Nothing in the transfer market raises the voice of Kylian Mbappe’s move to Real Madrid except the transfer of Robert Lewandowski to Barcelona.
If the deal takes place, it will be the most important and prominent in the Barcelona transfer market in the attack line since the signing of Luis Suarez from Liverpool.
Neither Griezmann nor Coutinho nor Dembele have the same technical value, but Lewandowski’s choice carries a lot of question marks. Was the choice of the Bayern Munich star correct?!
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This is what we will try to understand in the coming lines by reviewing some facts about the two teams, the player’s situation and the reasons for his desire to join the Catalan team.
Bayern is more stable
There is no doubt that Bayern Munich has been one of the most stable teams in the old continent since the Corona pandemic began to invade the world.
The German club maintained its economic position without bleeding losses to its coffers, and passed to the safety of its team.
On the technical level, it may have regressed a little after the departure of Hans Flick, but it is still the best team in Germany without a doubt and among the best in Europe.
This situation will not be found by Lewandowski in any European team at the present time, except for a few, perhaps including the trio of Paris Saint-Germain, Manchester City and Liverpool, but not Barcelona.
An unfavorable situation in Barcelona
In complete contrast to Bayern Munich there is Barcelona as between East and West, absolute good and absolute evil, heaven and fire, night and day.
The Catalan club was already suffering from a lot of debt and financial problems before even the Corona pandemic, and its biggest problem of all was the salary bill for the first football team.
Barcelona was burdened with financial problems that made the arrival of the Corona pandemic for the administration as the end of the world for humans, what we saw of panic and misbehavior over the period of Josep Maria Bartomeu’s leadership of the club compared to what happened at the time of the emerging virus is a drop in the sea.
These problems are still being paid by Barcelona to this day, and will continue to pay that price for years to come. It seems, there is no magic solution, as current president Joan Laporta has repeatedly emphasized.
The Catalan club lost Lionel Messi because of that crisis and is about to lose Frenkie de Jong, as he lost one of the most important deals of the new century for Manchester City, which recently included Erling Haaland.
No one knows whether the club will soon wake up from the aftermath of these crises, whether at the economic or sporting level or not.
Golden ball in mind
Lewandowski’s calculations may not have anything to do with the material affairs of both teams in any way, and that’s fine for him.
The Polish star has clear and specific goals. First, Lewandowski wants to get the Ballon d’Or. No matter how much he gets the FIFA award for the best player in the world, he wants to get the Ballon d’Or.
The Polish star was and still is among the best strikers in the world, and the only one so far next to Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo who scores 40 goals or more in each season, even the last duo in this season for the usual numbers for them and he did not.
Bayern Munich’s top scorer is a dream and he still dreams of the Golden Ball, and he believes that the only way to achieve it is by playing for one of Spain’s greats, Barcelona or Real Madrid.
At the present time, and because Barcelona suffers from the absence of the star and scorer, Lewandowski believes that he will be the most prominent star there, with his technical capabilities, history and experience.
Leave the comfort zone
In working life, when an offer comes to you from another place of work, you always find yourself at a loss, even if that offer is better on many levels, you find it difficult to leave a place that influenced you and gave it so much of your time.
So what is the case when the offer is less or not with the same advantages as the place you are already in?!
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Lewandowski could leave his comfort zone at Bayern Munich for new challenges at Barcelona, and that deserves a lot of respect.
bottom line
Robert Lewandowski decided to leave his comfort zone to take on a new challenge at the end of his football career in which he tries to fulfill his dream of winning the Ballon d’Or.
The conditions of the Catalan club may not be the best compared to Bayern Munich, but Lewandowski’s position and his desire to achieve the Golden Ball through a team that feels the way back to competitions again is something that deserves all respect.
In the end, if he succeeds in achieving what he wants and leads Barcelona to return to victories again and the podiums, he will enter the history of the Catalan club and win the Golden Ball at most, and if he does not do that, this will not detract from his great career anything, especially that he will try in a place that feels the way back to major competitions, He has a lot of problems already, so the blame won’t be great.