A few weeks ago, there was a report (more like a story that we covered here) that FC Barcelona had asked Robert Lewandowski to ease off his scoring to help save the club some money, so it would not have
to pay out some of his incentives.
For abo0ut 24 hours it was all the rage, but it was really inconclusive if the story was true or not.
We are not here to debate those merits…we do not know. So, we are not here to make any claims one way or the other.
What we are here to do it to marvel in the amazement of this X post from the site Managing Barca:
🚨🚨🗣️ Is it true that Barcelona asked you to stop scoring goals in order to not pay a bonus to Bayern Münich?
Lewandowski: “There are some things that I don’t want to speak about. I respect FC Barcelona, and everyone who works there.”
“I was aware of the club situation. Many things had to be resolved for the good of the club.”
“In summary, it was a bonus. At that moment, Barça were looking at every single euro. It was not a small thing.”
“For me it didn’t change anything, I had no problems with it, but I kept wondering if I should score or not.”
For context, Managing Barca is a site with over 560K X followers.
Crazy, right?
Well, we dug deeper and found that Tribuna covered this topic and this is what they had to say:
Earlier in the season, a report appeared in Spain suggesting that Barcelona had told Robert Lewandowski to stop scoring goals.
During Lewandowski’s interview with Polish YouTuber Bogdan Rymanowski, Lewandowski was asked if it’s true that Barcelona asked him to stop scoring goals in order not to pay a bonus to Bayern Münich.
Lewandowski replied: “There are some things that I don’t want to speak about. I respect FC Barcelona and everyone who works there.
“I was aware of the club situation. Many things had to be resolved for the good of the club.
“In summary, it was a bonus. At that moment, Barça were looking at every single euro. It was not a small thing.
“For me it didn’t change anything. I had no problems with it, but I kept wondering if I should score or not,” Lewandowski said.
This is a clear admission of guilt from Lewandowski. Indeed, Barcelona asked their striker to stop scoring goals at the back end of last season.
So…we tracked down the video, watched it with subtitles, and damn, it lines up to the reports:
What do you think?
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