Robert Lewandowski is The Best and his stats are terrifying – so where’s the Haaland-esque scramble to sign him?

Breaking: Robert Lewandowski is very, very good. So where is the scramble to sign the Bayern Munich striker? Never mind a hat-trick inside 23 minutes, more specifically it was a devastating 10-minute-and-24-second hat-trick which quickly ended RB Salzburg’s hopes of a Champions League upset.

Ad/> It had been finely poised at 1-1 after the first leg, with Lewandowski unable to record a shot on target in Austria, but the Pole had other ideas in the second leg back home – recording the earliest ever Champions League hat-trick and reaching double figures in the competition for a third time (also 2012-13 and 2019-20). TransfersLewandowski ‘open to everything’ as reports talk up transfer to Spain01/03/2022 AT 09:19 Add to that a seventh straight season of 40-plus goals and Bayern have a player capable of steering them to European glory — once more.

Lewandowski’s goals – past seven seasons 2015-16: 42 2016-17: 43 2017-18: 41 2018-19: 40 2019-20: 55 2020-21: 48 2021-22: 42 so far… He is, according to national team captains and head coaches across the world, The Best, and has been for two years, so the fact Bayern have escaped summers of speculation in recent times is to be commended but also questioned. Lewandowski ‘open to everything’ as reports talk up transfer to Spain Bayern Munich see off RB Salzburg Werner eyed as Haaland replacement with Bayern lurking — Paper Round /> At 33 he may be a less attractive option than a £64m Erling Haaland in terms of longevity, but here is a ready-made superstar capable of elevating any team, and so it is hard to see why Manchester City in particular have not pushed for the striker, especially when they were willing to spend £125m on Harry Kane – a figure reportedly turned down by Tottenham