"Concord" is not the best word to describe the relationship between FC Barcelona and Bayern Munich after this tumultuous summer. The azulgrana team took the franchise player from the German team, their second all-time top scorer and the spearhead of the project for almost the entire last decade. Julian Nagelsmann, Bavarian coach, assured that Barça was "the only club in the world that has no money, but can buy any player". Joan Laporta, Blaugrana president, subtracted saying that "in Nagelsmann's words there is ignorance". The person responsible, directly or indirectly, for this tension is Robert Lewandowski. He has already achieved his goal, a change of scenery, and now he wants to say goodbye as he really deserves from the entity in which he became a legend.
According to the German media outlet Bild, the Polish striker traveled to Munich last Monday after arriving from the US tour in which he joined Xavi Hernández. There, on North American soil, he attended the ESPN microphones adding fuel to the fire. "Everything that happened in the last few weeks before I left Bayern was political," he said, "the club tried to find an argument to justify my sale, because it was difficult to explain. The fans and I had to accept this, though a lot of untrue nonsense was said about me." Given these statements, Hasan Salihamidzic, Bayern's sports director, was incredulous. "I still cannot understand what he has been saying in recent days," he confessed in statements collected by Marca.
Now he is in Bavarian territory with the intention of calming things down and closing the most important chapter of his sports career in the best possible way. According to Bild, the Pole went to his home in Munich to finish collecting his belongings and later visited the Allianz Arena, the stadium where the team plays its home games, to be photographed with all the trophies won during the eight years in which who wore that shirt. In this way, the club will be able to thank him with due honors for his service and professionalism during this successful stage through social networks; in the same way that he will have the opportunity to properly say goodbye to the fans who sang his 344 goals.
In addition, Lewandowski visited Säbener Strasse, Bayern's sports city, on Tuesday to calmly say goodbye to all his former teammates and members of the club's technical team. He had already been with them after the officialization of his principle agreement with Barça, but events rushed rapidly and he did not have as much time as he would like. He also had the opportunity to give explanations to the disgruntled Nagelsmann, Salihamidzic and company for his recent statements. Upon his departure, he attended to Sky: "It was sad. I will always be grateful for what I have earned and lived here. I thanked everyone for what they did for me and gave them gifts. It was an emotional and difficult moment for me," he confessed.
The Polish striker wants to definitively seal the door with his past in the Bundesliga. A glorious era, in which he emerged as one of the best scorers so far this century and in which he dominated the football of an entire country with an iron fist. He conquered the salad bowl of the German League every year he wore the Bayern shirt, in addition to achieving the continental success he longed for, with the conquest of the Champions League in 2020. He will have four seasons ahead of him with Barça in which to show that, About to turn 34, he maintains his voracity and the instinct in front of goal that has accompanied him since his time at Legia Warsaw and Lech Poznan.
