The striker says his new head coach\u2019s promised style played a big role in keeping him with the Bundesliga champions <\/p>\n
Robert Lewandowski has credited new Bayern Munich head coach Niko Kovac with playing a large role in keeping him at the Bundesliga champions.<\/p>\n
Lewandowski spent much of the summer looking for an exit from Bayern, with the striker\u2019s agent declaring it was time for him to take up a new challenge.<\/p>\n
Interest from the Premier League and Real Madrid followed, but the club were insistent they would not part with the reigning Bundesliga Golden Boot winner.<\/p>\n
Article continues below<\/span> <\/p>\n Juve on alert: Exiled Icardi may have already played his final game for Inter Sarri vindicated for dropping Kepa as Chelsea & Pedro impress in Spurs win Magnificent Mane takes centre stage as league leaders Liverpool put on a five-star show Lukaku sends reminder that his Man Utd career is far from over <\/p>\n In an interview published Wednesday,\u00a0Lewandowski told SportBild<\/em> his frustrations with the club at the end of last season, saying he felt\u00a0alone with no protection from critics.<\/p>\n However, he also declared his desire to remain thanks to the fans, and now has offered further credit to Bayern\u2019s new head coach, Kovac, who left Eintracht Frankfurt to take over from Jupp Heynckes following the 2017-18 season.<\/p>\n “I had a really good discussion with Niko Kovac,” Lewandowski told SportBild<\/em>, in quotes published in the print edition. “He understood how I felt. The coach explained to me how he wanted to play. I liked that, and because of that decided I wanted to stay. My mind set changed that day.<\/p>\n “I know I\u2019ve made mistakes, but I\u2019m only human.”<\/p>\n Lewandowski also says Bayern\u2019s insistence the club would not let him leave, along with sporting director\u2019s Hasan Salihamidzic\u2019s praise in calling him the world\u2019s best striker, played a big role in allowing him to recommit to the Bundesliga champions.<\/p>\n “I realised how important I am for Bayern and they weren\u2019t going to let me leave,” he explained. “That shows the level and stability of the club.<\/p>\n \u201cThat was the point I realised I wanted to give my all for the club once more. I\u2019m looking forward to my future at the club and in Munich. My heart is fully at Bayern again.”<\/p>\n While Lewandowski was frustrated by the criticism he received last season, he made no bones about wanting to improve on a frustrating finish to the season, which saw Bayern falter in the Champions League and the finals of the DFB-Pokal, along with the striker going goalless as Poland were eliminated from the World Cup in the group stage.<\/p>\n “The end of last season wasn\u2019t good,” Lewandowski said. “Not scoring in the semi-final against Real, losing the cup final, not scoring at the World Cup. That\u2019s been motivation for me.<\/p>\n \u201cI love playing football. I also know I need to work to be more successful. I want to push my boundaries and win more titles.”<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The striker says his new head coach\u2019s promised style played a big role in keeping him with the Bundesliga champions Robert Lewandowski has credited new Bayern Munich head coach Niko Kovac with playing a large role in keeping him at the Bundesliga champions. Lewandowski spent much of the summer looking for an exit from Bayern,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Editors' Picks<\/h3>\n