{"id":19866,"date":"2022-07-20T05:29:42","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T05:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/robert-lewandowski-completes-barcelona-move-from-bayern-munich\/"},"modified":"2022-07-20T05:29:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T05:29:42","slug":"robert-lewandowski-completes-barcelona-move-from-bayern-munich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/robert-lewandowski-completes-barcelona-move-from-bayern-munich\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Lewandowski completes Barcelona move from Bayern Munich"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\"><span class=\"timestamp\" data-behavior=\"date_time\" data-date=\"2022-07-19T22:27:00Z\"><span class=\"time\" data-dateformat=\"time1\" data-showtimezone=\"true\">6:27 PM ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li>\n<p>Alex Kirkland<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Moises Llorens<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Barcelona have announced the signing of Robert Lewandowski from Bayern Munich, becoming the LaLiga club&#8217;s fifth arrival this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Bayern president Herbert Hainer confirmed on Saturday the clubs had reached a verbal agreement for the transfer of the 33-year-old striker, but the move has now been completed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Toe Poke: How Barca&#8217;s Lewandowski outscored Ronaldo, Messi while at Bayern<\/strong><br \/><strong>&#8211; ESPN+ viewers&#8217; guide: LaLiga, Bundesliga, MLS, FA Cup, more<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lewandowski will sign a four-year contract with a release clause set at \u20ac500 million, Barcelona said in a statement.  He had 12 months remaining on his Bayern contract and moved to Barcelona for \u20ac45m with a possible \u20ac5m in add-ons, the 26-time Spanish champions confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The Poland international joined up with his new teammates on Barca&#8217;s preseason tour of the United States on Monday ahead of their friendly against Major League Soccer side Inter Miami on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Lewandowski has twice won the Golden Boot as Europe&#8217;s leading goalscorer and finished as runner-up for the 2021 Ballon d&#8217;Or.  He joins Pablo Torre, Franck Kessie, Andreas Christensen and Raphinha as additions as Barcelona look to build a squad to compete for LaLiga and the Champions League under coach Xavi Hernandez.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Oh, Robert &#8230; we&#8217;re excited, too \ud83d\ude09 <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/74HYaSOQ5d\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/74HYaSOQ5d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FCBarcelona\/status\/1549511406483013633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">July 19, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He was one of the club&#8217;s top targets this summer and helped push through the move as he sought a new challenge after eight glittering years at Bayern Munich.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN reported last month that Barca had made a series of bids &#8212; the latest worth over \u20ac40 million &#8212; for Lewandowski, who had just a year left on his contract, but were unable to convince Bayern until progress was finally made in talks.<\/p>\n<p>Lewandowski will join a Barca attack that already includes Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Ferran Torres, Ousmane Dembele, Ansu Fati and fellow summer signing Raphinha.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2022%2F0720%2Fr1038334_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=570&amp;format=jpg, https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2022%2F0720%2Fr1038334_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=1140&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2022%2F0720%2Fr1038334_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=375, https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2022%2F0720%2Fr1038334_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=750&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\">Robert Lewandowski warms up before Barcelona&#8217;s friendly against Inter Miami CF. <cite>Getty Images<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>He began his career in Poland, winning a league title with Lech Poznan.  He joined Borussia Dortmund in 2010 and became one of Europe&#8217;s most highly-rated forwards as he won two Bundesliga titles with Dortmund and reached the Champions League final before joining Bayern on a free transfer in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>At Bayern, Lewandowski scored 344 goals in 375 appearances, placing him second on their all-time scorers list behind Gerd Muller.<\/p>\n<p>He won the Bundesliga in all eight seasons at the club, as well as the Champions League in 2020, and was named Best FIFA Men&#8217;s Player in 2020 and 2021.<\/p>\n<p><i>Information from ESPN&#8217;s Sam Marsden contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6:27 PM ET Alex Kirkland Moises Llorens Barcelona have announced the signing of Robert Lewandowski from Bayern Munich, becoming the LaLiga club&#8217;s fifth arrival this summer. Bayern president Herbert Hainer confirmed on Saturday the clubs had reached a verbal agreement for the transfer of the 33-year-old striker, but the move has now been completed. &#8211; &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/robert-lewandowski-completes-barcelona-move-from-bayern-munich\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Robert Lewandowski completes Barcelona move from Bayern Munich<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[9382,7703,4439,9384,1939,3149,9383],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16518,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/official-barcelona-agree-to-sign-lewandowski-from-bayern\/","url_meta":{"origin":19866,"position":0},"title":"OFFICIAL: Barcelona agree to sign Lewandowski from Bayern","date":"July 16, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Barcelona have confirmed they have reached an agreement to sign Robert Lewandowski from Bayern Munich. 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