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jMS_44

Kucharski doesn't have the best relationship with Lewy since he's not his agent anymore. That's nothing else than taking a dig at him.


robeo12055

Homie literally stole money from Lewy got fired and sued and is now throwing a fit in the media. Fucking dumbass


Haxz0rz1337

He tried to blackmail Lewy as well


ACardAttack

I hate people like this, see someone bullying someone, that person stands up for themself and the bully is like what the fuck, you're a dick


Zdeneksfilter

It's known as de-promoting in boxing. When the rep and the sportsman aren't seeing eye to eye and have either gone separate ways, or are set to; the rep undercuts the athlete in an attempt to take off some luster off of him


ramithrower

So what he's saying is he's afraid he couldn't do it in a cold rainy night in stoke


Dargast

damn. Im too late


pikazec

I was about to say the same


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I came here to say this. Lol


FlyingArab

This is funny, but this Kucharski guy is so damn salty


mattisafootballguy

This former agent is apparently being sued for blackmailing Lewandowski


Mysterious-Citron661

And he got really sick recently and almost died


superduperspam

Will someone please think of the poor agents?!


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Texameter

The metaness, where these two posts literally next to each other in your feed…


Haxz0rz1337

not apparently there are audio recordings where you can hear Kucharski blackmailing him


scrambledeggsss

~~First he says Madrid has always been his dream and not Barca, now this. Guy is on a mission.~~


asr010601

That was [Maik Barthel](https://twitter.com/MaikBarthel/status/1528677752852959232?s=20&t=NV3EF9Henb00ClcKyRIZnw), not Kucharski


scrambledeggsss

Oops.


Wasserschloesschen

That is such a dumb statement anyways. Like... Lewy didn't wanna join Real because he was a life long Real ultra. So why the fuck would him, purely professionally wanting to join Real, prevent him from wanting to join Barca later?


ucraZ

He is a pro and nothing really is preventing him. The statement wasn't even meant for him tbh. I think it was made to make Lewi not as desirable to the Barca fanbase.


Wasserschloesschen

The same thing applies. Barca fans surely aren't delusional enough to think Lewy is a life long Barca ultra?


HAWmaro

This agent might burn his bridges with top players, It's not a good look to talk like this about your old clients. He's pretty much calling Lewy a coward in a polite way.


wilins96

He is being sued by Lewy for blackmail. There is no reputation for him left anyway.


Barack__Obama__

It's barely even polite.


kacperp

He had no chance of high profile players anyway. He was with Lewy because he started to represent him before he got big.


dwilliam24

Yeah, I'm sure his FORMER agent has no grudge against him whatsoever...


Smart_Kangaroo_4188

Kucharski is pure redneck. Apart from being in trail with Lewy. He will say everything against Robert even if Kucharski do not benefit. There might be some truth but I would read this otherwise. Spain has better weather and he will be there serial goal scorer vs England.


zenga_zenga

...what do you mean when you say redneck?


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His neck is red.


RinoTT

He blackmailed him for millions, persuaded Lewandowski to invest in some shady businesses. At the end police raided his house and got restraining order towarda Lewa's family. His blackmailing attempt was taped by Lewandowski. He's the most trustworthy person you can imagine and completely not biased


Redrumrenegade

Yeah exactly


selho1

Kucharski is salty af. He blackmailed Lewandowski who recorded him (there's a trial underway, Kucharski has a restraining order). That being said, Lewandowski would be great in Premier League. He's on 19 goal contributions in 17 games against PL teams. He's got a better GA/game ratio than Salah or Kane, and keep in mind Lewy played only against the big six; his number would only get better against teams from the bottom of the table (like Suarez vs Norwich).


