😬 Romano gets it in the neck! Club denies agreement on mega deal | OneFootball

Forget the transfer saga surrounding Kylian Mbappé, Neymar and the rest. In the summer of 2026, Yan Diomande’s supposed move to Real Madrid is the new hot shit. The supposed move?

Yep, you read that right. After transfer guru Fabrizio Romano spent over a week reporting that Leipzig and Real Madrid had already agreed on a move for Diomande—and very publicly got into a spat with Sky expert Florian Plettenberg—the club from Saxony denied the whole thing today.

“It’s clear that so-called transfer experts reported a few days ago that the deal was done or gave their ‘Here we go.’ But that is not the case. We are not at that point yet,” Leipzig boss Marcel Schäfer told Sky today.

Diomande had previously missed the friendly against SC Verl (4–0) at the weekend due to illness, which only fueled speculation even more about an imminent move to Real Madrid.

One thing is certain: the final word in this transfer saga does not seem to have been spoken yet.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇩🇪 here.

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