Julian Nagelsmann sat at his mother’s day at his mother on the terrace. With the urgent topics of FC Bayern, the coach of the Munich also deals in his free time.
And so Nagelsmann telephoned Oliver Kahn on Thursday and also discussed cadres ideas. “The exchange was very good until date,” praised Bayern coach.
Kahn wants by Nagelsmann “have a picture of what the coach thinks.” The attitude of the coaches came to Robert Lewandowski, which came to Robert Lewandowski in the summer of RB Leipzig, to which the FC Barcelona should be sharp, is clear at any rate. “Of course I would like to keep him,” Insured Nagelsmann. Lewandowski is an “extremely important player, very important goalkeeper”.
Lewandowski again the subject of speculation
Lewandowski has become the subject of speculation again. This is also related to the contract of the 33-year-old, which expires in the summer of 2023. This applies to the German football record champion to the previous other leaders Manuel Neuer (36) and Thomas Müller (32). In times of release freedom for the end of the contract, such maturities are ensured quickly for many rumors.
Before the Champions League quarter-final against the Spanish Europa League winner FC Villarreal, the Polish television channel “TVP” reported that Lewandowski München’s Board Chief Kahn has already informed about his farewell desire and wool to FC Barcelona.
“Apparently there is a competition out there, who brings the biggest Nonsense story about Robert Lewandowski,” said the former world-class goalkeeper at “Amazon Prime Video” shortly before 1: 1 on Tuesday. Kahn referred to the valid contract with the six-time Bundesliga scorer. And besides, the club “does not have a change from a player who makes every season between 30 and 40 goals,” insisted the board boss. “If there is something to report, then we do that too.”
“Listen for the first time”
Open contract questions always have Knatsch potential. Sometimes more sometimes less. When Lewandowski was addressed at the end of February after the 1-0 in the Bundesliga at Eintracht Frankfurt in the TV channel “Sky” that Lewandowskis council had announced Hasan Salihamidzic to keep him considered, replied the world footballer, smiling, “I hear that for the first time Times.” Someone at his age and with his experience, however, go “very quiet” with such things. So medial everything is watched exactly, that Lewandowski’s wife Anna reported Via Instagram to learn Spanish.
Lewandowski knows this contract situation. Before he had extended early in August 2019 at FC Bayern for two years until the end of June 2023, the attacker took the attacker several times with a change to Spain. At that time, the possible destination was called Real Madrid, Lewandowski wanted to fulfill the title dream in the Champions League. He managed that too. 2020 with FC Bayern.
Kahn has given the future of Lewandowski, new and Müller a “high priority”. Contract negotiations you can not “rule shortly in the past,” he noticed at the end of March. Even the players finally have certain ideas.
Munich top earner
Lewandowski counts like new and Müller to the top earners in the Munich squad. Another extension beyond 2023 is also a cost issue. Even with so deserved players who have shaped a golden era and still deliver top performances.
“We have to look for our quality in the team and the economic component,” Salihamidzic had been given to concerns and lined with a view of two years Corona Pandemic: “We have a difficult phase, financially.”
Of course, goalie machine Lewandowski could ask himself the question of which financial and athletic overall package could offer him – but for years about his circumstances – FC Barcelona.
“He knows what he has on FC Bayern. We as FC Bayern also know what we have at him. Now we wait completely relaxed,” Kahn said about Lewandowski, who has been moving from Borussia Dortmund in summer 2014 in the summer of 2014 370 competitions incredible 341 goals for FC Bayern has achieved.
Nagelsmann does not have the impression that this exceptional door wants to go away. “In the conversations, he already seems that he would like to stay,” said the Munich coach before the guest match on Sunday at Arminia Bielefeld and referred to football-specific conversations with Lewandowski. But you could “not look full of my head,” said Nagelsmann. It is also a “piece far normal that one always thinks about his future”. Kahn and Salihamidzic are in exchange with Lewandowski.