French soccer club Montpellier has denied racism allegations made by Australia forward Mary Fowler, who said a teammate gave her bananas as a departing gift in 2022.

Montpellier said in a statement Thursday it discovered “with astonishment a number of accusations” made by Fowler in her memoir, “Bloom,” and said there's no evidence to support her claims.

"Some of them are particularly serious, and the shortcut that results from them — portraying the club as a racist entity — is unacceptable,” Montpellier's statement said.

Fowler was 17 when she joined Montpellier in 2020 and played there for 2½ seasons before leaving for Manchester City.

In her book, Fowler wrote that she and teammate Ashleigh Weerden were left out of a presentation for departing players, who were given flowers after th

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