“Could Robert Lewandowski’s Struggles Bring Him Back to FC Bayern?”

Robert Lewandowski is sharply criticized and is in a low form. FC Bayern, on the other hand, is in the biggest crisis for many years. Does this bring both sides back together?

The scene was indicative of Robert Lewandowski’s current condition at FC Barcelona. In the top game against Atletico Madrid, he ran alone towards the opposing goalkeeper who had rushed far out. But instead of playing the ball with a simple cross pass to teammate Raphinha, the Pole shot it himself – and missed the goal by a wide margin.

Under normal circumstances, the pass to the team-mate would have been a matter of form for Lewandowski. Or he would have finished in such a way that the ball lands in the goal. But a rare goal drought is visibly gnawing at Lewandowski’s self-image. The top scorer has only scored in one of his last ten competitive games: A brace against bottom Elche on April 1st. Although he is still the top scorer in Spain with 17 goals this season, Barca bosses are becoming restless and dissatisfied with Lewandowski.

Recently, reports from Spain made the rounds that Lewandowski could even leave Barcelona after just one season and despite a contract until 2026. The reasons should not only be of a sporting nature, but above all financial. Because Barça is working hard on the return of Lionel Messi. You need financial leeway for this, because you cannot exceed the salary cap that applies in Spain. Thus, top earner Lewandowski (allegedly around 50 million euros net for four years) automatically becomes a candidate for sale. Despite his own confessions of how comfortable he feels in Barcelona.

Does this of all things bring FC Bayern back into play? The club that let Lewandowski go with a heavy heart and for a fee of 45 million euros last year? Despite the “Basta” statement by club boss Oliver Kahn. What may seem absurd at first glance could make sense for all sides at second glance.

Lewandowski would get the necessary recognition from the club and fans. He would still have that in Munich, despite his provoked departure last summer. Barcelona would have financial leeway to be able to realize the dream of Messi’s return, and FC Bayern would have solved its striker problem at once. Not in the long term, after all, Lewandowski is already 34, but immediately and in the highest possible quality. And above all at an affordable price.

After the Champions League defeat against Manchester City, CEO Oliver Kahn spoke about the problem in the center forward position: “This position is not so easy to fill. You can’t just find a number nine like Robert Lewandowski somewhere.” That is also a question of price. “How many nines are there at the level of Robert Lewandowski? There aren’t many. And if that’s in price regions that are extremely high.”

Just like with city attacker Erling Haaland, who was rebuffed last summer despite the greatest (financial) efforts. The name Harry Kane has also been mentioned more often in Munich, but the Englishman in the service of Tottenham would also fall into the price range that Kahn thinks: extremely high. Just like the also traded Randal Kolo Muani (Frankfurt) or Victor Osimhen (Naples). Lewandowski, on the other hand, would be affordable.

But would the world footballer from 2020 and 2021 even want to go back to Munich? In any case, his wife Anna, who works as a fitness and nutrition influencer with over five million Instagram followers, pushed the move to Spain last year. The couple have two daughters and live together in Castelldefels, a posh suburb of Barcelona, ​​and by all accounts feel pretty comfortable there.