Report: Chelsea, Manchester United enter talks with Lewandowski
Chelsea and Manchester United are in the early stages of talks with Robert Lewandowski's representatives to try to tempt the Polish hitman to the Premier League, according to Sky Sports' Spanish football expert, Guillem Balague.
In a summer transfer window that hasn't spared the biggest names from the rumour mill, the Bayern Munich striker is the latest to be linked with a colossal switch. Although discussions are at a preliminary phase, it's understood Lewandowski would prefer to end up at Antonio Conte's Chelsea.
With 30 goals scored in each of the last two Bundesliga seasons and a contract until 2021, it would seem on first glance that the Warsaw native is settled in Bavaria, but the 28-year-old is perturbed at the lack of support he got in his pursuit for the division's Golden Boot gong in 2016-17. He surrendered the prize to Borussia Dortmund's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang by a solitary strike.
"I was not really happy with how my team helped me. I was annoyed and disappointed with the team's attitude," he told the Polish Super-Express, as reported by Sky Sports.
Lewandowski's agent Maik Barthel also told German magazine Kicker that his client told him he had "no support" in his quest, and that manager Carlo Ancelotti didn't even enlist the team's help when the title was secured with three matches to spare. In the final clashes - against Darmstadt, RB Leipzig, and Freiburg - Lewandowski added two goals to his record.
Barthel added: "He was disappointed as I have ever seen him before."
Both reigning Premier League champion Chelsea and United are desperately looking to recruit up top. Diego Costa has been told he's surplus to requirements by Conte, leaving a slot in the middle of the Italian's front three vacant - with the exception of the sparingly used Michy Batshuayi. At Old Trafford, meanwhile, Zlatan Ibrahimovic has been released, while nothing materialised from the Antoine Griezmann pursuit after Atletico Madrid's transfer ban was upheld.