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| Robert Lewandowski of Poland in action during the UEFA Nations League League A Group 4 match between Poland and Belgium at PGE Narodowy on June 14, 2022 in Warsaw, Poland. |
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’s hopes to
sign the Polish striker to bolster their attack next season.
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.
He said: “As far as Lewandowski is concerned, not much has changed. He’s still under contract until 2023. Here at Bayern we are now looking forward to the first day of training with Robert.”
The Bundesliga champions are unmoved in their
insistence to not sell Lewandowski despite his
public plea to leave. The 33-year-old striker prefers to
join Barcelona as he is craving a new challenge towards the end
of his career.
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.
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’t seem interested at all in making that ‘dream
move’ happen and are trying to block his exit.
Due to their financial issues, Barcelona can’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’t convince Bayern to
let him leave.
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.
Xavi Hernandez does not want to rely only on the Gabonese forward to lead his line throughout a grueling campaign. Barcelona have earmarked Gabriel Jesus as an alternative 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.
