“A few months after Robert Kucharski’s departure, Borussia boss Hans-Joachim Watzke met by chance in Hamburg. Borussia was at the bottom by then. The rematch was about to begin with Juergen Klopp announcing that he would be leaving Dortmund after the season. He was no longer able to do so. motivate the players of Borussia as before. ”Watzke smiled as he greeted Kucharski.
– Congratulations. You knew when to escape from my ship – described those events Paweł Wilkowicz in the book “Niensycony”.
Although she promised not to hinder the transfer of Lewandowski’s contract in the last year, she did not let the Pole go anywhere. This, in a way, made the events on the Dortmund-Munich line, but also Madrid, to go down in football history.
Left was angry at Bayern
It was a hostile transfer. In addition, at the beginning full of negative emotions. Most of them in 2013 – obviously – were in Dortmund. It was the media there that attacked Lewandowski and his manager Cezary Kucharski, who did not hide that the Pole wanted to leave BVB. The fans could not come to terms with this fact at first. That is why Kucharski wanted to go to a media exchange then. After all, it was Borussia who did not keep its promise. Even a few good months earlier, its activists from Watzke were reassuring that with a good offer, i.e. one for EUR 28 million, they would sell a Pole.
They knew Bayern wanted it. Bavarians reported to Kucharski in 2012. After his first season in the Bundesliga, the Pole was on the podium in the classification of shooters in the following ones. In addition, he rubbed the Bavarians’ noses in the final of the German Cup in 2012. . Since the Munich activists are always trying to get the best players from the league together, that’s what they wanted to do back then. It was then that declarations were made that Bayern wants Lewandowski and Lewandowski wants Bayern, it was the first promise of a common future.
However, when the Bavarians bought Mario Goetze from BVB, Dortmund lost ground under his feet. Its activists decided that they could not lose the Polish super sniper in such a situation. They gave a clear signal that Lewy would not go anywhere in the summer of 2013, even at the cost of breaking his promise. The Pole had digested this situation for a long time. He was nervous both at BVB and at Bayern. At the Bavarians for having played the whole action badly, that they announced Goetze before they concluded his contract with BVB.
Full-time goals and “huge bonuses”
The end of the confusion was that Lewy fulfilled his contract with BVB to the end. However, he gained respect from the fans, because he did not lack the will, fight, determination and further goals until the end of the season. He scored exactly 20 of them and even became the top scorer in the Bundesliga. He was properly motivated to do so.
– During this last year in BVB, we renegotiated Robert’s contract. He received very good bonuses for these goals then – Kucharski admits to us now, suggesting that it was a form of compensation for Borussia for blocking the transfer.
The 2013/14 season, however, was not calm for Lewy, or at least a lot was happening around him in the club offices at that time. And those in Munich and Dortmund and Madrid, but also everywhere in Europe: in London (Chelsea and Arsenal) or Manchester (United and City). The pulse of the Polish side picked up only when Real Madrid made a dream offer. The club that. It was an offer of sports and financial dreams. In “Niensyconym”, Wilkowicz reveals that the November proposal of the Królewski family provided the Pole with EUR 81 million in 6 years, and it was then a club that confidently won the Champions League and won the most valuable cup in 2014. Just like he won it three times in four consecutive turns. The magic of Real and the dreams of youth were also at work. All this meant that although Kucharski and Lewandowski were right with Bayern, Madrid sparkled and sparkled with a thousand colors, confusing their heads. The financial offer from Spain was also better than the one from Bavaria. In the scale of these 6 years, by some 20 million euros!
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Struggling with thoughts and making a promise
Kucharski communicated this to the Bayern authorities. They reluctantly but slightly improved their last proposal. And so it was much lower than the Spanish one. Apparently, Lewandowski struggled with his thoughts for a long time. – It took him about six months, especially since BVB did everything to sell it to Madrid, and not return it to Munich, six months before the end of the contract – Kucharski reminds us now. He adds that from the perspective of the years, no one doubts that this choice was the right one, both in terms of sports and finance. The promise made to Bayern several months earlier was fulfilled, Besides, this plan always seems to be valid. After probably the last New Year’s dilemmas, on January 4, 2014, Lewandowski appeared in the Munich office of Dr. Hans-Wilhelm Mueller. The visit to one of the best orthopedists in Europe began on Saturday afternoon and lasted 4 and a half hours. It was accompanied by great interest from paparazzi and journalists. After 18.00, the Pole left the clinic in a hurry, without providing any information to the media camped on the street. Finally after 7 p.m. The Pole officially became a Bayern player on July 1 and it was then that he put on his jersey for the first time.
“I realized what we did here”
Lewandowski played the last match in Dortmund in the yellow jersey on May 10. The fans said goodbye to him standing up and chanted his name. There were flowers, a framed picture and tears.
– You were even touched – says Ania.
– I see. As for me, I was touched. Then I realized what we had done here. In Lech I was holding back my tears during the last match, I was also deeply moved. But here in Dortmund, there was something else. I was leaving for Bayern, which everyone hates. As if I were leaving Lech to Legia. But tens of thousands of people chanted my name. I am proud of it “- Lewy recalled in” Insatiable “.
Since then, in Bayern, the Pole has won 7 German championships, 3 national cups, 5 super cups, and the European Super Cup and the Club World Cup. He also became FIFA 2020 Footballer of the Year and Golden Boot Winner for the 2020/2021 season. In total, he scored 324 goals for the club in all competitions (in 359 games), won 5 goalscorer titles and broke the goal record in one Bundesliga season, which belonged to Gerd Mueller since 1972. Lewandowski has a contract in Munich valid until June 2023. Talks about its extension are currently underway.
Source: Sport
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