MUNICH (GERMANY), July 20 (dpa/EP) –
The sporting director of Bayern Munich, Hasan Salihamidzic, criticized the Polish Robert Lewandowski’s insistence on leaving the club despite having a valid contract, and acknowledges that perhaps they should not have put so much pressure on the Austrian David Alaba to renew and prevent him from leaving for free to Real Madrid.
For Salihamidzic, in an interview published this Wednesday by the magazine ‘Zeit’, the understanding towards Lewandowski’s attitude is “really zero point zero”. “And not only because I have fulfilled all my contracts as a player, as is logical. As a player, I would have clarified it internally and by myself and I would have fulfilled my contract,” he stressed in an interview in mid-June when the ‘9’ He had already made clear his desire not to renew and head to FC Barcelona.
On the other hand, the former player admitted errors in the negotiations with the Austrian David Alaba, who also did not renew his contract that ended in June 2021 and left for Real Madrid for free.
“We offered him a lot of money, from our point of view. There was a meeting with David’s advisers and we gave him an ultimatum, we told them that David would have to make a decision. From today’s point of view, I would say maybe it wasn’t necessary. , that a term had to be given to a player of David’s quality”, he confessed.