I wouldn't say anyone is Saint in all this. Club always use media to throw shit at players and agents. Players and his agents also does the same, everyone does what they think is best for them.
Unless your definition of "about to" is next few years, surely there's zero chance chance lose both this summer? and most likely neither?
Exactly! Considering the success both parts, the club and Lewandowski, had working together it's just disappointing they couldn't work it out amicably.
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The prestigious lawyer specialized in sports law Juan de Dios Crespo provided a new possible way out of the Lewandowski case.
This very clearly exists since it has been triggered all the time over the last years. Oh, wait…
I think it's Webster rule, no club triggers that as it just opens can of worms.
That rule exists, another thing is that players do not want to activate it. And that comment was because someone said to punish him for a year in the stands.
It's not clubs that trigger it but player, they are the ones buying their contract out.
Yes usually backed by clubs.
It's not usual, so I wouldn't make any point about what players usually do. I have no actual example of it being used.
Because it's a rule that was never exploited, players don't buy out their contract randomly, they do when they want to join some club. Like you said no example to think of, that's what I said in my first post.
I didn't know such a rule existed. Thank you for that information. Always great to learn something new.
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It wouldn't make much sense for him to call them "not serious", would it?
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He said that he hopes Bayern won't keep him just because they can. Nothing about them being or not being a serious club. Unless there's clip video where he said that.
As bad as it has been handled this time, it's still miles better than the circus that happened back in 2013 where his agent was literally on our public TV after every Dortmund game belittling the club, saying how Lewandowski is so far beyond what they deserve and that he has outgrown the club so massively that he must leave immediately (only the team he was supposed to leave to was changing). I mean he was at Dortmund, a club that is heavily followed in Germany and outside of it, that sells out huge stadium every game and is easily among top 20 clubs in Europe. And some of that nonsense was actually immediately after he scored 4 against Madrid and they made it to CL final.
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why they will just then force us to pay for the uplift!
You know Hoeneß isn't in charge anymore and Lewandowski doesn't boycott any training sessions right now, right?
Isn't he still a board member? I know he's not part of the management anymore, but he still seems quite talkative in the media, so I'm looking forward to his hard line stance.
He changed agents though, didn't he? I remember during his time at Dortmund, his agents had a very bad reputation., weren't all that professional and moreover he was by far their biggest client. Just googled it quickly, his two agents until 2018 were Kurcharski and Barthel. Apparently Kucharski is currently facing a law suit because he threatened to publish sensitive documents about Lewandowski and Barthel's biggest client right now is Kevin Schade. Zahavi is much more established and works with many very successful players like Alaba, Nkunku, etc.
Hoeneß was really known for his silence.I'm not talking about silence in general, but as in handling superstars. Remember Ribery? He wanted badly to go to Real Madrid until Hoeneß invited him to his home a few times and persuaded him, that he had everything in munich. You can say what you will about those two, but they had the charisma, finesse and the experience to handle superstars. Kahn and brazzo on the other hand...
Honest question: Do you think it's just a coincidence that many players (Coutinho, Dembele, now Lewy) rely on such behavior before joining you? Or is your management telling these players to force their way out?
I reckon a lot of clubs have agreed to let players go, but the condition is, it has to be seen as the player forcing a move, rather than the club publically admitting they want to let them go for a fee etc.
Hoeneß categorically rejected any offer for Ribery and told him that Bayern won't sell him under any circumstances in 09. He even risked going into the last year of his contract without extension if I remember correctly. Its true that he also pampered Ribery but the situation with a young but also very controversial and a 34 year old Lewa is a bit different. In general Hoeneß made so many nasty comments about players that wanted to leave, that its hard to keep track. For all his personal qualities, he was never able to keep quiet and commentated about everyone and everything.
of course it looks bad, but I dont believe barca encourages the players to such behaviour. Every player is an individual and has his own goals.
Bayern had to make this statement to get at least a reasonable transfer fee from Barcelona. Otherwise they would just low ball Bayern as they do now.
