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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) \u2014 Real Madrid manager Rafael Benitez says defender Sergio Ramos will \"100%\" stay with the Spanish club and not make a move to Manchester United.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Spanish media have linked the 29-year-old Spaniard with a possible shift to the English Premier League team.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But Benitez all but ruled that out Thursday at a media conference ahead of his side's final match of the International Champions Cup friendly tournament against Manchester City at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Friday.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ramos, a World Cup winner with Spain in 2010, is Real Madrid's longest-serving player and has been handed the captaincy following the departure of long-serving goalkeeper Iker Casillas.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\"Yes, for me, 100% (he is staying),\" Benitez said. \"Ramos is our player, he's a key player for us, he's the captain ... he will be crucial for us during the season. I insist that it is clear for both me and the club that Sergio will be here.\"\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Madrid midfielder Luka Modric wanted Ramos to stay with the 10-time European champions.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\"I hope that he stays,\" the Croatian player said. \"He's a very important part of the team. He's our captain and our leader, both on and off the pitch.\"\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Benitez also denied suggestions from traveling Spanish journalists that his star forward Cristiano Ronaldo was unhappy \u2014 \"angry and tense\" in some of the media's words.\r\n\r\n\r\n\t&lt;strong&gt;WILSON: How Vidal will fit in at Bayern&amp;nbsp;Munich&lt;/strong&gt;\r\n\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\"I have had the opportunity this week to spend quite a few days with him,\" Benitez said. \"I can say that he is competitive, he likes to win and for that reason he is the best in the world, I would like all my players to have that desire to win and compete.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\"His performance will be up to scratch ... seeing Ronaldo up close training, I can see that's he doing very well.\"\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;More than 90,000 people are expected to attend Friday night's match at the MCG.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\r\n&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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