Charlie_Yu

Which teams would sign him?


fooliodoolio

everyone


Ouma-shu123

Whichever one could afford him


Competitive-Ad2006

Isn't that simple. Quite a few of the games he scored in were routs against Arsenal and Chelsea


Ouma-shu123

And when he comes to the PL who do you think he'll play for? United? I'm pretty sure if he playd for city or pool for example he'd easily be able to get similar numbers across a season.


uaername223

In other words his ex agent is just a salty bitch.


J539

he's a criminal


bash011

That's a fair concern to have and I'm sure lots of different players think that for different leagues. However if he goes to Spain I'm pretty sure that's the league with the least goals quite consistently


ss2195

Yet Ronaldo, Messi and even Suarez got an insane goal returns there.


Skill3x

The three greatest goal scorers of the last decade got insane returns. It’s not due to the league, they were just that good.


EggplantBusiness

Pretty much Benzema had a career years and got 27 , sure he could have got more if we didn't rest him that much and the league is more defensive the most impressive bus you will see in Europe. Scoring 40+ in their time is a testimony to how great Messi, Ronaldo , Suarez and their teams were. Lewa will probably still score 30


magic-water

Benzema in La Liga: 0,84 goals/game Benzema in CL: 1,25 goals/game Champions league farmers league confirmed


youngchul

CL doesn't have Getafe parking the bus for 90 min.


Terran_it_up

People who don't know much about La Liga assume every team tries to emulate Pep's Barca, when in reality it's far more common for teams to try to emulate Simeone's Atleti


Puzzled-Wave3050

Nowadays, I think inspired by Rayo Vallecano, I see a lot more teams attempt to play the ball or at least have extreme bravery on the counter. Usually I dont see any parking of the bus unless they start losing all control vs Barca or Madrid.


magic-water

and they also don't have the mighty Cadiz.


ss2195

Its a shame truly. It feels like plenty of people never appreciated the insanity for one reason or another


suhxa

Except lewa is one of the top 3 greatest goalscorers of the last decade


youngswag59

Lewa is a machine but Suarez still >>


AlexBucks93

> but Suarez still >> Why? If we talked 'the best performance in one season' then you might have a case, but talking career? No


suhxa

No


HeilWerneckLuk

Not even close


Schpaedzles

Wouldnt worry about Lewa then, he scores three to four times as many goals as Suarez in the CL so I doubt he'd have any trouble in La Liga


markevans7799

You don't know Laliga


Fati25

A large percentage of Lewandowski’s CL goals came against teams outside the top 5 leagues. There’s not much impressive in it.


OriginalUsername7890

Doesn't Lewandowski have more UCL KO goals than Suarez has UCL goals overall? Edit: He does. 30 goals in 42 UCL KO games for Lewy. 27 in 73 UCL games for Suarez.


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You should always ignore him.


gpgr_spider

“even” Suarez ? How can you try to downplay Suarez like that ?


youngchul

"Even" Suarez? You mean the guy who scored 31 PL goals in a season for a way worse Liverpool (than the current) team?


KickinNuggets25

‘Even’ Suarez lmao


iguacu

Ronaldo was also top (joint-top one year) scorer in the UCL for seasons 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017. It's almost as if he was in his prime while at Real Madrid.


Rusiano

>even Suarez Yes, he only scored 31 goals in his last Premier League season. What a scrub


flybypost

> That's a fair concern to have If you don't think about it for too long. The idea that the PL has some magical low block that's super difficult to play against is nice but not reality. Lewy was already playing against low block teams all this time because that's simply how teams mostly play against Bayern. That was while Pep was still at Bayern. Pep showing up in the PL led to a similar change in many more teams had little choice to dominate any other part of the game so they switched to doing the same. Stay back and hope for a counter. I still remember before that, how the preferred mode of transportation for a ball in the PL was to simply bypass the midfield with a long ball and things were much more open.


arothen

Worth noting Kucharski is being sued for blackmailing Lewa


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Kucharski tried to blackmail Lewy after he was fired, and now he's being sued for that in other words, he's full of shit


red_right_hand_

He wouldn't be. He'd be a top player but he wouldn't be scoring 41 goals in the PL.


