It’s finally here, the big day: Robert Lewandowski is expected back at FC Bayern this Tuesday for a medical examination before starting training on Wednesday. You can imagine how annoying such a routine health check is for the striker: With four washboard abs photos on Instagram within the past two and a half weeks, he has already sufficiently informed the world about his fitness status.
According to everything that has allegedly been rumored about Lewandowski’s advisors, surroundings and hairdressers or physiotherapists in the corners of the Internet, the world footballer will still appear and thus politely refrain from trying to strike his immediate transfer to FC Barcelona force.
This gesture by the 33-year-old cannot be overestimated. Because it’s not just that his employer is annoying him with the negotiating tactic of apparently continuing to ignore an offer from Barcelona, even though Barca President Joan Laporta even called this offer “reasonable”. No, now there is also a rumor in the world that cannot be interpreted otherwise than as a deliberate provocation towards Lewandowski.
No jokes with names, no name jokes, that’s an old rule that everyone knows. That’s why it can only be serious: After Leroy Sané, who has been playing at Bayern since 2020 and Sadio Mané as the king’s transfer in 2022, a report by the table football according to the summer of 2023, i.e. after Lewandowski’s contract expires, a commitment from the British Harry Kane a mind game in the hallways on Säbener Straße.
No other conclusion is therefore more obvious than this: The German record champions are obviously working on a new brand for their attack. “RL9”, really no fan can see that anymore, it’s worn out, like the goal celebration with two clenched fists and a wink at the camera. “Sane, Mane, Kane!” – this is what the future looks like.
Yes, it’s just a “cold war” between the negotiating parties that is heading for its “climax”, at least that’s how the newspaper put it soberly Sports described from Barcelona. One can only hope that both clubs will soon be too stupid, that they have enough, no more harassment, instead a white flag. Then there might even be de Ligt at the end of the tunnel for FC Bayern.