Bayern coach Julian Nagelsmann will have to plan without goalscorer Robert Lewandowski from the coming season. But he also sees opportunities in the exit.
Coach Julian Nagelsmann also sees Robert Lewandowski’s move to FC Barcelona as an opportunity for German champions FC Bayern Munich. In general, he is never happy when a player leaves the club, especially not with a player of this quality, the coach said on Saturday on the sidelines of the team presentation on Saturday on Bayerischer Rundfunk.
“It’s a big challenge to replace him, but it’s also a great opportunity. We have the opportunity to build FC Bayern without a striker who can reliably score 40 goals,” said Nagelsmann.
Salihamidzic: “The coach feels very comfortable with it”
He doesn’t expect the club to sign another central striker. The transfer window is still open until the end of August, so one or the other could happen.
“Basically, the striker market is not so well filled in Europe that you can say you can use it freely and everything is cheap. You know that the strikers who have the quality to replace him have a certain price also have that we can’t always pay for,” said Nagelsmann.
Sports director Hasan Salihamidzic sees the team well positioned even without the classic number nine like Lewandowski. You have a lot of guys on offense who are very flexible, he said. “The coach feels very comfortable with it,” said Salihamidzic. You have lost 40 to 50 scorer points that you have to replace. “But you have to make the boys a bit responsible for that. I think some of them can also play themselves free,” he added.