Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 9:21 PM• Rian Rosendaal • Last update: 21:28

Chairman of the board Oliver Kahn is sure: Robert Lewandowski will also play in the shirt of Bayern Munich next season. The former goalkeeper refuses to say goodbye to a striker who takes care of the majority of the production of the superpower. In addition, Bayern does not immediately have an adequate replacement in house. Lewandowski, who is incarcerated until mid-2023, has been linked with a transfer to Barcelona for some time.

“We will certainly have him with us for another season,” Kahn said in a conversation with us on Tuesday evening before the Champions League match between Bayern and Villarreal. Prime Video† “We are not so crazy that we start discussing a player who scores between 30 and 40 goals for us every season.” According to various German media, Lewandowski can only leave if Bayern find a suitable successor. Reportedly, the club management is willing to let him enter his last contract year, at the risk that he will walk out for free in a year.

The usually well-informed Spanish journalist Gerard Romero reported on Tuesday that Barcelona has informed Lewandowski’s agent that they must take the initiative themselves to effect a transfer to the Catalans. On Monday, the Polish TVP Sports reported that the 33-year-old striker had already reached a verbal agreement with ‘Barca and has also submitted a transfer request to Bayern, but these rumors were dispelled by BILD soon hit the head.

The interest of Barcelona in Lewandowski, on the other hand, can be called very concrete, according to Romero. The Catalans are said to have told Pini Zahavi, the Polish goal-scoring machine’s agent, that they are willing to pay a maximum transfer fee of €25 to €30 million, given the club’s current economic situation.

‘s journalist RAC1 notes that a transfer is quite complicated. Lewandowski is still with Bayern until mid-2023. A verbal agreement between Barcelona and the striker should not pose a problem, but it is more than likely that der Rekordmeister will charge a high asking price. This is why Barca would like to see Lewandowski announce his intentions to leave to the Bavarian club in order to lower the transfer fee.