"Nobody has brought this subject up and we won't until we have played our last two matches," he told Telemadrid TV station.

He also said "If we signed all the players the press said we are interested in then we would have a squad of 60 players.

"I don't know any player who would not like to come to Real Madrid, but they all want to appear in the papers and then believe that when they do they are going to sign for Madrid.

"The experience I have shows that no one leaves the club in December and that we have only ever signed one player then and that is (Thomas) Gravesen" said the Real president.

Real face Osasuna and then Racing Santander, on December 21, before the winter break when the coaching staff will submit proposals for new players in the January transfer window.

A Spanish newspaper report on Sunday suggested the Irish midfielder had already passed a medical for Real, but the claim was dismissed as "completely wrong" by Keane's representative.

Michael Kennedy, the lawyer who manages Keane's financial affairs, said his client would not be making any decision on his future until Wednesday or Thursday at the earliest.

That would appear to rule out Real after Perez's comments.

Real had emerged as favourites to sign the 34-year-old because it seems Celtic, the club he most wanted to join, are unable or unwilling to put together an acceptable salary package.

Keane, who earned a reported 90,000 pounds-a-week at United, has said he would prefer not to stay in the English Premiership and be forced to play against the club he served for 12 trophy-laden years.

But over half the clubs in the Premiership have expressed an interest in signing Keane.

Bolton and Everton are regarded as the frontrunners as he could switch to them without uprooting his large family from his home south of Manchester.