Lautaro Martínez's answer about playing with the Real Madrid shirt in 2024

The Ballon d'Or gala has served the merengue executives to rule out one of the forwards with whom they established contact last summer from their agenda: Lautaro Martínez. In the midst of the commotion and whirlwind of rumors and exclusives generated by the 'Mbappé case', journalist Mario Cortegana from The Athletic dropped that Real Madrid had contacted the Inter Milan forward.

Finally, those approaches came to nothing. In the face of constant complaints from Carlo Ancelotti, who requested a '9' to replace Karim Benzema, the Madrid bosses assured him that the only signing planned for that summer, if it happened, was Kylian Mbappé. Finally, French stayed in the Parc des Princes and ‘Carletto’ had to reinvent himself and bring to light his famous 4-4-2 diamond formation that is giving such good results for now thanks to Jude Bellingham.

However, not everyone has forgotten Real Madrid's contacts with Lautaro Martínez. In that sense, several journalists asked the Nerazzurri '10' about the interest of the merengue squad. The captain of Inter Milan could not have been more forceful in his response: "It is clear that Real Madrid is an important team... but my head and my heart are always with Inter", confessed the Argentine.

Lautaro is totally ruled out

These statements, which Lautaro finished with "I'm very happy there", seem to definitively distance the Argentine striker from the Santiago Bernabéu. Once again, the priority of the board of directors led by Florentino Pérez would be Kylian Mbappé, whose contracting as a free agent is open for next summer and could be attempted in the month of January thanks to FIFA regulations that allow negotiations with players six months before the end of his current contract.