{"id":11397,"date":"2026-04-24T23:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T23:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/11397\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T23:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T23:51:11","slug":"lewandowski-to-mls-latest-on-chicago-fires-pursuit-of-barcelona-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/11397\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewandowski to MLS? Latest on Chicago Fire’s Pursuit of Barcelona Star"},"content":{"rendered":"

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MLS team Chicago Fire are reportedly unlikely to sign Robert Lewandowski upon the expiration of his contract at Barcelona this summer, according to The Athletic<\/a>. The Polish striker’s deal is up in June, and he has been heavily linked with a move to MLS in the past. However, Chicago’s interest lies elsewhere, especially with current striker Hugo Cuypers in fine form.<\/p>\n

A long winter of wooing Lewandowski <\/p>\n

Chicago reportedly pursued Lewandowski aggressively over the winter when it became clear that he would not immediately sign a contract extension to stay in Catalonia, but were unable to strike a deal. They were, at multiple points, in active talks for the striker, but a move never quite formulated,<\/p>\n

Lewandowski himself has admitted this future is up in the air.<\/p>\n

“I have to feel it. For now, I cannot tell you nothing (about what I will decide), because I\u2019m not even 50 percent sure which way I want to go. It\u2019s not for this moment,” he said last month.<\/p>\n

Priorities lie elsewhere <\/p>\n

Chicago are now believed to have turned their interest elsewhere, with numerous European names expected to be available after the 2026 World Cup. Current No.9 Hugo Cuypers<\/a>, meanwhile, has been in fine form to open the season, scoring six goals in five matches. He finished the 2025 campaign with 17 goals.<\/p>\n

Lewandowski’s form dropping <\/p>\n

This all comes at a tough time for the Pole, whose form has dropped in 2026. After scoring 27 goals in La Liga<\/a> last year, he has just 12 this campaign. Since the new year, he has found the net just four times in all competitions.<\/p>\n

It was a rough year for his country, too. Poland<\/a> failed to qualify for the World Cup, leaving the striker, 38, unlikely to play on the world’s stage in 2030.<\/p>\n

Chicago are on fire <\/p>\n

This all means little for the Fire, who have opened the season well. Chicago are fourth in the East, and are performing under former USMNT<\/a> manager Gregg Berhalter. They finished eighth in 2025, Berhalter’s first campaign in charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MLS team Chicago Fire are reportedly unlikely to sign Robert Lewandowski upon the expiration of his contract at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[92,1442,5852,4206,868,935],"class_list":{"0":"post-11397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-barcelona","8":"tag-barcelona","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-fifa-mens-world-cup","11":"tag-mls","12":"tag-poland","13":"tag-robert-lewandowski"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}