Manchester City is currently still very ready and could easily beat Real Madrid again.
Haaland is still Pep Guardiola's mainstay and as long as these two important roles are still with Man City, they will remain the strongest club after Real Madrid.
Haaland can't do much when facing Madrid, therefore Guardiola needs new players on the front lines who can accompany Haaland to be more productive in scoring goals easily. Haaland can only shine when facing an underdog team, whereas if he meets a strong team In fact, he can't penetrate the defense well and even has difficulty scoring goals. I don't think Guardiola can continue to rely on Haaland because there are still many great players who can be recruited into Manchester City's main squad to fill the front line so they can be more productive when facing strong and difficult teams. . I'm still not sure Manchester City will win the UCL next season if they don't make changes to their current main squad. Haaland is still Pep Guardiola's mainstay and as long as these two important roles are still with Man City, they will remain the strongest club after Real Madrid.
Manchester City is up to the very task to win the champions league title when they face Real Madrid. They are not a team that cannot be beaten and needs some extra force to penetrate into their defense. Every team has their weak points and if the weakness of a team is known by the rival team, it becomes easier for them to penetrate into them and get their win. Real Madrid is not an easy club to beat in the champions league and the same thing applies to Manchester City. They’re both big teams in Europe and when they face, the outcome is always unknown and we always wait to see how the match is being played before one can predict how it can end. With addition of new players or not, this team can be at their best and will eventually become the team to defeat Real Madrid in the champions league and raise the trophy once again.
When it comes to champions league experienced and tricks are needed to outshine your opponent, although am not doubting the fact that Manchester city does not have all it takes to win the champions league but the need to be more serious anytime they meet best teams in the knockout stage because more experienced teams will always want keep their track record running at that stage, as we all know Realmadrid is one of the best team in the world and we can cant talk about football in the world without mentioning Realmadrid, the history remain with Realmadrid, Manchester city is also a good team but we can't compare them with the existing history that Realmadrid holds, we can't talk about Football without history, the Realmadrid that I know will always want to shine, looking at their selection of players everyone will agree with me that Realmadrid is equal to the task to combat with any team, as for Manchester city to defeat RealMadrid to lift the trophy one more as you said, time shall tell.