You are right. Real Madrid already failed to sign their main targets, Mbappe & Haaland. Man City signed Haaland because Haaland's father ever played as a Man City player, City got an advantage of his father's history. While Mbappe decided to stay because Mbappe wants to play more in France and was interested in the big money offered by PSG management. Honestly, Real Madrid is very unlucky, they failed because of personal reasons that influenced those players' decisions. The latest news, Real Madrid wants to sign Lewandowski from Bayern. This may be the final target and probably fails also because Bayern doesn't want to lose their main striker. Too bad transfer season for Real madrid...