Revealed: How Haaland to Real Madrid could affect Man Utd's Kane pursuit

Stuart Telford

• 11 Mar 2023 15:31 GMT
• 3 min read

Erling Haaland's club future is tightly interwoven with Harry Kane's according to Liverpool legend Stan Collymore.

Haaland and Kane are the top two scorers in the Premier League this season, the Norwegian out in front with a barely fathomable 27 goals with Kane ahead of the rest of the chasing pack on 18.

Both strikers are in high demand, with Real Madrid a likely next destination for Haaland, while Manchester United and Bayern Munich are understood to be fighting it out for Kane's services at the end of the season.

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Haaland reportedly has a release clause of €200 million - for clubs outside of the Premier League only - which activates in the summer of 2024, effectively inviting an offer from Madrid at that point.

Kane would like to add trophies to his 202 Premier League goals to date, and United's recent EFL Cup triumph was yet more evidence that that might be better achieved at Old Trafford, meanwhile.

But Collymore thinks the transfer merry-go-round could be spinning faster and sooner than anticipated, especially with regard to Haaland.

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Collymore: City might want Kane again

"I'm just speculating with City because I'm starting to wonder if Real Madrid might come in with a £150million-plus offer for Erling Haaland that might tempt them to sell this summer or next," he told The Mirror.

"And I also wonder if any part of Haaland thinks he's not getting the opportunities to showcase all his footballing talents, his swagger, at the Etihad.

"I know he's scoring a shedload of goals but it's conceivable that he wants to leave a legacy on the game of a swashbuckling player who had it all rather than just someone who could poke them in from close range.

"We'll see on that one but if he did go then, comparatively, [Man City] could get Kane, who they have tried to get before, for next to nothing."

City were in for Kane the summer before last but baulked at Daniel Levy's £150m asking price. But he is out of contract in the summer of 2024 and Tottenham might have to settle for closer to the €89.8m (£79.5m) he is valued at by FootballTransfers' in-house algorithm.

City have a bolder claim to being a trophy-winning machine than do United, and, until either Qatari Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani or Sir Jim Ratcliffe buy the cub from the Glazer family, greater financial muscle.