likely to leave next summer and
revealed Mario Gotze's transfer was
more upsetting in the last campaign
than the Champions League final
Borussia Dortmund coach Jurgen Klopp
believes Robert Lewandowski will
definitely join rivals Bayern Munich next
season.
The Schwarzgelben have denied the
Poland international, whose contract runs
out in 2014, a move away from Signal
Iduna Park this summer, with the
Bavarians having led the chase to sign the
striker.
Klopp has accepted that it will be
impossible to keep the 24-year-old from
Bayern's clutches beyond the current
season but is keen to make the
relationship between forward and club
work in the coming 12 months.
"I think it is a known fact that Robert is
going to play for Bayern after the
upcoming season," he told Welt am
Sonntag. "Now the only question is how
to shape the time until then.
"That is our concern and it is our
commitment to our fans and members to
ensure that we will have a more
competitive team in the upcoming
season.
"Up to a certain point we were with
Robert's desire for change and were
ready to talk. But nothing happened so
we had to eventually say: '[A sale] now no
longer works for us.'
"And now we want to prove that, with a
quality player like Robert, we can be
successful in the coming year. Our results
in the coming season is what we're all
about. I know that Robert and I see it
the same way."
The BVB coach also revealed that Mario
Gotze's €37 million move to the Allianz
Arena, which was agreed in April, was
more upsetting than the club's eventual
Champions League defeat to Bayern in
the final.
"That was the bigger disappointment in
the moment [than the Wembley loss],"
Klopp added. "Mario was, until mid-April,
a key part of our planning. And suddenly
we were confronted with the reality that
he wasn't.
"That was pretty tough. Basically, it is
normal if a football club want to sign a
player from another team. We do, too.
But it was the timing of the notification of
the transfer, the day before our
important semi-final against Real Madrid,
which was something disreputable. But,
otherwise, there was little in the last
season that was painful."
Despite Bayern's tendency to outspend
Dortmund, Klopp is happy with how his
side operate and favourably compared his
side to English folk legend Robin Hood
against the reigning German, DFB-Pokal
and European champions.
"It will be infinitely hard [to win the
Bundesliga this season]," he continued.
"Bayern were quite possibly the best
team in the world last season.
"But they did not beat us yet in the
league on both occasions. And maybe we
can also use the fact that we have not
won anything in the last season, pulling
against a certain power and greed.
"We have a bow and arrow. And if we aim
accurately, we can hit them. Only the
Bavarians have - I feel - a bazooka. The
probability that they will hit us is so much
larger. Nevertheless, Robin Hood is said
to be very successful!"
Source: goal.com
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