- Barça continues to move for the Polish striker but it does not scare them that Bayern Munich ask for 60 million upfront
Barça continues to have Robert Lewandowski (33 years old) as its main market target for next season. The Polish striker is a decisive piece according to Xavi to give the team the goal that will make it compete with the greatest both in regular championships such as LaLiga and in Cup or Champions League qualifiers.
An approach that he shares with the director of football, Mateu Alemany , and with the president Joan Laporta , who also sees in Lewandowski a powerful media magnet to return Barça to the first step of world popularity after having suffered powerful losses in a couple of campaigns of Leo Messi ,Antoine Griezmann and Luis Suárez , very powerful and high-level footballers.
However, the clear will of Barça to go without cracks for the Polish striker of Bayern Munich collides with two very firm barriers.
On the one hand, the obstructionist position of the Bavarian club, which publicly does not stop saying that his crack has one more year on his contract and that he is counting on him to start the preseason.
On the other hand, he slips to some medium like ‘Sky Sports’ that he would be willing to sell, but for 60 million euros, a prohibitive price for a player who will turn 34 in August.
The other barrier with which FC Barcelona finds itself is internal. And it is that according to the forecasts of those who rule at the sporting level in the club, it is necessary to activate more ‘levers’ apart from the one that will fall today from television rights so that the margin of maneuver with Lewandowski is not so limited.
Today, even the most optimistic estimate a 30-35 million investment cap for the Pole, given that his salary for three years must be added to that. And of course, that in the eyes of Bayern does not seem to be enough.
Therefore, Barça is forced to sell more assets and fight a huge fight with the German club in which the footballer’s resistance can weigh heavily, as well as his willingness to help Barça at a salary level and even to wear down the entity from Munich with more declarations of detachment or, if necessary, not showing up for the preseason.
This last extreme that both the striker and Barça want to avoid because it breaks certain unwritten rules of market diplomacy between big clubs and because that could further close the position of Bayern , a proud club like few others and with an internal and external environment plagued by former footballers without mincing words and with a tendency to demand a lot from those who rule the club at all times.
Barça would like to have Lewandowski signed before the team goes on the North American tour on July 16, but today there are doubts that this can be done. In any case, there is the conviction that for the Pole you have to go strong, as far as the economy gives, because he has ‘wet’ a lot to force his departure from Bayern and you have to correspond to his effort.
Laporta , just in case, is in contact with Pini Zahavi , who is currently in charge of the Barça club’s operations. That yes, to the agent of ‘ Lewa ‘they have lined up since he freed David Alaba from Bayern .