FC Bayern is in trouble: The most aggressive Lewandowski ever

FC Bayern vehemently insists that striker Robert Lewandowski fulfill his contract with the record champions.

FC Bayern is in trouble: The most aggressive Lewandowski ever

FC Bayern vehemently insists that striker Robert Lewandowski fulfill his contract with the record champions. This contradicts the Polish goal phenomenon. He wants to leave the club more urgently than ever before. This is a massive problem for Munich.

Robert Lewandowski may be a loner, an egotist in the team, an unapproachable soccer star. But what he has not been so far: an acute problem. This Monday, however, things changed abruptly. Aggressive as never before, he ended the chapter "FC Bayern" for himself with a merciless verbal chatter. A completely different level of escalation than the eternal flirtation of change in the past. During a media round with the Polish national team, he announced that his time with the record champions was over, that he could no longer imagine working well together after the incidents of the past few months and that a transfer this summer would be the best solution for both sides. The fact that he garnished his words with "as of now" was lost in the general panic.

For weeks, the Pole and his advisor Pini Zahavi have been doing absolutely nothing to get the striker away from Munich. And they don't care about any vehemence of the club greats from Munich. She is just as uninterested in a "Basta" from boss Oliver Kahn as a "Lewandowski stays" from Honorary President Uli Hoeneß. And the striker probably doesn't care at all how Kahn reacts to his explosive announcements. The well-known to Sport1: "I can't tell you why Robert chose this path. Such statements in public don't get anyone anywhere. Robert became world footballer here twice in a row - I think he should know what he has at Bayern. "

In fact, nothing has changed in the situation: the 33-year-old has a contract until the summer of next year. If he runs his line through Bayern, the striker can be stubborn, but he can't go away. That is the harsh reality of an official working paper.

But nobody should be interested in this factual level. Because the bitingness with which the attacker now appears is extremely dangerous for the record champions. The mood on Säbener Straße is already extremely tense. The fact that Corentin Tolisso will leave the club, as announced on Monday, is the smallest problem. With Niklas Süle, Munich have already lost their defense chief to competitor Borussia Dortmund. Serge Gnabry does not want to extend his contract, which expires in 2023. And now Lewandowski, the Tor guarantee, the life insurance. Again and again the debate narrows down to the topic of appreciation.

Although Hoeneß recently told RTL/ntv that 99 percent of this topic is defined by the euro, something seems to be different in Munich than with the competition. Zahavi, the piranha adviser - as he was called in Hoeneß during the failed negotiations with David Alaba - told the "Bild" newspaper a few days ago: "No one cares about the money here, neither Robert nor me. He feels since Months not respected by those responsible, that's the truth. FC Bayern didn't lose the player Lewandowski, but the person Robert." Kahn also said something about appreciation, which is "not a one-way street".

The background to the story should be that the people of Munich should have tried to get Dortmund's Erling Haaland. The Norwegian storm stunner is moving to Manchester City thanks to an opt-out clause. "Robert is a very intelligent person, not just the best striker in the world. He knows exactly what's going on around him and what Bayern had planned. So Robert knew all along that Bayern wanted to replace him with Haaland. Erling's father even confirmed it, telling him in a personal conversation some time ago: 'My son comes to FC Bayern for 50 percent.' The football world is big, but there are no secrets." Why is the player and his side so aggressive now? They are on the defensive, because they do not have sovereignty over their actions.

In Munich, the alarm should ring louder than ever. Especially with sports director Hasan Salihamidžić, who has been attacked more and more violently in recent weeks. There were whistles from their own fans at the championship celebrations, and some media reported that a premature separation of the club from its squad builder is no longer an impossible scenario. For the sports director, the situation around Lewandowski can hardly be resolved. If he were to lose the forward without coming up with a top replacement (is that even still on the market?), he'd be counting himself heavily.

Could Liverpool Sadio Mané's upcoming commitment calm things down? Questionable. The Senegalese is more of a winger than a centre-forward. He would be a replacement, maybe even an upgrade for the last fickle Gnabry. And besides, there's no guarantee he'll do as well in the Bundesliga as he does in the Premier League. And certainly there is no guarantee that he will guarantee FC Bayern as many goals as his, well, predecessor?!

And another problem lurks: Contrary to Kahn's statements that they have plans B, C and D, the Munich team obviously has no replacement for Lewandowski in mind. A plan that has been missed for a long time, which now means that releasing clubs can drive up the prices for potential newcomers for the Munich team, who are under economic pressure.

But what happens when Salihamidžić actually punches through the club "Basta" when he holds Lewandowski against all odds? Nobody can predict that. A look at Dortmund shows how bad something like this can end, there Ousmane Dembélé once went on strike in the most embarrassing way to FC Barcelona. Lewandowski would also like to move there. It's different at Eintracht Frankfurt: Filip Kostic gave in at the beginning of the season and became a big Europa League hero. A 50:50 game for FC Bayern, a high-risk one.