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Robert Lewandowski raises big expectations at Barcelona
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Robert Lewandowski's move from FC Bayern Munich to FC Barcelona has been a done deal since Saturday, even if the agreements have only been made verbally, according to Bayern board member Oliver Kahn. While an era is ending in Munich after eight years, the Spanish media in Barcelona are hoping for a new one. In Poland, meanwhile, people look back on the time in Munich.
SPAIN
»Marca:«
»A superstar for the league.
Lewandowski is now a Barça player.
Xavi has an insatiable striker available for his project.
With Lewandowski, a striker comes to Barça who makes the difference.
That's exactly what Xavi needs on a national and international level.
His goal quotas at Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich are the guarantee for goals.
In the tense situation of the past few days, Barça and Bayern Munich were forced to come to an agreement on the transfer."
»AS:«
»Lewandowski triggers euphoria among Barça fans.
With Lewandowski's signing, Barça regained its status as a world club.
The transfer dragged on for a long time, and in the end the Polish national striker's wish to change prevailed.
Lewandowski arrives at Barcelona after breaking all sorts of records.
With Lewandowski's move, goals are guaranteed for FC Barcelona."
»Sport:«
»"I'm very happy" – Lewandowski is upset after announcing his move to Barça.
Lewandowski has arrived in the Xavi universe.
The Pole is the club's mega transfer and opens up many opportunities for the coach in the targeted three-man attack.
Lewandowski is sort of a 'Benjamin Button' because of his diet, you get the feeling he's getting better every year.
Lewandowski wants to expand his collection of titles in Barcelona.
With the change, a lifelong dream of the Pole comes true.
FC Barcelona's transfer offensive is truly spectacular, this Barça can win anything.
The departure is a bitter loss for Bavaria.”
»El Mundo Deportivo:«
»The signing of Lewandowski is driving Barça fans crazy.
Lewandowski insisted on the change, there was no discussion for him.
Last season he scored 35 league goals alone, seven more than Barça's top three goalscorers Memphis Depay (12), Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (10) and Luuk de Jong (6) combined.
It is the most spectacular international transfer on the market so far.«
POLAND
»Onet.pl«
: »For two months it was said repeatedly that Robert Lewandowski was going nowhere, that he would stay at Bayern Munich, that he had to fulfill his contract, which ran until the end of June 2023.
On TV, in press releases, on the club's official website.
(The German managers) were convinced that if they said so, it would be so.
But the Polish striker showed the Germans that they can't dictate terms to him.
Robert Lewandowski wanted to get away and achieved his goal.
Bayern Munich wanted to keep him, but the bosses just made a fool of themselves."
»TVP-Info«:
»The 33-year-old Lewandowski is one of the best and most effective footballers of the last decade.
He has been playing in the Bundesliga since 2010 – with Borussia Dortmund and Bayern.
He was German champion ten times, eight times in the colors of Bayern, won the German Cup four times, triumphed with Bayern in the Champions League in 2020 and then at the Club World Cup.
Overall, he was top scorer in the Bundesliga seven times, scoring 312 goals in 384 games.
This makes him the second best goalscorer in history after the legendary Gerd Müller.«
»TVN 24«:
»Robert Lewandowski is and will remain a Bayern legend.
The transfer to Barcelona and the circumstances surrounding it will not change that.
In his own words, something had gone out of the captain of the Polish national team, he needed new emotions in his life again, but his contribution to the gigantic successes of Bayern should not be underestimated.
In those eight years he won everything he could win.
(...) Lewandowski came to Munich in the summer of 2014.
Bayern didn't pay a single zloty for him as his contract with Borussia Dortmund had just expired.
Even then it was clear that the change would be worthwhile for Bayern, but what the Pole did in their colors exceeded even the most optimistic expectations.”
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