Robert Lewandowski explains Pep Guardiola’s role in Barcelona transfer

Robert Lewandowski has revealed that enjoying underneath Pep Guardiola at Bayern Munich was a key cause behind his transfer to Barcelona this summer season.

After pining for a transfer to the Catalan membership for months, Lewandowski ultimately received his want just lately, signing a four-year deal on the membership.

Talking to Diario Sport forward of Barca’s La Liga opener vs Rayo Vallecano on Saturday, the prolific ahead mentioned Guardiola’s affect on his choice to signal for the membership, stating: “Guardiola’s philosophy and his type for caring for and managing the workforce was like bringing Barcelona to Bayern Munich.

“Xavi is similar to Guardiola. They have been each sixes they usually labored collectively. They give thought to soccer in the identical approach. With that in thoughts, Barcelona was the one possibility for me. It was nice preparation.

“I didn’t speak to Guardiola earlier than signing. However after I was with him at Bayern it was like an awesome preparation to come back to Barcelona in the future.

“All of the workers have been Spanish and there have been eight Spanish gamers. Throughout that interval I had an excellent relationship with Thiago and Javi Martinez. Each of them congratulated me after I signed for Barcelona.”

Lewandowski additionally revealed that his spouse, Anna, additionally had an enormous function to play within the ahead shifting to the Camp Nou: “It’s clear that we’ve got to determine all the pieces collectively. We had been speaking about this chance for weeks. We’ve by no means closed ourselves off to new chapters, we needed a brand new problem.

“We all know how shortly time passes within the profession of an elite athlete and we needed to do one thing new, one thing huge. It’s not one thing that occurred in a single day however a technique of maturation.”

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