Barcelona striker, Robert Lewandowski, has lamented that he
did not leave Bayern Munich to join the Blaugrana because of Manchester City’s
Erling Haaland.
Lewandowski said this while hitting back at Bayern Munich
for reportedly lying about the terms of his departure this summer.
The Poland international brought his eight-year stay with
the German Bundesliga champions to an end after completing a £42.5 million move
to Barcelona this summer.
Several reports had suggested that Bayern Munich’s interest
in Haaland, who eventually joined Manchester City from Borussia Dortmund, was
the driving force in Lewandowski seeking a move away.
But the 33-year-old has now said that those reports are wide
of the mark, and he would not have had a problem with Haaland joining Bayern.
Speaking to ESPN, Lewandowski said: “No, that (departure)
was nothing to do with Erling. I am the guy who, even if something’s not good
for me — the truth is more important.
“I don’t want to speak about what exactly happened. But if
the question is if the decision to move was because of him, no, I didn’t see
the problem if he joined Bayern Munich.
He added, “But some kind of people doesn’t say to me the
truth, say something different.
“And for me, it was always important to be clear, to stay
true, and maybe for a few people, that was the problem.
“But in the end, this chapter is over and I open a new
chapter in my life and a new chapter in my career.”
He added, “So I feel that I’m in the right position, right
place. So everything that’s happened in the last maybe few weeks before I left
Bayern Munich, that was also, of course, a lot of politics.
“The club tried to find an argument why they could sell me
to another club because before it was difficult to explain, maybe to the fans.
And I had to accept that even though it was a lot of bulls**t a lot of s— said
about me.
“Not true, but in the end, I knew that the fans, even in
this period, still support me a lot.”
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