Football News : Neymar again denies Real Madrid deal in place

By ESPNsoccernet staff

Neymar has reiterated his desire to stay at Santos in the immediate future, rejecting reports that he passed a secret medical with Real Madrid in a Sao Paulo hospital on Friday.

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Neymar insists he has not agreed a deal with Real Madrid

Despite several denials from both Neymar and his agent, rumours abound that the talented forward has already agreed to move to Europe in the January transfer window.

And reports in the Brazilian press on Friday claimed that Neymar, 19, was due to sign a contract with Real on Monday after passing a medical in Sao Paulo.

But the Brazil international insisted the reports are pure fallacy and that he was merely in hosp ital "to solve a personal problem", while also pledging to stay at Santos to play in their centenary year in 2012.

"I have been sold like 30 times," Neymar is quoted as saying by Lancenet. "There is no truth to that, I am a player of Santos and I will stay here to play at the club's centenary.

"That is all speculation, there is no deal. I went to the hospital to solve a personal problem."