The player's agent, father and current club have all denied any agreement exists.
Riquelme appeared on Pablo Motos's prime-time programme wearing a personalised Haaland shirt that host Motos kept deliberately concealed throughout the show before the reveal. The moment was constructed for maximum impact — and it generated it, briefly.
But Rafaela Pimenta, who manages Haaland's commercial affairs, and Alfie Haaland, the player's father and representative, issued a joint response that left no ambiguity.
"All very entertaining, but it is not true. We wish both candidates the best in the Madrid elections."
Manchester City confirmed they would also release a formal statement clarifying the situation.
Riquelme sought to soften the denial before it landed, producing a notarial act during the programme and attaching a personal financial guarantee to his claim.
"I promised I would leave it under a notary that if I am president, nothing of the club will be sold — it will belong to its members. And I commit: the two players I have announced, I have signed a personal notarial guarantee — if I breach it, I will pay 100% of the full membership fee for all 100,000 Real Madrid members. Haaland has a release clause and he wants to come to Madrid."
The clause in question — a reported £175m release clause in Haaland's Manchester City contract — is a matter of public record. Whether Haaland himself has any desire to trigger it and move to the Bernabéu is an entirely separate question, and one his representatives have now answered clearly.
Riquelme had already announced former Real Madrid captain Raúl as his designated sporting director and Fernando Hierro as academy director, and pledged a 50 per cent reduction in membership fees until the club won the Champions League. He said his coaching appointment — described as "the one all Real Madrid fans want" — would be announced before the election.
Florentino Pérez, the strong favourite to win Sunday's vote, was blunt in his response: "I don't believe a word from him."