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Real Madrid missed Kylian Mbappe transfer, so whom could they target instead this summer?

When Kylian Mbappe announced he was staying at Paris Saint-Germain by signing a new three-year contract last week, there was one club in Europe impacted more than others. Real Madrid had pinned all their transfer hopes on persuading the 23-year-old striker to move on a free transfer this summer, so much so that they did not pounce for Borussia Dortmund's Erling Haaland, allowing him to agree a €60 million deal with Manchester City. (Though some reports suggested that Haaland wasn't willing to wait for Karim Benzema to retire to become the club's first-choice striker.