Liverpool legend Michael Owen believes a transfer for Manchester City striker Erling Haaland to Real Madrid is unlikely because the massive financial cost makes a deal nearly impossible alongside their existing wage structure and star forwards.
In a chat with Skinradar.gg, Owen questioned how Los Blancos could justify spending massive funds or balance fitting another major star into an attack that already handles positional overlaps between Mbappé and Vinícius.
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“While they’ve got Mbappe, I can’t see them spending that money.
“Already people question whether Vini Junior and Mbappe can play together because Mbappe likes to play off the left a bit, they already question that. If it was Mbappe and Haaland, how would you fit those two in? Would you play Mbappe off the left?
“I think it’s one or the other, to be honest. I don’t think you can have two of the arguably best centre-forwards in the world, Mbappe and Haaland. I don’t think you can have them in the same squad, personally.
“I mean, the cost, and then trying to make that work… It’d have to be that Mbappe would leave for that to happen, I would think. They’ve already tried the Galactico thing many years ago, my generation. Just collecting great players is not necessarily the answer.”
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Haaland has delivered a historically elite performance for Manchester City, scoring 162 goals in 198 total appearances across his first four dominant seasons, breaking numerous club and Premier League scoring records, and winning nine major trophies.
In his 2022–23 debut season, Haaland scored an astonishing 52 goals in 53 appearances in all competitions, setting the record for most goals in a single Premier League season (36 goals) and winning the European Treble.
