How much will Robert Lewandowski earn at Barcelona?
FT Desk
- 5 Sept 2022 15:26 BST
- 3 min read
Robert Lewandowski has already hit the ground running at Barcelona, but how much will the Polish striker cost the Catalans in total?
Lewandowski joined Barcelona from Bayern Munich in a €50 million transfer in July, and he has slotted straight into the first team at Camp Nou.
Four games played, five goals scored, reads the record of a man who left Germany having won the last five top scorers' canons.
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"When I first knew that Barcelona were interested in me, I knew that it was the perfect time both for the club and for me," Lewandowski said recently.
"I didn't want to play all my life in one league. Bundesliga was nice, I felt good there. But I knew it was time to move to La Liga and take a step forward in my career."
The perfect time, maybe, but did Lewandowski cost the perfect price? The €50m transfer is a significant outlay for a player who just turned 34, but there are further costs behind that fee.
€100 million package
"Robert Lewandowski will receive a salary of €10m this year," report Spanish radio network Cadena SER. "Then €13m net next season, €16m net in 2024/25 and €13m net in 2025/26.
Barca will be able to unilaterally terminate his contract if he plays less than 55 per cent of games in the 2024/25 season.
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One of the fittest players in the sport - owing part to the training regime he has with his nutritionist and former karateka wife, Lewandowski only missed 23 games in eight years with Bayern, and the bulk of those was with a strained ligament two seasons ago.
The chances are he continued to play for some time yet, and continues to score, and if he sees out his contract the total cost will be €52m in salary, which added to his transfer fee makes for a €102m outlay.
Barca have made some of that money back in sales, with Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang joining Chelsea on transfer deadline day. Memphis Depay came close to a €10m move to Manchester United, but any such move for the Dutchman will now have to wait until January.
