Barcelona have accomplished the long-awaited signing of Robert Lewandowski from German champions Bayern Munich.
The 33-year-old, who’s extensively heralded as one of many recreation’s high strikers, had been pushing for an exit from Bayern all summer time after rising annoyed with an absence of motion in contract negotiations, publicly insisting that Barca was his most popular vacation spot.
Indeed, Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain had been among the many sides to specific an curiosity in signing Lewandowski, though each groups had been nicely conscious that they might solely get a look-in if talks with Barcelona broke down.
That seemed like a risk at instances, with the La Liga aspect struggling to seek out the cash wanted to persuade Bayern to promote, just for an settlement to lastly be reached between the 2 sides on the €45m plus €5m add-ons.
Lewandowski mentioned goodbye to his Bayern team-mates on Saturday and has now put pen to paper on a four-year contract at Camp Nou.
Lewandowski turns into Barcelona’s fourth signing of the summer time, following Franck Kessie, Andreas Christensen and Raphinha in making the transfer to Catalonia.
Xavi’s aspect have additionally re-signed winger Ousmane Dembele to a brand new contract and proceed to search for additional reinforcements within the switch market.