An amazing era ended at Bayern Munich with the news that one of the Bundesliga the club’s greatest ever goal scorer, Robert lewandowskileft to embark on a new challenge at Barcelona In LaLiga.
Eight title-laden years after joining on a free transfer from Borussia Dortmund, Lewandowski left Bayern after scoring 344 goals in all competitions for the Bavarian giants. Only one player in the club’s history has scored more goals: the great Gerd Muller (531 goals).
The Poland captain also left the Bundesliga right at the top of his game after finishing the 2021-22 season as the German league’s top scorer for the seventh time in his career – a record he shared. Muller holds. He is also equal to “Der Bomber“by scoring 41 goals in a single Bundesliga season, in 2020-21.
Lewandowski, 33, has scored a total of 312 league goals for Bayern and former club Borussia Dortmund, 53 less than Muller’s (365) in 427 games between 1964 and 1979.
Barca fans may also be interested to know that the 33-year-old has excelled Lionel Messi for eight years at the Allianz Arena. Since arriving on a free transfer in 2014, Lewandowski has scored 344 goals for club Bayern in all competitions. In the same time frame, the legendary Messi of Barca scored 329 goals for Barca and Paris Saint-Germain. The 35-year-old added just 11 goals to his career tally for the club in his first season in the French capital – who knows what could happen if Barca manage to one more year.
Moreover, Lewy also excels Cristiano Ronaldo for 8 years he wore the red jersey of Bayern. Ronaldo scored a total of 323 goals for the club Real Madrid, Juventus and Manchester United during the same period.
However, Ronaldo also scored more Champions League goals (73) than Lewandowski (69) or Messi (58) between 2014 and 2022, the period in which he became a goalscorer all-time top of the league as he helped Real Madrid win three European championships. consecutive crowns. Lewandowski and Messi both have one Champions League title each during that time, with the former player’s 15 goals in Bayern’s 2019-20 win the third-highest singles season overall in the league’s history. (Ronaldo, of course, takes all three places on the podium).
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However, considering Bayern play four fewer games per season in the Bundesliga with 18 teams than any of Messi’s and Ronaldo’s clubs have done in the other top five European leagues, it’s a fact that Lewandowski has scored. more than one of the two players shared the Ballon d’Or. ‘Or exclusivity between them for that period of time makes his feat all the more impressive.
Lewandowski scored 25 goals in all competitions in his first campaign at Bayern, which would be his lowest figure in a single season. In the following seven seasons, the Poland international has never once scored less than 40 goals per season. He even broke the 50-goal barrier twice, peaking with 55 goals in 47 games in 2019-20 before scoring 50 goals in 46 games in 2021-22, his final season. In Germany.
With such prolific output fueling Bayern’s dominance on German soil, it’s no surprise that Lewandowski can also boast of having won the Bundesliga title in all eight seasons he played for the club. sets and 19 titles in general.
Regardless of the financial gymnastics it went on Barca will fork out an initial €45 million fee to sign Lewandowski, if they can get that level of output from him for the duration of the contract it will be worth every penny.
