• ‘I told Madrid that Kiko is worth more than €4m’ says president • Player came through Real academy before joining Catalan club

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Real Madrid are interested in the Espanyol goalkeeper Kiko Casilla, according to the Catalan club’s president Joan Collet.

Real are in the market for a keeper after their long-term captain Iker Casillas moved to Porto, leaving their new new coach Rafa Benítez with the Costa Rica international Keylor Navas and the inexperienced Fernando Pacheco.

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The record 10-times European champions have also been linked with Manchester United’s keeper David de Gea.

“I told Real Madrid that Kiko is worth more than €4m [£2.8m],” Collet said. “We are at €4m and for the time being we cannot accept it,” he added.

Casilla, 28, came through Real’s youth academy before moving to Barcelona-based Espanyol in 2007.

He has made one appearance for Spain, in November last year when he came on as a second-half substitute in a 1-0 defeat by the world champions Germany, but was not included in the coach Vicente del Bosque’s latest squad.