Chapter 5 Lewandowski’s Big Problem

Robert Lewandowski moved to Dortmund from the Polish powerhouse Lech Poznan in the summer of 2010. The transfer fee at the time was 4.75 million euros. At that time, this value was what Dortmund was worth in that summer. The biggest spend on the transfer market. Δ　　　ＥNovelＷｗ『W． ㄟ1XIAOSHUO． COM

But in the Bundesliga transfer market that summer, such a small amount of money was completely insufficient.

That year's Bundesliga summer transfer bidder belonged to Wolfsburg's Brazilian midfielder Diego. Wolfsburg spent 15.5 million euros to bring Diego from Juventus to Germany.

The second most valuable transfer was Huntelaar, who Schalke O4 purchased from AC Milan. The Dutch striker spent 14 million euros on Magath.

Lewandowski, who came to Dortmund for a modest transfer fee, just like his worth, did not become a blockbuster, although he was the golden boot scorer of the Polish First Division before coming to Dortmund. In twenty-eight league games, he scored eighteen goals.

He was at a disadvantage against Barrios and Mark Wagner.

But the goddess of luck finally favored the Polish high center forward.

Barrios was squeezed out of the main position by Mark, who was in excellent form, but then when Mark's condition was improving, he suffered a serious injury, giving Lewandowski a chance to shine.

The 2o11-2o12 season has just begun. Last season's main shooter Mark Wagner was seriously injured while participating in the national team game and was reimbursed for the season. Fate played a trick on Mark and pushed Lewandowski to the center of the stage.

Lewandowski also firmly seized this opportunity and became Klopp's most trusted striker with goals one after another. The 2o11-2o12 season was the season when Lewandowski officially became the main force of Dortmund's front line. In this season, Lewandowski played 34 times in the league, scoring 22 goals and eight assists. . He played six times in the German Cup and scored seven goals. Especially in the German Cup final, he completed a hat trick against the powerful Bayern Munich, helping Dortmund beat Bayern Munich 5:2 and win the German Cup trophy. .

His outstanding performance made people almost forget about Mark Wagner, who was injured and missed a season.

When Lewandowski moved to Dortmund, his annual salary was 1.5 million euros before tax. When Dortmund defended the league title in the 2o11-2o12 season, this salary was completely incompatible with Lewandowski's ability.

In fact, as early as the 2o11-2o12 season,

The Dortmund club has already begun to renew Lewandowski's contract. After Mark was seriously injured, Lewandowski became Dortmund's only support on the front line. Of course, Dortmund must find a way to renew Lewandowski's contract.

Lewandowski also feels that the salary of 1.5 million euros is too small and hopes to get more salary.

Since both parties have the need to renew the contract and have the same purpose, as long as they work hard, I believe they can reach an agreement.

But the result was the opposite.

Dortmund hopes to renew Lewandowski's contract until 2o17 and has offered a new contract.

But Lewandowski was not satisfied with the conditions proposed by the club. He hopes to get an annual salary of three million euros, which is the same as the team's captain Kyle.

Lewandowski's request was rejected by the Dortmund club. They were unwilling to give Lewandowski an annual salary of three million euros. They believed that Lewandowski was not worth the price.

Moreover, Lewandowski's agent publicly complained to the media about Dortmund's practices, which made Dortmund even more furious. Club CEO Watzke said: "Yes, the club has provided the player with a contract extension. The price was quoted, but agent Kucharski was not satisfied. But I still have to tell him that it is not a good idea to complain publicly to the outside world during the contract renewal process."

The contract renewal negotiations between the two parties have reached a deadlock.

At that time, Dortmund obviously did not pay much attention to Lewandowski. Their contract renewal work focused on Gotze and Zhou Yi.

Lewandowski's agent obtained a verbal commitment from Dortmund for Lewandowski - since the two parties cannot renew the contract, Dortmund should allow Lewandowski to find a new club on his own, as long as there is If the team's offer reaches or exceeds 25 million euros, then Dortmund should allow Lewandowski to leave.

Since Lewandowski's contract with Dortmund expires in the summer of 2014, Lewandowski should be allowed to leave Dortmund in the summer of 2013.

That is this summer.

At that time, the 2o11-2o12 season had not even ended yet. How could the top management of Dortmund Club think so much?

Maybe they don't think that any team can pay a transfer fee of 25 million euros for Lewandowski. You must know that Shaheen, as a core player of Dortmund, only paid 10 million euros when he transferred to Real Madrid. Woolen cloth.

So the top management of the Dortmund club agreed and made a verbal commitment.

