Jonas Borring has left the Danish top-flight club Randers after it was revealed that his team-mate and captain, Christian Keller, had been seeing his wife behind his back. The affair came to light last week and it was widely assumed that Keller would leave the club but on Wednesday it was announced that it is Borring who will move on.

Borring said: “After long considerations and an emotionally difficult time I really wanted to return but considering the circumstances I found that impossible to do. Randers is a club that has meant a lot to me and it will be very difficult to leave the fans who have given me so much support and been part of my success. Randers will always have a special place in my heart and I have received so much sympathy and support the recently and I will never forget that. I will now start a new adventure in football.”

Speaking to TV 2 Sport, Keller said: “We are losing a good player, someone who would have helped the team, but we have lost players before who would have helped the team and I think that the club, the squad and myself will move on. We won’t stop to play football just because a player leaves us.”

Borring played 88 times for Randers, scoring 16 goals. He has split from his wife Kira Egsgaard but they are still living together along with their two children. The club are currently coached by the former Derby County defender Colin Todd, who managed a host of English clubs including Bolton Wanderers and Middlesbrough.

Of the situation, Randers FC’s sporting director Ole Nielsen said: “We would have been delighted to see Jonas Borring back with the team but that was not possible. His departure is a sporting loss for us but we hope to see him on a football pitch, where he belongs, soon again. We are grateful for what he did for Randers and wish him every success in the future.

Borring had previously said: “That she [Egsgaard] has decided to get together with our captain hurts a lot and that makes the situation between me and Keller at Randers untenable. He has broken rule No1 in the dressing room. He has completely knifed me in the back.”