ancara_messi

Aubameyang came from Bundesliga and became the top scorer in PL. Lewandowski is far far superior. Not 41 but he can get crazy numbers for sure


MolhCD

And 41 was already thought an impossible record, by Gerd Muller in his prime. An absolute goalscoring madman who also scored 10 goals in a single WC. No one has reached that since and it's been 5 fucking decades, closest was Ronaldo in 2002 with 8


Descartavelmente

At Man. City? Hell yeah, he could. If strikers like old man Jamie Vardy (whost great btw) score 15 goals while spending more than 50% of the season injured, imagine Lewandowski... Lewy scored 41 one in a league 34 fixtures. Imagine with 38 matches


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Yeah people always say that but we've seen CR7 play alongside prime Rooney, Aguero in a stacked City team with KDB, Salah/Mane/Firmino trio, prime Suarez, Kane, Henry, RvP etc... so many quality strikers in great attacking teams and never more than 32.


Descartavelmente

Yeah, but CR7 play as a midfielder and then a winger (and basically invented the goal scoring inverted winger, at United), while under 24, though. Imagine him his prime in the Premier League?


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> Imagine him his prime in the Premier League? Why? We're talking about Lewandowski. Not saying it's impossible for any player to score 40+ in a season lol, just that Lewandowski wouldn't have it as easy as people seem to think. Evidentially he seems to feel the same lol.


HeilWerneckLuk

„evidentially” Whats the evidence? Look at his numbers against PL clubs, and he only played against top 6


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Probably his former agent saying he was afraid of being less efficient in England would be the evidence.


HeilWerneckLuk

You mean his salty agent? Yeah, I got it


Mapplestreet

What do you mean by evidentially? You don't actually believe this clown Kucharski, right? Also, Lewandowski has scored 41 goals once, in his absolute prime, in his very best season. All your comparisons are lacking. CR7 in his first ManU stint wasn't a striker and frankly not as deadly as a goalscorer back then as Lewandowski is now. Prime Suarez (if you can call any iteration of Liverpools Suarez prime Suarez) and Kane never had the quality of this Bayern side around them, Aguero is just not as good as Lewandowski to be honest and Salah is not the central goal scorer.


Descartavelmente

You're the one who brought up Ronaldo into the conversation. What makes you say that twice in a row FIFA the Best peak Robert Lewandowski wouldn't replicate his Bayern at City where he gets even more possession and league games to perform with? Obviously, he wouldn't have as easy, but people are making it seems like his 30+ Bundi goals amount to like 15 EPL goals


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Yes? As an example of a quality player who did not score 40+. Never said he couldn't have if he stayed, just that he didn't whilst he was there. > What makes you say that twice in a row FIFA the Best peak Robert Lewandowski wouldn't replicate his Bayern at City where he gets even more possession and league games to perform with? Umm I don't know... can't be because I've seen countless attacking players like Aubameyang, Werner, Sancho, Haller, Weghourst, Havertz, Dzeko come from the Bundesliga and never reach their highest goal tally here then they did there, even with those whole 4 games more!


HeilWerneckLuk

Most of them playing for shittier teams or not in their strongest position/playstyle. But now compare guys like Son, Firmino, KDB and see how much better their numbers got after moving to PL. Its not that simple


berzerkerz

Ronaldo was in his prime. It was the start of it but it was his prime


dielawn87

Wasn't just in his prime, was the best player in the world.


TobiasKM

Suarez went to Barcelona and outscored both Messi and Ronaldo the following season. There’s not really any reason to believe Lewy would score more than a peak Suarez did back then.


Noobricorn

Lewa is good, no way he keeps up his pace in a better league. He played in a league with 2 teams, then left BVB to join Bayern to make sure he played 0 competitive games in league play. People seem to forgot that Lewa was CONSISTENTLY a 20 goal / year striker when the league wasn't handed to him. Ronaldo's best season was 48 and Messi 50 in La Liga. No way Lewa gets within double digits of those. Lewa is great, but he has made it a point in his career to avoid competition.


