With the roadmap of the next signings that should mark the future of the team in the short term well structured, Madrid is aware of the uncertainties of the economic crisis derived from the coronavirus. It's the only thing that could ruin the intentions of the white club to reorganize after a season without signings, something that had not happened since 1980 (and, despite that, that season the final of the European Cup against Liverpool).
As this newspaper has been reporting, the number one target is Mbappé. Florentino has been patient with the strategy created to bring the footballer of the future, who will be the flagship of the entity. Next summer he will enter his last year of contract and Madrid is the best positioned to hire him because he has done a meticulous job of persuasion with the footballer's environment and Mbappé himself.
The only problem is that this operation would overlap with that of Camavinga, which also ends the contract in 2022 and that next summer he will be in the perfect situation to go out. If it were impossible to carry out both operations at the same time, it is clear that the priority is for Mbappé.
The reality of Haaland.
The third leg of the bench is Haaland. The Madrid forward is named after this 20-year-old for the medium-term future. But in 2021, AS has learned, his signing is practically impossible. In the first place, because it is not in Madrid's plans to bring Benzema to serious competition before he ends his contract, and that is in the summer of 2022 (if he does not renew again). And, secondly and more importantly, because Borussia will not let him leave before that date.
Although there was speculation in the German media with the possibility that there was a clause that would allow leaving Borussia for 75 million euros in the summer of 2021, sources of all Borussia solvency assure AS that it is not true. And they point out that and this is the important thing, There is only a verbal pact between the player's agent, Mino Raiola, and Borussia himself, to facilitate his departure (at an affordable price) from 2022.
Remember that the Borussia signed up Haaland in a very advantageous situation. He paid 20 million euros for Salzburg plus 23 in commissions to the father (8) and Mino Raiola (15). Included in that price was that verbal pact to let the Signal Iduna Park entity be made ren.