9 - Robert Lewandowski

TheStig

Member
I don't disagree with you, but that's how contracts work if you want to sign a player who is both WC (or was) and marketable.

No it doesn't, at least not in Lewa's case. No one bar Laporta was willing to give him a 4 year contract with a huge wage in 2022. He wouldn't get that at Bayern or anywhere else except Saudi. We could offer him 2 years contract and he would probably still accept but we don't do reasonable contracts. It would still be better than anything anyone else wanted to offer at the time. Lewa's contract is almost Bartomeu level madness. The worst thing is that the idiots will even give him a contract to 2027.
 

iniestaGOAT

Senior Member
No it doesn't, at least not in Lewa's case. No one bar Laporta was willing to give him a 4 year contract with a huge wage in 2022. He wouldn't get that at Bayern or anywhere else except Saudi. We could offer him 2 years contract and he would probably still accept but we don't do reasonable contracts. It would still be better than anything anyone else wanted to offer at the time. Lewa's contract is almost Bartomeu level madness. The worst thing is that the idiots will even give him a contract to 2027.

He has earnt to you idiot.. by scoring goals.
If he wins trophies this season he might even end up as club legend
 

TemporaryFan

Well-known member
I also think it was a mistake to take him off, unless there was some indication of him becoming too tired or unable to continue to play. Exactly poachers like him are there to be used to score the last minute goals and he has proven to have done so in the past many times. I wonder if the decision was directed by Flick from the stands or it was a decision by his deputy. Either way his performance was between fair and good. He scored - found himself at the right place and time and was able to do his part in the build up.
As you might have noticed, it is not so east to find a cold blooded substitute, when Ferran missed his chance. But it was not a slam-dunk situation either but somehow one could believe that Lewandowski would have done better, with due proportions preserved ... at least 7 out of 10 would have been goal, with Ferran maybe 3 out of 10.
 

TemporaryFan

Well-known member
Since this is his thread, I also wanted to point out that after years of seeing him play, it occurred to me that he almost never apologizes for his fouls, even though the victims are hurting. Not going into a debate if this is wrong or right, I find it to be an odd sportsmanship...considering a man of his stature.

That's a sheer observation, perhaps I could be proven otherwise. I don't know why it was met with so much opposition in the chit chat, unless unwritten rules over there prohibit such kind of criticism or anything like that.
 

Tookien

Active member
Since this is his thread, I also wanted to point out that after years of seeing him play, it occurred to me that he almost never apologizes for his fouls, even though the victims are hurting. Not going into a debate if this is wrong or right, I find it to be an odd sportsmanship...considering a man of his stature.

That's a sheer observation, perhaps I could be proven otherwise. I don't know why it was met with so much opposition in the chit chat, unless unwritten rules over there prohibit such kind of criticism or anything like that.

Thing is he gets fouled a lot and they never apologize either.
 

ZenI

Professor Balthazar
Still, without service and team playing on all cylinders he won't make a difference. But I agree, when he gets 2-3 chances he scores at least 1 - we shouldn't have taken him off against Betis. Thing is, Flick is running out of ideas and makes progressively more stupid decisions.
 

Maradona37

Well-known member
So apparently, Lewandowski has scored the same amount of goals in 116 games at Barca as Suarez did for Liverpool in 133 games.


And he's not even anywhere close to his peak years. :lol:
The thing is that some players are goalscoring cheat codes and it leads to quirky facts like this.

It's the sort of thing that leads moronic Man United fans to have faith in a donkey like Hojlund - 'he scored in the double digits last season, playing for a poor team, as a young kid, so OBVIOUSLY he will score even more in a better team as he matures' - but football doesn't work like that. Same as 'Lewa has scored the same goals in fewer games and post prime than prime Suarez did' - it's the sort of thing that happens because some players are cheat codes with stats.

Look at Garnacho - he's a woeful player but will always eek out better stats than a superior player in that team like Amad - just because of how he plays.

The overall point though is it is very disingenous to claim Lewa at Barca has operated at a similar standard to Suarez at Liverpool.

Lewa is like Haaland and Ronaldo - he's a goalscoring cheat code, and very often his goalscoring will be miles more impressive than his actual performance. Suarez at Liverpool was the opposite.

I like you a lot but you know it's a disingenous way to compare players what you have done with Liv Suarez and Barca Lewa. It delves into fanboy behaviour there. Like I say we get on well but you say we can always disagree, and here I do.

If anything this proves that stats are not the be all and end all - they say that Lewa now is better than Suarez at Liverpool. Logic though says that Suarez was way better then than Lewa is now.
 

Barcaman

Administrator
Staff member
When Eto'o was driven away in 2009 (Pep wanted him out in 2008 but luckily Cameroonian didn't budge) and we signed Ibra at his prime, journalists asked him questions about him pressing and will he able to do it way Eto'o has.
No one asks Lewa questions like that. It's like it's understood that we are settling for a legless man. Fuck that.

You can't expect the gegenpress with one man less contributing. Or worse, blame guys like Pedri or whoever for not running more for the Polish tractor.

Flick has to make a decision or I will be proven right in my initial forecast that Lewandowski will be the weight that sinks him.
 

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