Barcelona is about to signal Poland striker Robert Lewandowski from Bayern Munich in a daring transfer by the debt-ridden membership to accumulate a world-class scorer who can lastly assist to fill the void left by Lionel Messi’s exit.
The European golf equipment have reached an settlement in precept for Lewandowski’s transfer to Camp Nou.
“We now have come to a verbal settlement with Barcelona. It’s good to have readability for all events,” Bayern president Herbert Hainer mentioned on Saturday on the membership’s Twitter account. “Robert is an unbelievable participant and he gained every little thing with us. We’re extremely grateful to him.”
Spanish media experiences mentioned that the switch would price Barcelona round €50 million.
The 33-year-old Lewandowski — one in every of soccer’s most prolific scorers of the previous decade — would tremendously increase Barcelona’s possibilities of rebuilding a aggressive staff after successful nothing final season.
Over the course of the previous 12 seasons within the German prime flight, Lewandowski scored a complete of 312 targets in 384 Bundesliga video games for Bayern and his earlier membership Borussia Dortmund. He hit 35 targets in 34 appearances final season to turn into the Bundesliga’s main scorer for the seventh time total.
Barcelona’s prime scorers have been Memphis Depay and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, with 13 targets every final marketing campaign.
He’s additionally a confirmed winner, with a complete of 10 Bundesliga titles and over a dozen top-level cup wins — together with the 2020 Champions League winners’ medal — to his title.
Solely the dominance of Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo over the previous decade has probably stopped Lewandowski from receiving extra particular person accolades.
However Lewandowski mentioned in late Could that “my story with Bayern Munich is over” after contract extension talks with Bayern broke down. He had yet another season left on his contract with the Bavarian outfit.
He’ll now be a part of a staff coached by Xavi Hernández that relied on Aubameyang and Ferran Torres for its targets after they joined final winter as Depay was injured and misplaced his beginning job as a striker. He can have Spain’s younger and gifted midfielders Pedri González and Gavi Páez to set him up.
Now, with a veteran like Lewandowski quickly to be on board, the membership is clearly betting on successful titles once more within the brief time period. Final season, Barcelona completed a distant second in Spain to Madrid and didn’t advance past the Champions League group section.
The sale permits Bayern to money in on a participant turning 34 subsequent month who would have turn into a free agent subsequent 12 months and had made clear his want to depart.
If the payment is confirmed, it will be a club-record sale payment for Bayern, exceeding the 40 million euros the German champion acquired from Juventus for Douglas Costa in 2018.
