{"id":301803,"date":"2025-11-19T20:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T20:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/301803\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T20:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T20:20:08","slug":"barcelona-asked-robert-lewandowski-to-stop-scoring-during-his-first-season-at-camp-nou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/301803\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona asked Robert Lewandowski to \u2018stop scoring\u2019 during his first season at Camp Nou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Robert Lewandowski has been scoring goals for fun since joining Barcelona from Bayern Munich back in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The striker netted 23 times during his first campaign at the club and helped Barcelona win the title under Xavi Hernandez. However, it\u2019s now claimed that Barca actually asked him to stop scoring at the end of the campaign to avoid paying an extra bonus to Bayern.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Sebastian Staszewski has written a new book on Lewandowski and says that with the title already secured, a Barca board member told the striker: \u201cRobert, we need you to stop scoring goals in the last two matches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The reason being that if Lewandowski hit 25 goals during the campaign, Barcelona would have had to pay Bayern a \u20ac2.5 million bonus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robert Lewandowski has been scoring goals for fun since joining Barcelona from Bayern Munich back in 2022. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1480,1481,403,99],"class_list":["post-301803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-barcelona-la-liga","tag-barcelona-team-news","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}