FC Barcelona striker, Robert Lewandowski would have received an order to no longer score by his management, at the end of the 2022-2023 season.
While looking for a big scorer, FC Barcelona opened its doors to Robert Lewandowski. The Polish center forward left Bayern Munich in the summer of 2022 for a check for 45 million euros. But a financial clause existed in this contract. And this led to a strange request from Barça to its player a few months later. Robert Lewandowski was ordered to stop scoring goals.
The story told in the book titled
“Lewandowski. The real »new biography of the Polish footballer written by Sebastian Staszewski, was relayed this Wednesday by Marca. According to this story, the leaders of FC Barcelona summoned Robert Lewandowski when there were only two days of the championship left to play during the 2022-2023 season. The Blaugrana were mathematically already champions while the Pole topped the scorers’ ranking with twenty-three goals.
The footballer allegedly entered a meeting room. There would be “immediately felt a tense atmosphere”. Several members of the board of directors were already present when he arrived, including president Joan Laporta. “Some had red faces, not from sunburn, but from shame”it is told. One of them then spoke to Robert Lewandowski.
“Robert, you need to stop scoring goals in the last two games. »
Barça did not want to pay the bonus
The reason for this request which ” surprised “
a Robert Lewandowski to whom we had no “never asked for such a thing”would be simple, according to the author:
“Money. (…) This was the bonus of 2.5 million euros which appeared in the contract between Barcelona and Bayern. » To put it simply, if Lewandowski scored twenty-five goals, then Barça would immediately have to pay this amount to the German club.
And given the state of the club’s finances for several seasons, the slightest saving should not be overlooked. In the end, and whether or not he chose to do so voluntarily, Robert Lewandowski did not score in the last two days of La Liga that season. Despite everything, he finished top scorer ahead of Karim Benzema.
