Lewandowski came between Haaland and Bayern

In football, the goal is paid dearly. For this reason, opportunities such as signing a predator like Erling Haaland for just 20 million euros are practically chimerical.. Borussia Dortmund won the pitched battle that took place a year ago to take over the Norwegian. A fight in which Bayern Munich was also. Bavarians tend to be successful on the pitch and in offices, but this time there was something that ruined the possible operation. That something responds to the name of Robert Lewandowski.

The Polish striker has been an immovable star of the Munich team for years and, like good wine, better with the years. His present and future presence was the cause of the Bayern option disappearing. Both last year and in 2017, when they were also close to sharing the future, as the newspaper reported Bild. The main condition set, then and now, by Alf-Inge Haaland, father of the attacker, was that his son enjoy a guarantee of sufficient minutes so that he could continue developing his brilliant career in the first level. Something they could do in Dortmund, but not in Munich. For this reason, despite words from the father and agent himself last December, in which he indicated that he could imagine Haaland at Bayern, the operation never took place.

In this way, at Signal Iduna Park they pushed aside one of their biggest rivals for the coveted piece and they can enjoy one of the most voracious forwards on the continent. At least for now. We cannot forget that Real Madrid has a clear route plan marked with two names in capital letters, Mbappé in 2021 and Haaland the following year. The agreement between all the parties when the arrival of the Norwegian from RB Salzburg was agreed contained a small print that, as this newspaper has well told, would facilitate the departure of the ram in 2022.

The goal as a way of life

The '9' of Dortmund, meanwhile, follows his thing. If last season he did not stop biting into the record books of precociousness and voracity, in the present the story follows the same context, that of the goal. In the 18 games he played with the team borusser in the second half of 2019-20 he scored 16 goals, while during the course of present course already adds 8 goals in 9 games. Five of them have arrived in the Bundesliga, a scoring table that is led, curiously, by the player who closed the Bayern doors to him, Robert Lewandowski and his sensational 10 goals at this point.