Carlos, the father of Liverpool's Argentina World Cup-winning international midfielder Alexis Mac Allister's father was interviewed on the famous local Argentine YouTube football talk show Picado TV on Tuesday, and for the first time refuted the rumours claiming that his son would join Real Madrid this summer.

Carlos refuted on the show that his son never thought about leaving the club, and his goal since the beginning was to focus on continuing his excellent form and helping Liverpool achieve the goal of winning the Premier League as soon as possible.

He criticized that, knowing that Alexis still had a long contract with Liverpool, it was a hateful thing to deliberately use the name of his son and the discussion of whether teammate Trent Alexander-Arnold would really leave the team to join Real Madrid after the contract expired this summer to clickbait, and reiterated that Alexis was always happy at the Reds and had no intention of leaving the club at all.

Carlos Mac Allister said: "This rumour is not worth any response. Alexis is very happy at Liverpool and dreams of being crowned Premier League champions at the end of this season, and then enjoying the vacation he didn't get to enjoy last year."

"I know many people are very concerned about whether Trent will really leave Liverpool after his contract expires, but I think it is very important and moral to respect and not denigrate the club that others are currently playing for, so I think it is unnecessary for our parties to come out in public to make any response to this rumour."

"He still has a contract with Liverpool that will run until the summer of 2028. He has been very happy since the first day he came to Anfield. He has never decided to leave the club to join Real Madrid. He doesn't want to go anywhere. I even hope he can stay there forever."

Afterwards, Egyptian media outlet Win Win's well-known Liverpool team correspondent Ishmael Mahmoud, also confirmed the matter.

He said, Mac Allister had never thought about leaving Liverpool, and now that his teammate Mohamed Salah has completed his contract extension, this has become one of the biggest factors for him not to leave the club.

Mahmoud added that, as Carlos said, the rumour was just one of the means by Real Madrid's mouthpiece Marca to rationalize that the club was trying to poach Alexander-Arnold and wishfully believed that this could disrupt Liverpool's morale, so fans don't have to take the rumour too seriously.

Upon verification, Marca fabricated and published this rumour on April 13, local time in Spain.

In the article, the author lied that Real Madrid has regarded Mac Allister as the primary target to replace Toni Kroos, and also lied that the former Brighton player "has agreed" to follow Alexander-Arnold's footsteps and become the latest member of Los Blancos.

In order to justify his fake news, the author even belittled Real Sociedad defensive midfielder Martin Zubimendi, falsely claiming that Real Madrid's top management "believed" that his technical qualities were not as good as Mac Allister's.

After this fake news was published, it immediately attracted low-quality media outlets and fans who did not speak Spanish from all over the world to repost it.