Robert Lewandowski won’t be a Borussia Dortmund player next season, we all know that. Even Dortmund’s manager Jurgen Klopp has said so.
But while he’s there, Klopp doesn’t expect any problems. At all.
Yesterday Lewandowski accused directors of failing to keep their word after blocking any potential move to Bayern Munich over the summer. So now Lewandowski will have to wait out his contract until it expires next year and leave Dortmund for nothing.
However Klopp is standing firm and isn’t concerned with what the Polish international is saying.
“For me what he does is a thousand times more important than what he says because what he does needs no interpretation,” Klopp said."Whatever is left to be discussed will be discussed internally. The idea is to close this subject. Everything is in order. Nothing has changed since yesterday or the day before yesterday. I am convinced we will clear up everything in the coming days.”
So does that mean Lewandowski’s sulking around the place will stop? Will the directors and manager come to an agreement to sell him? Or maybe they will get the 24-year-old to sign a new cont... scratch that, never in a million years will that happen.
Has Lewandowski forced Klopp and Dortmund into a corner with his accusations? After leading Dortmund to the Champions League final and hammering home four goals in the 4-1 semifinal home win against Real Madrid, Lewandowski seems to have got above his station a little bit.
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Yes, he put in some stunning displays and led the line admirably against the elite of European soccer. But he did have the support form some of Europe’s leading midfielders feeding him chance after chance.
This is was Lewandowski was quoted as saying about the tricky situation he is now in at Dortmund.
He seems to have thrown all the faith and trust Dortmund put in him back in their faces. When he left Poland’s Lech Poznań at the age of 21, Lewandowski failed to settle straight away in Germany. But BVB kept faith in him and now he’s developed into one of the hottest properties in Europe. He’s done it himself, but don’t be fooled because Borussia have helped him plenty along the way.
Should the German club been more accommodating and let Lewandwoski leave this summer? Perhaps. It seems pretty stubborn and silly that they will loose out on millions of dollars just because they didn’t want to sell Lewandowski to Bayern after losing Mario Goëtze to their Bundesliga rivals earlier in the summer.
However this plays out, there will be no great winner. Lewandowski looks like the bad guy for turning his back on Dortmund and the club look silly for keeping a player around who clearly doesn’t want to, and won’t, be there nine months from now.
Something has to give. Maybe the next few days will seem some movement, as the giant Pole looks to move on. But he should remember, the grass isn’t always greener in Bavaria.