Robert Lewandowski has denied experiences he might be part of Jose Mourinho at Fenerbahce, additionally insisting he’s not contemplating retirement as he approaches his thirty sixth birthday.
Lewandowski scored 26 objectives in 49 video games throughout all competitions in 2023-24, although that was down on his complete of 33 objectives as Barcelona gained LaLiga in his first season with the membership in 2022-23.
With the Blaugrana ending a distant second to Actual Madrid in LaLiga and exiting the Champions League on the quarter-final stage, experiences had advised an attacking refresh might be within the offing.
Lewandowski – who’s midway by way of a four-year take care of the Catalan giants – was linked with a transfer to Fenerbahce, who appointed Mourinho as their head coach on Sunday.
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Nevertheless, the Poland worldwide has not heard something a few switch, telling Sport: “Fenerbahce haven’t contacted me. I don’t know something about it.”
Lewandowski will flip 36 shortly after LaLiga’s 2024-25 marketing campaign commences in mid-August.
He was requested whether or not he may observe within the footsteps of Toni Kroos, who went out on the prime of his recreation by serving to Actual Madrid win the Champions League within the closing match of his membership profession on Saturday.
“My coronary heart will inform me that second. Earlier than making a choice, I have to first really feel one thing,” Lewandowski stated.
“I don’t know when it is going to occur, it’s tough to find out it on my own. I want to listen to my resolution to make certain of it and now I don’t have it.
“Bodily I really feel superb and which means I can’t take into consideration retirement. Possibly Toni Kroos felt that second, nevertheless it’s not the case for me. I’m realising that the laborious work I’ve carried out and I’m nonetheless doing is paying off.”
Lewandowski will hope Hansi Flick’s arrival at Camp Nou helps him step issues up subsequent season, having registered an unimaginable 83 objectives and 18 assists in 71 video games below him at Bayern Munich, between November 2019 and June 2021.
The striker additionally set the Bundesliga’s single-season purpose document below Flick, netting 41 occasions in 29 league matches as they gained the title in 2020-21.