{"id":614103,"date":"2022-06-22T23:31:18","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T03:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=614103"},"modified":"2022-06-22T23:31:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T03:31:18","slug":"barcelona-dealt-massive-blow-as-e45m-world-class-striker-looks-set-to-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/22\/barcelona-dealt-massive-blow-as-e45m-world-class-striker-looks-set-to-stay\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona Dealt Massive Blow as \u20ac45M \u2018World Class\u2019 Striker Looks Set to Stay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bayern Munich have no plans at all of selling Robert Lewandowski to Barcelona in the summer transfer window, their <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1539621372997111808?s=20&amp;t=W9tfCPvME5rSTw8khd2Xrw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CEO Oliver Kahn has confirmed<\/a>. This deals another blow to Barcelona&#8217;s hopes to sign the Polish striker to bolster their attack next season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bayern director Oliver Kahn: \u201cAs far as Lewandowski is concerned, not much has changed. He&#39;s still under contract until 2023\u201d. \ud83d\udd34 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FCBayern?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#FCBayern<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere at Bayern we are now looking forward to the first day of training with Robert\u201d, says via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iMiaSanMia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@imiasanmia<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/i8ppGGIvz5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/i8ppGGIvz5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1539621372997111808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 22, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Barcelona Receive Setback in Robert Lewandowski Transfer Chase<\/h2>\n<h3>Bayern Expect Lewandowski to Turn Up in Pre-season<\/h3>\n<p>Bayern Munich CEO Oliver Kahn has made it clear that the Bavarians are expecting Lewandowski to respect his contract and turn up to their pre-season training next month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iMiaSanMia\/status\/1539623960874205184?s=20&amp;t=W9tfCPvME5rSTw8khd2Xrw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">He said<\/a>: &#8220;As far as Lewandowski is concerned, not much has changed. He&#8217;s still under contract until 2023. Here at Bayern we are now looking forward to the first day of training with Robert.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/05\/30\/robert-lewandowskis-future-bayern-munich\/\" target=\"_self\">Robert Lewandowski\u2019s Future at Bayern Munich All but Over<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Bundesliga champions are unmoved in their insistence to not sell Lewandowski <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/05\/30\/robert-lewandowskis-future-bayern-munich\/\" target=\"_self\">despite his public plea to leave<\/a>. The 33-year-old striker <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/05\/bayern-munich-striker-barcelona\/\" target=\"_self\">prefers to join Barcelona<\/a> as he is craving a new challenge towards the end of his career.<\/p>\n<p>Bayern, however, are not ready to sell their goal machine, who scored 50 goals for them last season and helped them win another Bundesliga title.<\/p>\n<h3>Barcelona Could Be Forced to Look for Alternatives<\/h3>\n<p>Lewandowski is really intent on joining Barcelona and is trying his best to push through a move to the La Liga giants in the summer. Bayern, however, don&#8217;t seem interested at all in making that &#8216;dream move&#8217; happen and are trying to block his exit.<\/p>\n<p>Due to their financial issues, Barcelona can&#8217;t pay excessively high transfer fees to rope him in either. The Blaugrana could now be forced to look into other options if Lewandowski can&#8217;t convince Bayern to let him leave.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/22\/multiple-clubs-leeds-star-raphinha\/\" target=\"_self\">Multiple Clubs in the Running for Leeds United Star<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Barca currently only have Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang as their only natural number nine option. The experienced striker had a stellar second half of a campaign with them since joining in January, scoring 13 goals in 23 appearances for them.<\/p>\n<p>Xavi Hernandez does not want to rely only on the Gabonese forward to lead his line throughout a grueling campaign. Barcelona have <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/14\/barcelona-target-brazilian-striker-chelsea-arsenal\/\" target=\"_self\">earmarked Gabriel Jesus as an alternative<\/a> to Lewandowski, but the Brazilian striker looks to be close to a move to Arsenal. Irrespective of wherever they look at, finding a goal-scorer similar to the Bayern Munich striker can be a herculean task for Barca.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bayern Munich have no plans at all of selling Robert Lewandowski to Barcelona in the summer transfer window, their CEO Oliver Kahn has confirmed. This deals another blow to Barcelona&#8217;s hopes to sign the Polish striker to bolster their attack next season. Bayern director Oliver Kahn: \u201cAs far as Lewandowski is concerned, not much has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4218,"featured_media":614112,"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":[4,1365,1364,6,7188,28],"tags":[313],"class_list":["post-614103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bundesliga","category-barcelona","category-bayern-munich","category-la-liga","category-rumours","category-transfers","tag-robert-lewandowski"],"modified_by":"Dylan Guest, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614103","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\/4218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}