{"id":612749,"date":"2022-05-13T09:27:06","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T13:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=612749"},"modified":"2022-05-22T16:57:01","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T20:57:01","slug":"lewandowski-barcelona-transfer-likely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/05\/13\/lewandowski-barcelona-transfer-likely\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Lewandowski Barcelona Transfer Likely as Agent Claims &#8220;Bayern is History&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Robert Lewandowski&#8217;s Barcelona transfer is looking increasingly likely as his agent,<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1528455965825191936\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Pini Zahavi has told Bild<\/a>, \u201cFor Lewandowski, Bayern is history\u201d. Lewandowski has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1528458056081756167\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fallen out with the Bayern Munich board<\/a> over contract talks and will leave Bayern Munich this summer.<\/p>\r\n<p>Talks have started between Barcelona and Bayern Munich, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1528292832506654720\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">as reported by Fabrizio Romano <\/a>with Barcelona making an opening offer. Bayern want more and want a ready made replacement before their star man goes anywhere. Bayern were priced out of a move for <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/05\/09\/manchester-city-erling-haaland-transfer\/\" target=\"_self\">Erling Haaland by Manchester City.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1525742024581951490\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The striker has said<\/a>, &#8220;I&#8217;ve received no contract offer from FC Bayern and decided to leave. We need to find the best solution for me and for the club.&#8221; The club, however, are not letting a move happen easily.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<h2>Robert Lewandowski Barcelona Transfer Even More Likely Despite Bayern Saying That Lewandowski Is Staying<\/h2>\r\n<h3>The Club and Lewandowski Fall Out<\/h3>\r\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\r\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"pl\">Robert Lewandowski\u2019s agent Pini Zahavi tells Bild: \u201cFor Lewandowski, Bayern is history\u201d. \u26a0\ufe0f\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf1 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FCBayern?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#FCBayern<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nSLJ9zIK6C\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/nSLJ9zIK6C<\/a><\/p>\r\n\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1528455965825191936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 22, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote>\r\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>Bayern director <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1528341984192102400\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Salihamid\u017ei\u0107 has said<\/a>, &#8220;He has a contract until 2023 and he will fulfill it.&#8221; And Oliver Kahn, Bayern Munich\u2019s chief executive, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1525819098772475904\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told br24sport<\/a> the Polish international would be going nowhere this summer, saying, \u201cIt&#8217;s not something that causes us a headache. We made an offer to his agent. He rejected this offer.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1525068535562702849\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Julien Nagelsmann said<\/a>, \u201cMy opinion is known and his contract situation too\u2026 it\u2019s [the] club&#8217;s business. You can ask Robert or the club,&#8221; when questioned about his star striker.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>Zahavi has dished out a threat to the Bavarians, saying, \u201cBayern say he has a contract until 2023? Of course, they can keep Robert for another year\u2026 but that\u2019s something I don&#8217;t recommend.&#8221; It is becoming an ugly situation between player and club. It seems there is only one way that this breakup can be resolved.<\/p>\r\n<p>Robert Lewandowski has not been happy with his situation for months and has <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/05\/03\/bayern-munich-striker-la-liga-giants\/\" target=\"_self\">always dreamt of playing in Spain, at either Barcelona<\/a> or Real Madrid. The 33-year-old is top of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/04\/13\/xavi-refuses-to-rule-out-robert-lewandowski-transfer\/\" target=\"_self\">Xavi&#8217;s wish list<\/a> this summer. Lewandowski has\u00a0scored 344 goals for the club in all competitions for Bayern, helping them to eight Bundesliga titles in his eight seasons, along with three German Cups and the Champions League.<\/p>\r\n<h3>Price of a Goal Scorer<\/h3>\r\n<p>Lewandowski has an incredible goalscoring record. The Polish captain is set to become the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/05\/23\/robert-lewandowski\/\" target=\"_self\">Bundesliga\u2019s top scorer<\/a> for the fifth season in a row. The 33-year-old has 509 goals and 135 assists in 675 career club games. He also has 75 in 129 for his country. Reports from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/20876\/12611600\/robert-lewandowski-tells-bayern-munich-he-wont-extend-contract-beyond-2022-23-striker-wants-barcelona-move-this-summer\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sky in Germany<\/a> are that Barcelona are set to offer a two- or three-year contract with a salary of \u00a330-34 million a year. <br \/><br \/>Barcelona were priced out of a move for Erling Haaland due to the high fees involved. The Catalans can pay high salaries however, making a move for Lewandowski more likely. <br \/><br \/><br \/><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Lewandowski&#8217;s Barcelona transfer is looking increasingly likely as his agent, Pini Zahavi has told Bild, \u201cFor Lewandowski, Bayern is history\u201d. Lewandowski has fallen out with the Bayern Munich board over contract talks and will leave Bayern Munich this summer. Talks have started between Barcelona and Bayern Munich, as reported by Fabrizio Romano with Barcelona [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4154,"featured_media":612949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1365,1364],"tags":[8275,5495,9242],"class_list":["post-612749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bundesliga","category-barcelona","category-bayern-munich","tag-julian-naglesmann","tag-oliver-kahn","tag-pini-zahavi"],"modified_by":"Declan Wiseman, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}