Manchester United and Chelsea ‘offered Robert Lewandowski with striker wanting to quit Bayern Munich’
ROBERT LEWANDOWSKI has reportedly been offered to Manchester United and Chelsea amid claims the striker is desperate to leave Bayern Munich.
The Pole, 29, joined the German champions from Dortmund four years ago and has scored 106 goals in 126 Bundesliga games.
Bayern have won the Bundesliga six times in a row but have repeatedly failed to make their mark on the Champions League since their 2012-13 win over Dortmund at Wembley.
Lewandowski is said to be seeking a new challenge with United and Chelsea reportedly offered the striker, although claim the fee could be as much as £175million (€200million).
The fee is not the only stumbling block, with United having heavily invested in £75million man Romelu Lukaku, who joined from Everton just 12 months ago.
There will be no Champions League football for Lewandowski to look forward to should he join Chelsea.
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Chelsea splashed out £60million on Alvaro Morata last summer, but his rapid decline saw Olivier Giroud recruited from Arsenal in January.
Last month, Lewandowski's agent Pini Zahavi put clubs across Europe on alert by admitting his client was looking to move.
Zahavi said: "Robert feels he needs a change and a new challenge in his career. The managers of Bayern know about that."
Lewandowski made the free transfer switch to the Allianz Arena in 2014, in the hope of securing a Champions League title with Bayern.
However, despite a managerial cast including Pep Guardiola, Carlo Ancelotti and Jupp Heynckes, Lewandowski has never made it past the semi-final stage with the club.
Any deal for Lewandowski is likely to be delayed until after the World Cup, where the striker captains Poland in Group H alongside Senegal, Colombia and Japan.
Lewandowski's 52 international goals are an all-time record for his country, coming in 93 appearances.
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He flies to Russia off the back of a second Bundesliga Golden Boot with Bayern, and his third in five years dating back to his final season with Dortmund.
In the past three seasons he has totalled 29, 30 and 30 league goals respectively, with his 174 career strikes placing him seventh all-time in Bundesliga history.
He could have made the switch to the Premier League eight years ago with Blackburn Rovers, but their move for the then-Lech Poznan man was scuppered by a flight ban caused by an Icelandic volcano eruption.
That summer, he joined Dortmund from Poznan for a reported £4million, scoring 103 goals in his four seasons under now-Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp.