Barcelona and Real Madrid both met with Erling Braut Haaland's agent and father about potentially signing the 20-year-old scoring sensation this summer

• Barcelona and Real Madrid have both held initial talks about signing Erling Braut Haaland.
• Haaland's agent and his father met with the presidents of the two clubs on Thursday.
• Haaland has scored 49 goals in 49 games since moving to Borussia Dortmund last January.

Erling Braut Haaland's agent Mino Raiola has met with both FC Barcelona and Real Madrid about a summer move for the Borussia Dortmund striker, according to Spanish newspaper Sport.

Haaland's father, Alf Inge, also joined Raiola in talks with newly appointed Barcelona president Joan Laporta and Madrid's Florentino Perez on Thursday.

Raiola and Haaland's father were filmed arriving in Barcelona ahead of the talks, which Spanish football expert Guillem Balague described as an intentional move.

"If you want to get to Barcelona in secret, you can. It's very easy," Balague said on Twitter. "But I think it was everybody's intentions that this was a very public affair."

Haaland, 20, is the soccer world's hottest young striker.

The Norway international burst onto the scene with RB Salzburg last season, scoring 28 goals, including eight in the Champions League, before the turn of the year.

He moved to Dortmund in January 2020, where he has since scored 49 times in 49 games.

Balague says Barcelona, even despite its massive debts, want to sign Haaland not only because of his phenomenal goal-scoring record, but also because his arrival might help convince Lionel Messi to stay at the club.

Messi tried to leave the Camp Nou last season and is free to leave this summer having yet to put pen to paper on a new contract.

"Right now, it's not about focusing on the negatives, it's about focusing on the possibility of actually convincing Messi to stay, and of course signing one superstar," Balague said.

"It's an indication that [Barcelona] want to have these conversations with the biggest agents, with the biggest players."

Raiola hinted in a recent interview with the BBC that a number of club's in England are also interested in signing Haaland, who is valued at $180 million.

"Only a maximum of 10 clubs can afford to buy [Haaland] and give the platform you would like after you've been in Dortmund, and four of those clubs are in [England]," he said.