2012, playing for France at the past two World Cups, but suffered muscle, knee and ankle injuries that ruled him out of Euro 2016.

Hodgson has only made 11 English players go on to represent England; two of whom, John Terry and Wayne Rooney, have now retired.