The one piece in New Israeli in the middle of all these matches that broke over the last few days

related to Ibrahimah Kanaute, and it was reported by David Ornstein of the Athletic.

Real Madrid considered Ibrahim Karnate, but they were before.

But they have no interest in signing the French international.

The 26-year-old's unresolved liberal contract situation could still go either way. My first question on that is, is this normal for like a club to tell a team we're not going to sign your lad on a free transfer at the end of the year? That for the first part for me was like, that seems quite strange. What, is that, what, is that, what, have you heard this before? Is that something that you hear

through the back channel?

Because I was very surprised that.

Does I see that as the report? Yeah, by the way, that lads, we could have had them if we want to see, but actually we don't really want them. Yeah, I was surprised to read that last week. You know, it's not sure, like you said,

not sure it is the norm

where teams

contact the other team

and say,

we're not interested

in your player.

You know,

if they,

they,

they, sure, like you said, not sure it is the norm where teams contact the other team and say we're not interested in your player.

You know, if they did want, all they have to leave was wait another five weeks and they

were able to speak to him with rep censors as of New Year's Day.

So, yeah, I mean, let's see what happens.

I still, I wouldn't have that as gospel in terms of Ramadrids ending their interest in

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