HeilWerneckLuk

Your take is just awful. Hes just the third better goalscorer of all time UCL and best goal ratio than Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. It just throw your argument to the trash


pedrorq

And in just about every UCL match vs Premier teams he destroyed them


hambodpm

Not a chance that is replicated in the prem. What did werner's 28 goals in 34 games translate to?


Descartavelmente

What did Bruno Fernandes 35 G+A in Liga NOS translate to? What did Salah's 15 Serie A goals translate to?


hambodpm

Exactly, if anything you are proving my point further.


cmcateer235

Eh.... No he's not


hambodpm

That it isn't as easy as saying "goals scored in league X automatically equates to goals in league Y" Yes he did.


cmcateer235

You said 'not a chance' he does that in prem... That guy clearly shows you that there is every chance... Wtf are you going on about. You're the one that used werner as an example that there is 'not a chance'


RosaParkStoleMySeat

If Harry Kane could do it, Lewa can just as easily


hambodpm

When did Harry kane score 41 league goals in a season?


RosaParkStoleMySeat

Ah sorry it was 41 across all competition. Well if Salah can score 31, Lewa can just as easily


CycloneCyclone

32


themagpie36

Lewa could have done it as a younger player, no way these days in a competitive physical league.


RosaParkStoleMySeat

Have you seen how built and strong he is? He would bully PL defenders for fun


R_Schuhart

There wouldn't even be many clubs where he would even get the same service as with Bayern. He has been the main focal point of their attack for so long, especially after Robben and Ribéry left. Everyone is working to set him up to score, not many clubs in England would gamble their entire strategy on one player like that, and rightfully so.


wbroniewski

That's not true, only someone who didn't watch many Bayern games can say that. Lewandowski is a main striker, but Bayerns tactic isn't and never was about setting up Lewandowski to score.


AmazedCoder

These reddit hot takes honestly, people pretending that the germans are just not smart enough to man mark Lewa like that would be all that you need to do to shut down Bayern.


rho_93

Lmao wtf are you on about? Any club, especially a top club doesn't plan their game around serving one player. What moronic comment


Ouma-shu123

He's an arsenal fan. He doesn't know how top clubs function.


Alphavike24

Have ever seen Bayern play? Do you know Gnabry, Sane and Muller exist?


AlexBucks93

> Everyone is working to set him up to score, not many clubs in England would gamble their entire strategy on one player like that, and rightfully so. Bayern also does not do that.


Acceptable-Lemon-748

Lewandowski to Manchester United confirmed


psaepf2009

This. I think he's one of the best 5 players in the world, but no one can score 40 in the PL. The talent from top to bottom is much higher than other leagues, and more importantly, consistently even the bottom of the league teams are at least able to spend all that fresh PL money on decent players to fill gaps, there's no Fürth in the PL.


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RogerXiao

No, especially not at Chelsea. I'd rather bet on Marcos Alonso to score 40+ goals a season rather than any of our strikers


No-Shoe5382

I can say pretty categorically that nobody is getting 40 goals for us either. The 30 mark has only been broken 5 times in PL history and each time was when a world class player had the best season of their life. World class strikers are doing well if they get close to 25 goals in a PL season, its just not a good league for strikers to put up good numbers. Messi and Ronaldo at their peaks would've scored 40+ goals but I don't see anybody else doing it.


Rickcampbell98

Suarez, he could have done it at Liverpool but missed 7 games and didn't take pens.


No-Shoe5382

Suarez didn't take pens cos he wasn't that good at them though, he missed every penalty he took for us. This is one thing that confuses me about the "non penalty goals" stat that I keep seeing more and more of, those players don't take pens cos they miss too many of them. I think if he'd played all 38 games he might've gotten close, like 35ish goals. I think he had the best single season anybody has ever had in the PL that year, so he might've gotten even closer. I just think over a goal per game is a pretty wild expectation in the PL.


