It seems that the time has really come to say goodbye … After eight years, 19 trophies, 344 goals in 374 official matches, Robert Lewandowski is set to leave Bayern Munich of his own free will and moves, it seems certain, to Barcelona. Speculations started during the winter, and they were more and more frequent in April, then the Pole hinted after the last round of the Bundesliga in Wolfsburg “how it might have been his last game for Bayern”, so last week, the media across Europe began to write about details of the agreement.Barcelona are not willing to exceed the €60m bar for Robert Lewandowski. Barça believe that Bayern will not be able to reject such an offer, especially that the player himself made his intention to leave very clear and with only one year left on his contract [@fansjavimiguel] pic.twitter.com/ubaEveGOPp— Bayern & Germany (@iMiaSanMia) May 19, 2022 Contradictory information has been coming from Bayern these days. Sports director Hasan Salihamidzic spoke about Lewandowski’s open desire to leave and how such an epilogue should not be ruled out, while President Herbert Heiner reassured fans:“Lewandowski has a contract until June 2023 and will play for us until then. When you sign a contract, you can’t speak of ‘forcing’ someone to fulfil it. Players like Lewandowski permanently receive offers from other clubs, it is nothing new. We already had the case in 2019 when Robert flirted with Real Madrid. FC Bayern knows this situation” said Bavarian’s president.Lewa tells Bayern he won’t sign an extension, wants a Barca moveIn the end, however, it turned out that the Pole put a lot of pressure on his manager Pini Zahavi and that Bayern, taking into account how much he had brought him in the past years, agreed to let him go this summer. When we talk about numbers, they are quite high for a player of Levi’s age. Thus, Catalan Sport states tonight that Laporta “boxed out” a significant reduction in compensation, which the Germans insisted on, so instead of the requested 60,000,000 euros, they will pay 40,000,000 and certain bonuses. The same source states that Lewandowski will sign a contract for three years and that he will earn significantly less per season than in Munich – “only” 9 million euros net. He had a net of 13 million at the Allianz Arena.Bayern raging at traitor Sule after the defender refused to travel with the teamAccording to the Spanish media, Zahavi settled all the details with Barcelona and even bought a few jerseys in the official shop of the club from the Nou Camp and then printed the name of Robert Lewandowski on the back. Brazzo Salihamidzic has been working to find a new striker for Bayern for the last few days. German media write about frequent meetings with representatives of Sasa Kalajdzic, but it is unlikely that the Austrian striker of Serbian origin would be the first option in the attack. As a reminder, at the beginning of the month, it was rumoured that Bayern could go after Romelu Lukaku from Chelsea because with the departure of Lewandowski, there would be enough money left in the budget for the Belgian. But, if an agreement is reached with Ousmane Dembele (a salary of 18 million euros gross is mentioned), it is hard to believe that Lukaku will remain in the focus of the Bavarian club.
