This season, Xavi has created an FC Barcelona team with a highly balanced squad of veterans and youngsters. Several teenagers have made themselves an integral part of the team, while veterans have locked some other positions in the team sheet.
One of the more aged players in the squad who is a guaranteed starter in Xavi’s team is the striker Robert Lewandowski. The Pole has been performing at the highest level in Europe for almost a decade now but still remains one of the most lethal strikers, and undoubtedly the leader of the attack for Barcelona.
Saudi Arabia can return for Lewandowski
However, as already reported here previously, there was a possibility of the Pole not being at FC Barcelona this season, as several attempts were made by Saudi Arabian clubs to woo Lewandowski away from the Catalan club and to the rapidly growing Middle Eastern country.
While Lewandowski resisted all these attempts by the Arabs to try to bring him to Saudi Arabia in the summer, Radio Catalunya now reports that the danger has not yet subsided. The report mentions that Barcelona are still facing the threat of Saudi clubs coming back for Lewandowski in the winter window.
Lewandowski’s family does not want to move
Still, Barcelona would be encouraged by the fact that Lewandowski did not agree to join the Saudi side this summer, and his family is also not in favor of leaving Barcelona, which also plays in Barcelona’s favor.
Furthermore, Lewandowski will be less likely to change clubs in the middle of the season, unless things go worsen drastically for him over the next few months.
FC Barcelona had already lost Franck Kessie to a Saudi club, Al-Ahli, in the summer. This is a part of the massive investments that Saudis are making to develop football in their country, and have already gotten stars like Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema, Sadio Mane, N’golo Kante, and Gabri Veiga, etc. to play in the Saudi league.