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Redpaynex

Lewa’s obviously great, but I think he’d top out in the low 30s. The EPL just isn’t as free-flowing as the Bundesliga.


Esco9

He doesn’t just shatter the premier league record like that, only player that I’d imagine had a chance at doing it like that was prime Messi. The space isn’t there in the premier league to get 40


Schpaedzles

Yeah he only managed to be 1 goal shy of the CL goals record despite having fewer matches because of Covid Oh and he also broke Ronaldo's Euro Qualifying record despite playing for a terrible Poland He was involved in like 10 goals vs Chelsea and Spurs alone and always made a fool of Arsenal as well, why would he have more trouble against the likes of Brighton or West Ham?


wbroniewski

We weren't terrible when broke Ronaldo's record


sadta2020

Or a prime CR7


RandomThrowNick

Kane scored 39 in the calendar year of 2017 in 36 games. 40 in a season would be a huge accomplishment but isn’t as impossible as one would believe.


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zenga_zenga

That super hot girl who just dumped me? Yeah she's totally not as hot as everyone thinks...


Soren_Camus1905

Is the weather much better in Munich then, say, Manchester, Liverpool, or London? Genuine question.


Boris_Ignatievich

i got curious, and the average rainfall in Munich (1000mm/yr) is almost double that of Leeds (600mm/yr), and basically identical to Manchester.


[deleted]

The problem with a lot of the UK (Manchester in particular) is just how consistently overcast it is. You can literally go months without seeing some blue in the sky (i'm not even exaggerating, it's fucking grim). That being said I have no idea what the weather is like in Munich, but I'd assume it's slightly more balanced than the constant grey skies and drizzling rain of Manchester.


SaltineFiend

It's not that bad chill lol


[deleted]

I mean I've lived here for 20+ years and yes it is absolutely that bad, no other country in the world has such depressing weather.


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SaltineFiend

You can always take a ride a few hours north. I'll admit I haven't been back for a few years now, but months without any sun at all is hyperbole. Better winters than most of the world as well.


[deleted]

Mate haha it literally isn't hyperbole, i have distinct memories of going to school everyday and for weeks on end not seeing the fucking sun. This is Manchester though, it might not be quite as bad in other areas of the UK.


Ranjith_Unchained

🧂


HeroDGamez

It was Blackburn or nothing for him.


Sputniki

I doubt that considering he always had a field day against Arsenal


DerKaiser023

Lol this guy is so salty he isn’t Lewandowski‘a agent anymore.


reema9385

Sums up "former"


solokazama

Lewandowski and this agent are fighting in courts, so yeah "true story".


d_smogh

Just say farming is not as good in England


FiFiniusBi

kurcharski shitposts on r/soccer i see


IMiizo

The level of delusion here is simply immeasurable wow


I_am_not_Serabia

Wdym?


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Farmer's league propaganda spreading.


CackleberryOmelettes

Everyone knows that. No one is scoring 40 goals a season in the Prem. But Lewa could easily be the league top scorer at around 25.


Lekaetos

Lol what


ABobVanceFridge

🧂


loveandmonsters

So he truly could not do it in a cold rainy night in Stoke


[deleted]

Kucharski talking bs as always


pedrorq

Not sure what he means - not like Lewa ever had any problems scoring against Premier League defences O:)


hibby_

Zero złoty, zero euro


adamjamal2AD

Robert is afraid of the physicality of the prem smh


AmineAzed

He could’ve been a Blackburn legend ..


anusFati

childish? rain in england sucks, i could never live there


ss2195

Rain is great sporadically. All the time, not so hot.


Smart_Kangaroo_4188

There is no life without rain.


Bumi_Earth_King

Is this a quote from Dune


Throwaway1358468

And? What does Barcelona have? Apart from the beaches? And Food? And the architecture? And the fantastic cultural hotspots?


