Hoeneß: "It's all about coal": Oliver Kahn with a cracking Lewandowski announcement

Further fuss about Robert Lewandowski.

Hoeneß: "It's all about coal": Oliver Kahn with a cracking Lewandowski announcement

Further fuss about Robert Lewandowski. As is well known, he wants to leave record champions Bayern Munich. The CEO Oliver Kahn has a word of power and Honorary President Uli Hoeneß has a guess. Is it "just about the coal"? The behavior of the player does not necessarily indicate this.

Top scorer Robert Lewandowski stays with Bayern Munich. At least that's how Bayern boss Oliver Kahn sees it, who commented on Poland's willingness to change during the championship celebrations at Munich's Marienplatz. With a view to the world footballer's contract, which runs until the summer of 2023, Kahn spoke a word of power on Bavarian television: "He will fulfill this contract - basta!"

The chairman of the board exuded a certain composure and referred to Lewandowski's desire to change clubs, which recurred at regular intervals. "The whole fuss, all this alarmism, we know that from the past," said Kahn: "It doesn't give us a headache." In general, there is "no player who is bigger than the club".

The Causa Lewandowski is the last and perhaps the biggest drama of the past Bayern season. Ever since he failed at the Ballon d'Or, the Pole has been thinking about saying goodbye to Säbener Strasse. There he achieved everything. He broke records and racked up titles, rose to become the top earner, yet never became the darling of the masses. Not national and not international. Something Lewandowski has to nibble on.

The best striker, who has never played in England or Spain, wants to change that in the autumn of his career and has been flirting with FC Barcelona for a long time, after having always dreamed of Real Madrid in the previous years. But there is currently no position for him there. He either rejected a contract offer from FC Bayern Munich (that's what Bayern Munich say) or never received it anyway (that's what Lewandowski says) and so his departure is certain by summer 2023 at the latest. Only at the age of 34 would the captain of the Polish national team prefer to disappear this summer.

"It's quite possible that it was my last game for Bayern. We want to find the best solution for me and the club," Lewandowski said after the 2-2 win in Wolfsburg at Viaplay Sport Polska. Even when winning the championship title against Dortmund and handing over the championship trophy against Stuttgart last week, the behavior of the 33-year-old was suspiciously reminiscent of a farewell.

But Bayern President Herbert Hainer also insisted on the fulfillment of the contract at Sport1, but offered a way out. "It may well be that both sides agree on that," he said, addressing Bayern's major problem. "There is no substitute for a world-class player like Robert Lewandowski," said Hainer. But one way or another, a replacement is needed. Either this summer or next summer and that's exactly what seems to be the problem at the moment. There is still no successor for the Pole, only rumors about Christopher Nkunku, Patrik Schick, Sebastien Haller, who is also negotiating with Borussia Dortmund, the Chelsea players Romelu Lukaku and Timo Werner or, more recently, Sasa Kalajdzic from VfB Stuttgart.

Lewandowski also let his contract expire when he switched from Borussia Dortmund to Bayern Munich. BVB didn't want to lose their top player prematurely and even increased his salary for the 2013/2014 season. The striker thanked the club with the top scorer and qualification for the Champions League.

"Robert is a super professional who proved back then that he had an excellent performance for a whole year in Dortmund, although he had already announced that he was going to Bayern Munich. And I'm assuming that's the case now, too," recalled then Bavaria's honorary president Uli Hoeneß on Bayerischer Rundfunk and knew in a media round: "It's also clear: It's all about coal, nothing else. You can't solve the problem with a dinner at Tegernsee."

Bayern officials are not at all afraid of a slump like BVB experienced in 2014 after Lewandowski's departure. The competition shouldn't calculate anything in the next season either, said Kahn, standing on the town hall balcony. He exclaimed: "You can forget about these hopes. We'll attack again next season."


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