<p>  <table style="width: 159px; height: 42px" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="159" align="right" border="1">  <tbody>  <tr>  <td><img alt="" src="/imagedata/2011/jan/16Nistelrooy.jpg" border="0" /></td></tr>  <tr>  <td>  <p align="center"><span style="font-size: 8pt">Ruud van Nistelrooy</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>Hamburg striker Ruud van Nistelrooy was reported on Saturday to have demanded to be allowed to return to Spain after Real Madrid expressed interest in re-signing the Dutchman.<br /><br />With Real's Argentine striker Gonzalo Higuain a long-term injury casualty, van Nistelrooy, 34, is out of contract at the end of the season in Hamburg and said to be eager to return to Madrid, where he spent four years.<br /><br />After hearing Real were interested in bringing him back on a six-month deal, van Nistelrooy is reported to have made his demands at the Hamburg team's hotel.<br /><br />"If you don't let me go back to Madrid, I'll never play for Hamburg again," he is said to have told the club, according to German magazine Kicker. </p>

Hamburg striker Ruud van Nistelrooy was reported on Saturday to have demanded to be allowed to return to Spain after Real Madrid expressed interest in re-signing the Dutchman

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