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Robert Lewandowski scored goals, many goals, for Bayern Munich. He broke records, many records. But did little else. He failed to emotionally endear himself to his teammates, the fans, or Bayern Munich themselves.
Raphael Honigstein writes how although Lewandowski was one of the greatest strikers to ever grace the Bundesliga, Bayern Munich never really loved him. Illustrated by Marco Bevilacqua.
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41 Comments
Actually a big part in it plays the German xenophobia as they see polish people as beneath them and disregard them as leer worth … Germans do this with most of other nations .. they only really have an inferiority complex when it comes to Anglo cultures ….
2 places us Polaks will never love. Germany and Russia
Because he’s Polish and Bayern is a German club
8 years at Bayern (12 years in Germany) is a very long time.
Schweinsteiger's departure was even more quiet than Lewandowski (Lewy came back for 1 more training session and one more time to say goodbye to his teammates; Schweinsteiger came back 4 years later for a testimonial). For me, the sale of Schweinsteiger and THE FREE TRANSFER of David Alaba were harder to understand than Lewandowski's.
Also Ribery had asked to leave once, but Hoeneß persuaded him to stay put.
I still love the guy, will always love the guy. It does make me chuckle how Barcelona are terrible in the Champions League this season.
Good video to go to sleep to
I wonder who has sponsored that piece of bull***.
I think, you miss one thing out.
It was never the fault of the team, Lewandowski didn't score the important goals.
He just needed too many chances for a worldclassstriker.
He pushed his name himself with his RL9-image, his new fancy goal scoring celebration.
All very calculated, but was never a factor in big games. He scored against Juventus once, against Atletico Madrid once and against Madrid a penalty. That's everything he leaves behind from 12 games against top clubs before 2020. And like you said 2020, he also scored the less important goals, maybe the goal against Tottenham in group stage, you could count. But to me, Gnabry was the man.
I don't think, it's the team's fault, when other players like Kimmich, Robben, Gnabry showed their class in some important situations nonetheless but Lewandowski remains invisible.
It was not the team performance, that made Robben score against Fiorentina 09, United 09, Dortmund 13 and many others the important winning goals, but class and mentality.
Bayern Munich is just a machine and they focussed to help Lewandowski to get his 41 goals.
But I'm pretty sure, Choupo Moting could score 30 goals easily too, if he was assisted like Lewandowski at the time..
To me, it's rather surprising he got his Fifa player award. Never thought, he would achieve this.
No hate, he is a great striker and definitely the one who made the most of his talent. I'll give him that.
Coz he is polish
Great video but Michael Ballack was conspicuous by his absence. He was strangely unloved by Bayern despite being a prolific scorer of critical goals and the heartbeat of the team in a much more competitive era. There is something odd about Bayern in that they seem to value craft and surprise over sheer output more than other clubs.
I'm honestly irritated by the treatment he received during, and after his time at Bayern. Both teams and fans forget that his goals played a huge part of the success Bayern enjoyed
Cause he was never in it with his heart. Cause focussing on setting one player into good light, is not how we want the team to play. He was the reason I even lost interest in the game little by little. And from game one when he was gone the way they play got exciting again. We're back to asking ourselves any game, any minute who (1,2 or bunch of players) will get struck by brilliance and strike. I love it.
One thing is for sure, nobody misses him at Bayern. Turns out Lewa needed Bayern a lot more than Bayern needed Lewa to shine! And Lewa was delusional enough to think he was that important.
Never seen a dumber title.
I loved Lewandowski in Bayern
I am a Bayern Fan. To be honest, Bayern fans loved Lewandowski so much. But we never really felt if he cares about it. He is too selfish. When he left Dortmund, he did the same thing. When he left Bayern , he did the same thing. He is gonna keep disrespecting his club no matter what. Bayern’s atmosphere in dressing room is probably the best in any european club. They don’t have a superstar. Everyone has the same status. But Lewandowski wants to be Treated differently. Hé wants to be the main man. He wants Ballondor. And he deserved two.
But tbh he has never really did enough in UCL for Bayern. There has never been ‘ a Lewandowski inspired champions league victory’ for Bayern. Even Benzema’s last season performance in UCL is Better than Lewandowski’s UCL career as a Bayern player. Anyways the thing is if you don’t respect your club, you are no one. Team comes above any player. We don’t have a main man. We have a Club. Mia San Mia ❤
my god… we loved lewandowski
look at barca and madrid they adrores messi & ronaldo but in case of bayern fans they continously troll lewandowski
All great strikers at the highest level tend to be salty at their teammates. But i dont think it was anything malicious. it's greatness.
Honestly I think he's a fraud
He never shows up in the big games
Because their league isnt very competitive and they know they can win with any striker is my guess before watching the video.
Yeah bros polish… Germany, Poland …
When he played for the club you would have read and see videos stating 'what the club and the fans love about him', once he left is the opposite. And this is about all areas of modern world where people are exposed to media… Politicians, celebrities, etc., etc.
He lost Bayern Bayern didn't lose him
Two pronunciation corrections:
Hoeness is transliterated into English as HEN-ess, not HOO-ness.
A real puzzler: How did you get Ribery's name (rib-er-EE) as ROB-er-ee?
He simply always seemed to be arrogant and not funny at all.
This video is stupid
Be cause thay r not geys.😂😂😂😂😂
pointless video
Hmmm
TLDR coz he is a Polish immigrant and Tifo thinks Germans still be closed off like that.
Just wanted to point out his nickname is "Lewy" not "Lewa" – which I see all the time. nice vid.
Easy question and simple answer – Because he is Polish.
Which is not actually true: FC Bayern did not deny him a lengthy contract because of Haaland but because we never give lengthy contracts to players distinctively over 30. This just a basic club policy that applies to everyone except goalkeepers.
The clear pattern is, Bayern makes any striker a lethal striker; Bayern helped Lewandowski's career more than he helped Bayern, look at who scores on the most important matched in the UCL and you will rarely find Lewandowski's name.
Mario Gomez and Mario Mandžukić have scored a lot of goals with Bayern and never received the same hype from the media, you can disagree with me if you want, but to me, Mario Mandžukić was better than Lewandowski at Bayern.
People tend to forget the 9 before Lewa, Mandzukic was also very good at Bayern and won all with them.
Arguably the top striker of his generation, with Luis Suarez & Zlatan Ibrahimovic following closely behind him. 34-years-old with18 goals in 19 games for Barcelona so far this season… If he continues at anywhere near this rate for another 2 seasons, then he will undoubtably the greatest striker of his generation, if not the 21st century thus far…
The players he played with were good. Not everybody needs a an emotional family connection to the team
One more crucial fact: Lewandowski is Polish. Germans and Poles do not love each other.
The only true world class footballer to come out of Poland. Loved or hated abroad, the man needs to transplant his professionalism onto his whole country after retirement.
But he always plays with all his hearth for Polish national team
no offense, but german society is a ungrateful and jealous society. they even made their hero franz beckebnauer fall