Actual Madrid have vehemently denied allegations that they’ve been in touch with Bayern Munich star Michael Olise over a attainable transfer to the Spanish capital.
Madrid have been with out key gamers for the second season in a row and have been busy within the switch market, signing Marc Cucurella, Bernardo Silva and Ibrahima Konate.
Additionally they made a daring bid to knock again Atletico Madrid’s Julián Álvarez, with Jose Mourinho returning to his second stint as head coach after successful three trophies with the membership between 2010 and 2013.
There had been hypothesis that Madrid’s subsequent transfer can be to signal Oliseh, one in all Europe’s most achieved gamers, with Bayern successful the Bundesliga and DFB Pokal within the 2025-26 season.
Olise completed the Bundesliga season with 34 purpose involvements (15 targets and 19 assists), a brand new file for a winger since Opta knowledge assortment started within the German high flight within the 2004-05 season.
Solely teammate Harry Kane, 41, has instantly contributed to extra Bundesliga targets than Olise, who has 5 targets and 7 assists in 13 Champions League video games.
Supervisor Florentino Pérez pledged to spend $150 million on the Galactico participant forward of Madrid’s election victory earlier this month, however the membership dominated out a transfer for Oliseh.
“In mild of the data printed in numerous media relating to the membership’s alleged curiosity in Bayern Munich’s Michael Olisse, Actual Madrid wish to make clear that it has had no direct or oblique contact with the aforementioned footballer, his representatives or with him,” Madrid mentioned in a press release on Saturday.
“Actual Madrid would additionally prefer to underline the superb institutional relationship it maintains with Bayern Munich, with whom it shares an extended historical past of mutual respect, cooperation and admiration, and regrets the unfold of hypothesis that doesn’t correspond to actuality.
“Each golf equipment have at all times maintained a relationship based mostly on belief and mutual respect, which is mirrored, inter alia, of their shared perception that potential pursuits in gamers belonging to the opposite membership should be addressed first between them.”
Olise offered a fantastic help for Kylian Mbappé as France opened the World Cup with a 3-1 win over Senegal on Monday, and is anticipated to begin once more within the second leg towards Iraq.