Then Lewandowski's agent began to work hard for Lewandowski's new club, bent on getting Lewandowski to leave Dortmund.

Although Lewandowski's performance in the new season continues to be outstanding, which makes Dortmund's top management a little regretful, they still have to admit what they say, so Dortmund has made no other moves. Anyway, they feel that if a club is willing to pay 25 million for Lewandowski, then it may not be impossible to sell him.

Twenty-five million is still a "huge sum" for Dortmund, who can't wait to break it in half to spend it - they hired Royce Du from Monchengladbach for €17.5 million. It is the largest transfer expense since the club's reconstruction work in 2005.

And Lewandowski's agents are indeed capable. They finally found a new club for Lewandowski that was willing to pay 25 million euros-Bayern Munich.

Lewandowski's agent Koolhars once publicly announced to the Polish media: "I can assure you that Lewandowski will play for a bigger club next season. I hope that the two clubs can Eventually an agreement was reached.”

Kucharski's partner Battelle also made it clear: "We have accepted an invitation from another club and Lewandowski is preparing to transfer this summer."

Although neither agent directly stated it, everyone knew that their next destination was Bayern Munich.

According to a report in Bild, Lewandowski's agent has reached an agreement with Bayern Munich and the two parties will sign a four-year contract.

Faced with the statement of Lewandowski's agent and the report of Bild, Dortmund did not react at all. Everything seemed to be going smoothly.

But things changed after Bayern Munich activated the break clause in Gotze's contract and forcibly poached Gotze.

After Gotze is destined to leave the team, if the team's top scorer is let go, the damage to the team's strength will be huge.

Borussia Dortmund is unwilling to take such a risk. So they restarted the contract extension work for Lewandowski, hoping to keep Lewandowski.

This time, the new contract they provided Lewandowski included an astonishing seven million in annual salary!

This number has become more and more certain for Gotze to leave the team, becoming the team's highest salary.

It seems that Gotze was raided by Bayern Munich, which really panicked the Dortmund club. They offered such a sky-high annual salary contract in the hope of using money to impress Lewandowski. At this time, they no longer care about financial health, even though this word has been mentioned many times by them to deal with players' requests for contract extensions and salary increases... This seems really ironic...

But how can Lewandowski, who has already reached an agreement with Bayern Munich, give up the negotiated contract? Although Dortmund has suppressed Bayern Munich in terms of performance in recent years, in the eyes of most people, Bayern Munich is superior to Dortmund in terms of financial resources, reputation, and status.

Lewandowski's move to Bayern Munich is certainly more promising than staying in Dortmund - at that time, Bayern Munich was still leading Dortmund in the league standings, and Dortmund was not sure they could reach the Champions League final.

As a result, Lewandowski scored an astonishing four goals in the first leg of the Champions League semi-final against Real Madrid. While making history, it also made Dortmund even more panicked - if Lewandowski were to let Lewandowski do it again With Wandowski leaving, the senior management of the Dortmund club may be criticized by the Dortmund fans...

So they continued to put pressure on Lewandowski.

Under such circumstances, Lewandowski's agent Kucharski had to reveal to the media that they had a verbal agreement with Borussia Dortmund as long as other clubs offered Lewandowski this summer. For 25 million euros, Dortmund will let him go.

Lewandowski's agent hopes to regain the initiative through such a move.

As a result, Dortmund CEO Watzke did not admit the existence of such an agreement at all: "...The transfer depends not only on the player's wishes, but also on the club's ideas. At present, we have not received any formal offer. Lewandoff Ski and the club still have a contract that expires in 2o14, and there is no termination clause in the contract..."

Watzke's statement made Kucharski very dissatisfied. The Polish agent said in an interview with Der Spiegel: "Dortmund has promised us before that as long as the transfer fee reaches a certain amount, it will agree to the player's transfer." Transfer this summer. We will insist that the club fulfill its commitments."

The two sides settled down like this.

At that time, because the season was not over yet and the conflict had not been intensified, both sides deliberately controlled the scale.

For example, Lewandowski himself said after this incident: "I want to dedicate my goal in the Champions League semifinals to my deceased father. Whenever I score an important goal, I always dedicate it to him." Him. We still have a few rounds of Bundesliga games, plus Champions League games, and that’s the most important thing. As for the transfer situation, let’s wait and see what happens in the future, but I won’t comment more on it… "

Now that the season is over and Dortmund have won the league title and the Champions League, nothing can stop the fight between the club and Lewandowski's agent.

As a result, the issue of Lewandowski's whereabouts was brought up by the media, causing a lot of speculation and becoming a big headache for the Dortmund club this summer.