Thursday's edition of Spanish sports newspaper Marca claimed the Spanish champions were interested in signing the 25-year-old, while foreign media have gone as far as to suggest Ajax had received a bid of 25million euros for their captain.

But Arnold Oosterveer denied there had been any concrete interest in the striker, telling fcupdate.nl: "No, nothing is going on at the moment. The rumours are nonsense."

Huntelaar, who scored 33 goals in 34 appearances last season, is under contract until summer 2010.