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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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Can't be asked to watch a 7 min video to answer the question. Video could be better explained in 1 and a half minutes
Bayern always take their best players for granted. Interesting to see how it plays out in the future as the Bundesliga falls farther and farther behind the other leagues due to the ownership structure limiting everyone besides one team.
Cuz He played for himself and not for the team, that`s why Mandukic is loved by fans of every club He played for Wolfsburg, Atletico, Bayern fans and Juventus fans ( Juventus fans will never forgive that manager called Idiot who said: He doesn`t need Mandukic, when he could of gave Juventus so much more )
Aubameyang got a better farewell after less than a year at Barcelona than Lewy did after 8 years of solid performance. Shame on Bayern.
who is this guy?
As a Mönchengladbach fan lewandowski to me will always be a title hungry mercenary. He might have been one of the greatest Bundesliga footballers of all time but him being a „professional“ by joining the club that just beat Dortmund in the ucl final after being runners up and even making the ucl final to me is unforgivable. He killed every chance of the bundesliga being a competitive league by joining their strongest rival just because they were 2 goals shy of the ucl title.
Lewandowski Is the Kevin Durant of football
Lewa is a really egotistical player. You may believe me or not but my friend whos in the youth team of bayern said that the first team of bayern visited them due to good performances. And lewy was apparently really egotistical and refused to give out kits, signatures or pics. Since he is gone, bayern has been feeling motivated. In the first games of the season there have been multiple scorers and not just one like before.
With Bayern, the collective was always more important than the individual. Lewy has always made it about himself and no more was that apparent than after he lost the Ballon Dor and everything went downhill from there.
Yeah but sorry Lewy is most of all the captain of poland national Team.. this is where he is emotional and where is his accent on..the Club is subordinated to his playing for his country..there he Switches positions..Supports polish youngsters…and most of all is an important icon of healthy life style and work from the bottom to the top for All Poles
Because he has always been a selfish mercenary. Thank me later I saved 8min of your life 🙂
People act like Bayern is this emotional club that fosters a familiar environment. LOL! No no no, it's not BvB or Mainz. Bayern is ice cold.
You guys only see Thomas Müller being affable, a local boy made good, but he's a one off in context of the modern Bayern München. It's unfair to expect everyone Bayern churns in and out of the system to be like Thomas, because they did not come from Pähl and get to be a local hero.
How about putting it from Lewandowski point of view??? Bayern never really offered him a contract extension. They were planning to replace him with Halland. After all he had done for the club. Even after Halland deal failed Salihamidzic didn’t act either fast nor professional handling the situation….. Both sides are there to find guilty.
One thing for sure is that we aren't missing his goals.
🧢🧢🧢🧢
Seems like a bit of a knob, Barca is the perfect club for him.
Maybe that is bitter pill to swallow but Germans are racist towards Poles. They treat them like they are lesser nation and they cant bear the fact that player from Poland was better than any German player. Thats why they cant appreciate Lewandowski.
Lewy was very loved in Bayern, almost every day we hear something about Lewy from Bayern. Lewy, muller, and neuer three were captains of Bayern while Neuer was the captain of the team he lead the defense, muller linked up plays Lewy lead the frontline creating spaces for other players. You can clearly see in coman's goal in the final how Lewy is marked by 3 players and coman is free, just because of him, he indirectly creates the goals which normal people don't understand
I mean, rafinha was more bavarian than lewa…
It's funny how no one really talks about this, but if it was Ronaldo, they'll burn him at the stake, not necessarily saying lewy is a bad person he's a professional, but the double standards tho
Great video, but why is Mandzukic on the thumbnail? 😀
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Robert failed to understand no player is bigger then a club the fact is we won everything with him and without him people do forget I get it we were on top when he joined that’s a fact I love lewy and what he did but let’s not act like success will not continue for bayern cause he’s gone bayern challenged and dominated Europe before he even got on the team I hope continues he’s great form for Barca all this being said the guy is still a bayern legend when it’s all done lewys tipping point was when bayern made it be known that they had interest in Halland I don’t see anything wrong there lewy is on the wrong side of 30 if he dint move on now he was gonna move on anyways out with the old in with the new that’s Ben Bayern’s philosophy can u Blake them 2 trebles in less then 8 years I say it’s working
He did more than robben and ribery combined.
If he was German he'd get contract extension.
Destroyed all their wannabe heroes.
Last thing they wanted was the last Muller record broken.
Capppppp
Just because hi is Pole.
video should be called why Lewandowski never loved Bayern
What is the song in the background ?
I think a few years further everyone will remember him as the great striker he was at Bayern and with his numbers there is no way around calling him a Bayern Icon. I already get nostalgic seeing him in the Bayern kit.
He might have been a pragmatic one, however if you look how the club treated him in comparison to Robben or Ribery you might find disrespect about division between Eastern and Western Europe. I think if Robert would be a Dutch man it would never be brought into a big scope that he asks for some solutions and is critical about strategy, nor about financial sides. It's clear that if you give good performance you also expect compensation and recognition and that was barely given to Robert during his time in Bayern. What also bothers me is the fact how low German media and journalism is that many times they couldn't translate his interviews sentence by sentence, but rather would cut a few words and try to glue them out of the blue into a never-said story, given out of the context. Of course most of the Bild readers would not bother to even give a check what was said in the first instance.
Because Bayern are Nazis, they hate Poland