The situation
Xavi Hernandez is pressuring the club to bring Robert Lewandowski as soon as possible. It is wanted to avoid at all costs that the Polish striker, who is in Munich training with Bayern, travels with the German club to the American tour that begins on July 18 and that if he travels to the United States it is to take a good destination: Miami or Las Vegas. Laporta has promised the coach that the operation is very well underway and that there could be news in the coming days. This means that it is not even ruled out that he could be present on July 20 in Miami to watch Barcelona’s first friendly on tour against Inter Miami from the stands and then begin training with his new teammates with the challenge of be able to debut as a Blaugrana against Real Madrid in the game that will be played on July 24 in Las Vegas. The operation for the Polish striker could end up closing for around 45 million euros plus variables, with a three-year contract, at a rate of nine million clean.
The details
Lewandowski would be in the highest area of the new salary table imposed by the club, where players like Gerard Piqué , Sergio Busquets or Frenkie de Jong will have to lower their payrolls to fit into the new wage bill. The truth is that the signing of the Pole is very hot and in the next few days it could just be made official. If so, Xavi’s Barcelona would have one of the, a priori, most powerful strikers on the planet , with ‘ Lewan ‘ as a great catalyst, accompanying him on the flanks Raphinha , Dembélé , Ferran or Ansu Fati , and with the relief of Aubameyang as a center forward. What seems clear is that in these conditions players like Memphis, Braithwaite or Abde are at the exit door.