Montpellier have denied racism allegations made by star Australian international forward Mary Fowler, who said in a new book that a teammate at the French club gave her bananas as a farewell gift in 2022 .

Montpellier said in a statement on Thursday that they had discovered “with astonishment a number of accusations” made by Fowler in her memoir ‘Bloom’, and added that 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 two-and-a-half seasons before leaving for Manchester City.

In her book, Fowler wrote that she and Dutch teammate Ashleigh Weerden were

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