{"id":19551,"date":"2026-05-08T19:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T19:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/19551\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T19:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T19:08:07","slug":"two-serie-a-heavyweights-hesitant-about-move-for-barcelona-forward-romano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/19551\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Serie A heavyweights hesitant about move for Barcelona forward &#8211; Romano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Pini Zahavi in Catalonia, the future of FC Barcelona veteran striker Robert Lewandowski is expected to be resolved in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old centre-forward has an offer to continue at Bar\u00e7a for another season, but on a lower salary and a reduced role in the team.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, he is attracting strong interest from Chicago Fire in the MLS, <a href=\"https:\/\/barcauniversal.com\/barcelona-superstar-offered-lucrative-deal-worth-e15-million-plus-e5-million-by-mls-club\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">who are offering him a huge contract worth \u20ac20 million per season<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to that, Lewandowski is also being <a href=\"https:\/\/barcauniversal.com\/romano-ac-milan-and-juventus-check-on-barcelona-forwards-availability-no-option-ruled-out-yet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">courted by Serie A giants AC Milan and Juventus<\/a>, with Zahavi holding meetings with the clubs prior to his visit to Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>Milan, Juventus having doubts about Lewandowski move<\/p>\n<p>However, now, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YYsa8egf4Hg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Fabrizio Romano<\/a>, both AC Milan and Juventus are hesitant to move forward with their interest in Lewandowski this summer.<\/p>\n<p>With regard to Milan, the journalist states that there is no total consensus within the club about signing the 37-year-old veteran star.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/atletico-de-madrid-v-fc-barcelona-laliga-ea-sports-8-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Lewandowski of FC Barcelona\" class=\"wp-image-196637\"  \/>Where will Lewandowski play next season? (Photo by Aitor Alcalde\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>While some higher-ups are in favour of a move for the Barcelona ace, there are others who strongly believe that the player\u2019s age and transaction costs exceed the club\u2019s current criteria.<\/p>\n<p>As for Juventus, who have reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/barcauniversal.com\/barcelona-veteran-offered-one-year-contract-worth-e6m-plus-bonuses-by-serie-a-giants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">offered a deal worth \u20ac6 million per year<\/a> to Lewandowski, there is less and less enthusiasm about the transfer, with concerns about the striker\u2019s age and the costs of the operation.<\/p>\n<p>Romano also states that Inter Milan have no interest whatsoever in signing Lewandowski, as the Serie A champions are happy with their settled attacking unit.<\/p>\n<p>So, with Milan and Juventus hesitating, Lewandowski might miss out on the opportunity to secure a transfer to Italy in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>MLS remains a strong option, while clubs in Saudi Arabia have also presented Lewandowski with offers. The idea of a continued stay at Barcelona is not ruled out either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Pini Zahavi in Catalonia, the future of FC Barcelona veteran striker Robert Lewandowski is expected to be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[180,92,222,223,1238,935],"class_list":{"0":"post-19551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-barcelona","8":"tag-ac-milan","9":"tag-barcelona","10":"tag-barcelona-news","11":"tag-fc-barcelona","12":"tag-juventus","13":"tag-robert-lewandowski"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19551","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=19551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}