United keen on Barca veteran

Manchester United are taken with signing Barcelona striker Robert Lewandowski as a free agent subsequent summer time. The 37-year-old has entered the final yr of his contract, and though Barcelona have the choice to increase his deal by an additional 12 months, there are reportedly reservations internally.

Barca supervisor Hansi Flick employs a high-intensity urgent sport, and uncertainties stay concerning the participant’s power and skill to execute the excessive press. The Each day Star has reported that United have now been placed on alert to Lewandowski’s scenario, and will be part of the race to signal the striker if his contract is allowed to run down.

Lewandowski has scored 4 instances in 9 appearances this season, regardless of query marks over his mobility. United signed Benjamin Sesko from RB Leipzig this summer time for £74m however supervisor Ruben Amorim has bedded the participant in slowly.

The Slovenian has began solely 4 Premier League video games out of his eight appearances, scoring two targets.

United chasing Lewandowksi

United could be inspired from their earlier pursuit of the participant, with Lewandowski not too long ago admitting he gave the inexperienced mild for the transfer. The Purple Devils have been chasing Lewandowski in 2012, when the participant was at Dortmund and contemporary off the again of a sensational 30 objective marketing campaign.

Regardless of the participant giving his blessings, Dortmund refused to budge on their talisman, having gained the Bundesliga crown twice in as a few years. It wasn’t meant to be in the long run, with Lewandowski seeing out his contract at Dortmund earlier than becoming a member of Bayern Munich on a free switch two years later.

“To Manchester United I made a decision and stated sure,” he stated in an interview with BBC Sport earlier this yr. “I needed to hitch Manchester United, to see Alex Ferguson.”

“They (Dortmund) couldn’t promote me,” he continued. “As a result of they knew if I stayed they may earn more cash, and that I might wait perhaps one or two extra years.”

“However it’s true that I stated sure to Manchester United.”

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