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Real Madrid announce signing of Dumfries from Inter as Mourinho rebuild continues

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Mário Rui Ventura

Published 2 hours ago

Real Madrid officially announced the signing of Denzel Dumfries, the 30-year-old Dutch defender, from Inter Milan on Sunday.

[p][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/dumfries-denzel/QR0j1ejk/"]Denzel Dumfries[/a] recently completed his fifth season at [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/inter/Iw7eKK25/"]Inter Milan[/a] and represented the Netherlands at the 2026 World Cup.[/p][p]Now, the 30-year-old right-back, who previously played for Sparta Rotterdam, Heerenveen, and PSV before joining Inter, heads to [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/real-madrid/W8mj7MDD/"]Real Madrid[/a] under Jose Mourinho, signing a five-year contract, that is, until June 2030.[/p][embed guid="00fed5dc-5c68-4264-a2ca-37dc05e382ca" url="https://x.com/realmadriden/status/2073710226050613300" social-type="twitter" /][p][b]Real Madrid will pay 20 million euros for Dumfries, the amount set in the release clause of his contract with Inter Milan, which was renewed in 2024 and was valid until 2028.[/b][/p][p]Dumfries is the third new face in the Merengues' defence, after centre-back [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/konate-ibrahima/QJlbDbQe/"]Ibrahima Konate[/a] and left-back [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/cucurella-marc/QTynbZd3/"]Marc Cucurella[/a], with Portuguese international midfielder [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/silva-bernardo/lUg03qcR/"]Bernardo Silva[/a] also already confirmed as a reinforcement for Mourinho in what has been a busy summer of business already.[/p][image alt="Dumfries' stats in recent seasons" id="48ec8782-11d0-4152-836e-0a7ed9e035cf" credit-line="Flashscore" guid="c459c61e-81be-45ea-ae1f-99f5c2f3a3b4" original-width="1200" original-height="1200" /][p][b][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/news/transfer-news-live-tracker-updates/8QqUWm3n/"]Follow all the latest transfer news here.[/a][/b][/p]

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