Transfermarkt Podcast Episode 8
“It’s all about coal, nothing else. You can’t solve the problem with a dinner at Tegernsee,” said Bayern Munich’s ex-manager and current honorary president Uli Hoeneß last May about world footballer Robert Lewandowski’s desire to change. The Polish striker shaped the past few years with the record champions in an incomparable way. Episode 8 of the Transfermarkt podcast “Done Deals” is not just about the transfer of the 33-year-old to FC Barcelona, but about his entire development since his arrival at Borussia Dortmund in 2010 and the move to Munich in 2014 – the best free transfer in football -Story.
It’s the end of an incredible era – Lewandowski’s €45m departure from German FCB to the Catalan. Was it the work of the record scorer alone that the Bundesliga was so one-sided in the championship race of recent years? What made Lewandowski stand out from the strikers of his time, why did he not only lift BVB into other spheres, but also FC Bayern? And how is the transfer to Barcelona to be evaluated, what were the reasons for it? “Done Deals” host Max Ropers answers these and other questions this week with Constantin Eckner, commentator on “MagentaTV”, host on “Sportradio Deutschland” and, during Lewandowski’s time at BVB, author on the blog “Spielvertragung” and Transfermarkt editor Philipp Marquardt – stop clean Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Amazon Music.
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Marquardt compares Lewandowski’s transfer with that of Mario Götze discussed in episode 6 of “Done Deals” a year earlier: “Götze came out of the box like Kai, Lewandowski, on the other hand, was tough chewing gum.” The transfer had already been hinted at in 2013 – Dortmund However, he remained firm in the talks with Bayern, refused any fee offered, and even spoke to Real Madrid at the same time so that the top striker would not move to Munich. Lewandowski even accused BVB of breaking their word – in behavior a small parallel to this year? However, he stayed another year and continued to score for the black and yellow.
There were strikers like him in the Bundesliga before and after his arrival, “but not at this level with this combination of athleticism, technique and understanding of the game,” Eckner describes Lewandowski’s class. Especially since, apart from a dispute with his former advisor, there were never any background noises and only very rarely injuries when he was in Bayern. The football expert and journalist says: “Perhaps Bayern and Lewandowski don’t even know what they had in common. He will be respected at Barça, but will not become a playing icon there.”
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From Real Madrid’s “Galácticos” in Episode 1, the rise of Chelsea FC with the era of José Mourinho, FC Bayern, who plundered the fixed-term deposit account, to the rise of the clubs Man City and PSG, who are backed by billions in oil. With experts from German football, the data power of Transfermarkt and the community, “Done deal“ the most memorable transfers of this millennium.
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