Deportivo Toluca manager Antonio Mohamed says his club has received no bids for central midfielder Marcel Ruiz.

Yesterday, reports in Mexico claimed the Blues were in discussions with the Liga MX champions regarding the 24-year-old.

However, the position is understood to have been overstated with the Blues having watched the Mexico international but with no approach made.

Following last night’s 3-1 home victory over Necaxa in the season’s opening fixture, in which Ruiz scored and assisted, manager Mohamed was asked about interest in the former Queretar and Tijuana man from Europe with the claims of Town talks having been widespread throughout the Mexican media.

“Marcel has nothing concrete, the club has nothing concrete, and besides, he wants to go to an important club,” he said.

The Liga MX champions are reportedly hoping to receive a fee of $10 million (£7.4 million) for Ruiz.

Since joining his current club in 2022, the 5ft 11in tall midfielder has made 125 appearances, scoring 15 goals and picking up 17 assists.

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Steve_ITFC_Sweden added 12:11 - Jul 13 Well, there's a surprise! The "important club" comment was rather rude. As I said earlier, I'd be surprised if this guy ends up with us. Unless, of course, this is negotiating tactics of a Trump-like nature. But I doubt it.
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bluesissy added 12:20 - Jul 13 Mmmmm Interesting...no bid yet
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USA added 12:34 - Jul 13 Ouch!! This one isn’t happening then!!
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Monkey_Blue added 12:40 - Jul 13 That’s pretty dismissive of us, an unimportant club.
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TheBlueGnu added 12:53 - Jul 13 Why would we think that Marcel Ruiz would be interested in a composite material composed of aggregate bound together with a fluid cement?
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churchmans added 13:18 - Jul 13 'He would rather go to an important club'lol
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bluerico added 13:28 - Jul 13 Let hi go to an important club. Next
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MVBlue added 13:50 - Jul 13 Well with the earlier notices about us expecting to surprise people with the level of our new signings, this guy does fit that billing. An impressive player it seems.
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DavoIPB added 14:26 - Jul 13 Sounds about right. Why would an international at the top of their game. Getting goals and assists playing for Mexico who has interest from premier clubs go to Ipswich
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blues1 added 14:39 - Jul 13 Davil PN. And what pl clubs are interested in him then? Been no mention of any as yet. Or maybe you know something no1 else seems to know.
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tetchris added 15:56 - Jul 13 So our money isn’t good enough as we aren’t an “important club?”
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Vic added 16:36 - Jul 13 Far from dismissing ITFC this is him putting out a ‘come and get me Ipswich Town’ plea. Clearly Norwich have been sniffing around and he’s basically waiting for an important club like Town to come in for him.
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Ipswich1977 added 17:14 - Jul 13 It's all kept under wraps until it can made news. I'm sure a bid has been made, it'll all happen in due course. Managers say these things for a reason.
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JewellintheTown added 18:56 - Jul 13 I suspect the "important club" comment was a lost in translation moment & probably means a top level club like the Prem. I'm sure he wants to play at the highest level. We all want what we want but doesn't mean we'll get it.
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Steelmonkey added 10:20 - Jul 14 Who the feck are Toluca?
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