9 - Robert Lewandowski

ajnotkeith

Senior Member
This is where the discussion gets interesting. Should we put age as a factor on judging players current performances? Or we should judge everyone based on their current role.

This is important not just for old player like Lewandowski, but also for younger ones.

I appreciate Lewa scoring, and I look around Europe top clubs, and I see that just scoring 20 goals (all comp) per season isn't a usual thing for many no 9 in big clubs. Those who are capable of doing it, they don't press that much either. It is usually those who aren't who do this stuff.

Scoring can get underrated at times. Without Lewa we won't be Liga Champions for 6 consecutive years now. He was a good and well calculated signing.

His main issue is off the ball movement is now worse, and his ability to connect and play with his back to goal is worse. Those are serious issues but it feels more like a fatigue thing, hence why Hansi is subbing him more. I think he was stupid to not retire from NT at his age btw..

He can't be a 90 minutes starter, which is an issue tbh. But he is still the one that puts the ball in goals.
I even agree with you, there is a global shortage of top-class strikers. Lewandowski can still be considered top10 or even top5 on paper.

Reliable and proven goalscorers are a thing of rarity at the top level, even look at Mbappe at Real, he is struggling to score consistently.

I highlight his age because I think we are very lucky that a 36 year old striker is performing like this, because his 36 year old version could have been much worse, for now he is still doing great.
 

serghei

Senior Member
Need the tractor back, that's for sure. So his usual time off better not last long, or in plain terms, we cooked.
 

TemporaryFan

Well-known member
For a moment, when Pep was in charge, even his first season in Bayern, one could have thought, that strikers were not needed any more. Lewandowski, Kane, Haaland change the perspective of that.
 

TemporaryFan

Well-known member
Had a spark when you started,
Now you just garbage
You didn't not come here to praise him for it. Now, you are all happy to come here and bitch. Is that a right thing to do?
I don't think so. It makes you one ungrateful bitch and moan troll. Bitch and moan, bitch and moan...like Tony Soprano's wife.

Leave Lewa alone and focus on the management and those who program the club's future. Last time I checked Xavi took Lewa as a part of the reincarnation process. Not a long term solution. So far, he did his part 100%. Not Lewandowski's fault he is that irreplaceable. Thank him for it, or else stfu.
 
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TemporaryFan

Well-known member
How come they contemplate extending his contract?! A club like that want the tractor for another year or two?! Maybe there's nobody else trustworthy or they got no money to buy a proper replacement. Otherwise, what makes you, you all Lewandowski's critics,so sure you more knowledgeable than those at the club's operational level and you see more than they do?

Normally, a player like him would have a special task role, to save the day 15 minutes before the final whizzle blow, but his a regular choice, I know that's part of his contract, but still why was it set up this way, and more importantly, that's not Lewa's fault.
I am 100% confident, he gives 100% his best. His age, physical capacity might be limiters but it was predictable before he was signed up.
I thought he'd be released after 2 years, but he goes the 3rd and at a full swing for that. The bad actors are those who could not find alternative solutions, not Lewandowski himself. Try to put him on a bench for a few matches and see how that works. Maybe selling him in Summer will be not as a remote idea as generally thought. Otherwise, 37 years of age and still FC Barcelona 1st choice striker?! Even I, a loyal fan of his, think of it as insane...Was there anyone else besides Zubizaretta to have ever played as a regular line up at that age at this club?
 

DonAK

President of FC Barcelona
They don't want to extend him. There's an option in his contract that triggers a one-year extension based on appearances.

He'll be out in 2026.
 

TemporaryFan

Well-known member
They don't want to extend him. There's an option in his contract that triggers a one-year extension based on appearances.
OK.
It is still on them. They can't play a victim card. It took two parties to sign off the contract.
It is one convoluted set up...if you ask me and wtf were they thinking preparing it...? Did that Lewa's agent Pini Zahavi put a gun to their head to make them agree?

Whatever the case, maybe they should stop playing him every match. Especially, if it is believed by the actual experts responsible for the squad form and the players' athletic efficiency that Lewa faded and is exhausted and there's no point of playing him.
 

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