Antonio Nusa has made his view plain: Erling Haaland sits above Alexander Isak and Hugo Ekitike in a winner-stays-on comparison interview. For Liverpool, that adds a fresh layer to the club’s interest in the 21-year-old RB Leipzig winger, who is being discussed as a long-term wide option after Mohamed Salah’s exit this summer.
Fotmob and Haaland
Nusa’s choice came in an interview with Fotmob, where the format forced a direct call between elite forwards. He also preferred Haaland over Kylian Mbappe and Harry Kane, which left the Manchester City striker standing alone at the end of the sequence. The comparison did not come with any qualifying language. He simply went with Haaland.
That clean answer matters because it lines up with the way Nusa is being viewed in the transfer market. Liverpool have been linked with a deal for him, and the club’s need in the wide areas is tied to Salah’s exit this summer. The move would be about more than adding another attacker; it would be about finding a player who can settle into a long-term role on the right.
RB Leipzig and Liverpool
Nusa is 21 and plays for RB Leipzig, which puts him at the center of a familiar transfer pattern: a young wide player, big-name interest, and a profile that needs matching to a role. Previous windows already brought interest from Brentford and Chelsea, while Liverpool remain in the picture now. The question for any move is not whether he can attract attention. It is whether the fit is clean enough to turn interest into a deal.
There is a wrinkle in that fit. Nusa is right-footed, so if he played on the right flank he would not be able to cut in on his left as often. That does not rule him out, but it does change the logic of the move. Liverpool would be weighing a winger whose attacking habits are shaped differently from the classic inverted wide player, and that is where the comparison with Haaland becomes useful context rather than just a headline quote.
Erling Haaland in
Haaland’s standing in the comparison is not accidental. He scored 27 goals in 35 appearances, which gives Nusa’s preference a hard statistical base rather than a simple show of loyalty to a Norway teammate. For readers tracking Liverpool’s wide search, the immediate takeaway is that Nusa has already shown he is comfortable ranking the biggest names in the game, while the club must still decide whether his right-sided profile fits the space it wants to fill.
The next move is straightforward even if the outcome is not: Liverpool can keep the link alive, but the fit has to survive the same kind of blunt comparison that Nusa just made in public. If the club wants a right-sided option after Salah, it has to decide whether a right-footed winger is the answer it wants.