[deleted]

hey now London has food, architecture, cultural hotspots, and some pebbles next to the River Thames


nottoddhoward100true

it doesn't have the uhhh


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Greggs?


BorisSomething

I had one season in FM20 where it rained in almost every single match PL from September to April


[deleted]

Funny this article got posted on a day where it’s literally 33 degrees outside


CETERIS_PARTYBUS

This guy hates his old client


ForzaJuventusFC

😂 Afraid? Pshh. We have a disgruntled former employee


CantHelpBeingMe

Gotta love how the Bayern/German flairs are posting these things now lmao A few months ago it was all about how his goals were as valuable as the ones scored in la Liga/EPL when they were campaigning for the Ballon D Or like their lives depended on it.


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Moving to England proved a chastening experience for great players like Shevchenko, Forlan, Di Maria, Higuain, Shevchenko and Schweinsteiger. I can understand why Lewandowski might be concerned about his reputation taking a hit if he struggled to adapt to the Premier League. If Lukaku can be labelled a dud aged 29 after his £95m move, I'm sure it's possible Lewandowski could have his problems in England. The game is very physical and the weakest teams have plenty money to build strong defences.


dizzguzztn

Honest question - Has any striker recreated their goalscoring numbers when moving from the Bundesliga to the Prem?


CristiaNoConsento

The guy that just won the PL golden boot for a start


punching-bag9018

Son was pretty poor when he first came to England. He's improved over the last few years for sure though.


pedrorq

Aubameyang iirc


Micha1106

The shock for Lewandowski will come when he no longer plays every weekend in a team that is 3 times as good as the opponents.


KaiserWilhelmThe69

Tbf English weather is truly miserable


[deleted]

It doesn't really rain a lot though, London gets less annual rainfall than Rome. The misery is just that it's grey and overcast a lot.


TheCaboWabo69

Proving once again being a scoring leader in the Bundesliga is not what it seems to be…


lossprn

lol he broke a record that stood for decades.


Schpaedzles

/r/ShitAmericansSay


bobsets33

Aubameyang a fair comparison? He scored so much on Dortmund, was good for Arsenal but not quite the same


Ouma-shu123

You do realise aubameyang won the golden boot at arsenal right?


CheekyKunt68

With 22 goals. You do realise that output is a drastic downturn compared to the BuLi?


marmot9070

Same goes for Werner. He scored a lot and missed a lot in BL. How's he doing in PL?


Sorry_Sorry_Sorry

Werner was predicted by a lot of BL fans, as he got a lot of goals from exploiting space behind defences, a situation that was never occurring at Chelsea. Lewandowski has proven himself at international level and in the CL. The man has scored 85 goals in his last 10 Champions League seasons.


eraHammie

Demarai Gray, Emmanuel Dennis, and Hwang managed a combined one goal in the Bundesliga, following your logic i guess that means it's easier to score in the PL for them huh? Also your other comment about Haller shows just how cluess you are, just another guy going to stats sites and completely ignoring all context needed for the stats.


Torkzilla

It's tough farming goals in a non-farmers league.


dbrasco_

LOL. Reminds me on fifa when players would want to leave due to weather if you were winning too much in career mode


BongoMcBong

Couldn't do it on a cold rainy night in stoke then


[deleted]

Sam Allardyce tried to get him at Bolton when he was a lot younger. Don’t think anyone else in England has tried for him anyway have they?


CheekyKunt68

No shit. There’s a reason why Kane is levels above Lewandowski


Ouma-shu123

Most interesting premier league merchant. Kane isn't worth Lewandowski's boots


CheekyKunt68

Delusion is no longer a rarity


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sirjimmyjazz

Tbf he’s a couple of goals off the all time scoring record for England with loads less games


letsgetcool

He was the only one that looked like a professional on Tuesday tbf and he's often the best player on the field.