Robert Lewandowski has once again berated his former club Bayern Munich for the way they handled his transfer to Barcelona this summer.
The 33-year-old secured a €50m move away from the Bundesliga champions to join Spanish giants Barcelona after a dragged transfer saga in which the former were reluctant to let him leave.
The Polish forward has hit out at the “bullsh*t” and “politics” by his former employers, stating that he was glad to start a new chapter.
“[My transfer] had nothing to do with Erling [Haaland],” he said as he addressed rumours which stated he decided to leave because of the club’s interest in Haaland.
“I am the guy who even if something’s not good for me truth is more important. I don’t want to speak about what happened exactly. But if the question is if the decision to move was because of him, no, I didn’t see the problem if he joined Bayern Munich.
“But some kind of people doesn’t say to me the truth, say something different. And for me it was always important to be clear, to stay true, and maybe for a few people that was the problem.
“And in the end I know that something doesn’t work well with my person as well and I knew that, OK I see and I feel that maybe it’s a good time to move out of Bayern Munich and join Barcelona.
“I had a very good relationship with my teammates, with the staff, with the coach, and these are all things I’m going to miss because I spent a beautiful time there. And we were not only friends from the pitch but also something more.
“But in the end this chapter is over and I open a new chapter in my life and a new chapter in my career.
“So I feel that I’m in the right position, right place. So everything that’s happened in the last maybe few weeks before I left Bayern Munich, that was also of course a lot of politics.
“The club tried to find an argument why they can sell me to another club because before it was difficult to explain maybe to the fans. And I had to accept that even though it was a lot of bullsh*t, a lot of sh*t said about me. Not true, but in the end I knew that the fans, even in this period, still support me a lot.”
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