Werder Bremen have warned Real Madrid that Mesut Ozil will play for the club in the Champions League on Wednesday evening unless a deal is agreed in the next 24 hours.
Werder have already rejected a €9 million offer for Ozil, who starred for Germany at the World Cup finals earlier this summer, and unless Real return with an improved bid the playmaker will be cup-tied for the Champions League.
Klaus Allofs, the Bundesliga club's general manager, said: "The facts are pretty clear. If a club is looking to sign Mesut to play Champions League, then that club needs to make a decision before Wednesday. If Mesut Ozil is a player of Werder Bremen on Wednesday, we are going to play him against Sampdoria.
"We have not lined up any plan to not do that for whatever reason," Allofs told the Deutsche Presseagentur. "It would be up to Real Madrid to show up with the right answer to this all."
It is reported that Werder are seeking €16 million for Ozil, who has also attracted interest from Barcelona and Manchester United this summer.
However, Ozil's father, Mustafa, claims that his son has already agreed a deal with Real and will be playing at the Bernabeu either this season or next.
"Mesut and I stayed at the chalet of Florentino Perez in Madrid, he invited us there and everything was resolved quickly. We were impressed by his willingness to help my child play for his club," Ozil's father told Turkish newspaper Hurriyet.
"We promised that if Bremen keep Mesut for now, next year he will join for free."
Mustafa Ozil also said that Inter Milan had made a better offer to his son but it was rejected in favour of a move to Madrid.
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