Robert Lewandowski has made a fantastic start to the season, having scored 23 goals in 24 appearances for Barcelona. However, he has struggled of late, as he has found the net only once (vs Real Betis) in his last five matches.
Saturday’s disappointing home defeat against Atletico Madrid saw an especially poor performance from Lewandowski, who missed a couple of clear-cut chances. This has led to increased pressure on his shoulders, and more calls for Barcelona to sign a new striker next summer.
As things stand, Lewandowski will continue to be Barcelona’s starting striker for the 2024-25 and 2025-26 seasons, although Sport say that there are some at board level that would be open to the club pushing the Polish striker towards the exit door during next summer’s transfer window.
It’s worth noting that Lewandowski will be 37 by the start of next season, so he cannot be relied upon to be a nailed-on starter week-in-week-out for too much longer. Barcelona are aware of this, although signing a suitable successor will be tricky because of their well-documented financial woes.
BillyDedon
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Honestly we need a striker like Victor from Sporting or Patrick Shick from Leverkusen those guys will be burying all those chances Lewandoski has been missing. Flick has done a fantastic job to get this team playing fantastic football creating chances regardless of the opposition they face but the players especially Lewy has let him down. Barcelona have already missed over 50 big chances are we not even half season gone, a team that wants to win titles can not be wasting this many chances. The last game we won in Laliga against Mallorca, we missed 4 big chances in the first half and if we didn't created more in the second half, we would have probably lose or draw the game. Flick can not be blame for anything the team let him down.