{"id":19312,"date":"2012-06-08T17:18:24","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T14:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=19312"},"modified":"2024-02-17T13:02:52","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T10:02:52","slug":"robert-lewandowski-set-for-manchester-united-transfer-says-poland-coach-euro-2012-news19312","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/robert-lewandowski-set-for-manchester-united-transfer-says-poland-coach-euro-2012-news19312\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Lewandowski Set For Manchester United Transfer, says Poland Coach \/ EURO 2012 News"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Lewandowski.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19323\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Lewandowski-e1339165026169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1>Borussia Dortmund striker Robert Lewandowski is set for a summer move to Manchester United, according to Poland boss Franciszek Smuda.<\/h1>\n<div>\n<p>The 23-year-old hit man, who plundered 22 Bundesliga goals last season, has been on the Premier League giant\u2019s radar for some time, and now it seems United may have finally made a major move to bag their man.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Lewy&#8217; is going to Manchester United, Kuba [Jakub Blaszczykowski] also somewhere in England, [Lukasz] Piszczek to Real [Madrid],\u2019 Smuda told Reuters.<br \/>\nThey \u00a0have a goal and they want to grow. I base the squad on them.\u2019\u00a0Lewandowski\u2019s former Dortmund team-mate, Shinji Kagawa, has already signed for the Old Trafford outfit, and it would be a significant coup for United if they could land yet another of the Bundesliga champions\u2019 prized assets.<\/p>\n<h2>Poland kick off Euro 2012 with the opening game of the tournament against Greece in Warsaw tonight, and Arsenal goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny is hoping the co-host\u2019s strong Dortmund contingent can help them spring a major surprise on the continent\u2019s football elite.<\/h2>\n<p>\u2018Anything can happen. I don\u2019t see any reason why we can\u2019t follow the example of Greece in 2004. Or Denmark in 1992, when they didn\u2019t even initially qualify for the finals but went on to win it,\u2019 Szczesny said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018If you were to look at it realistically, then we have got no chance whatsoever to become champions of Europe. But it\u2019s just that by no means do these things always turn out as predicted.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018At previous big tournaments, in fact all those we\u2019ve participated in during the 21st century, we\u2019ve lacked players performing at the highest level for Europe\u2019s biggest clubs.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018That\u2019s no longer the case. No one can tell me that Borussia Dortmund isn\u2019t one of Europe\u2019s top sides, and three Polish players have been key to their recent successes.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018With such gifted individuals we have the chance to achieve something more than our predecessors did.\u2019<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Borussia Dortmund striker Robert Lewandowski is set for a summer move to Manchester United, according to Poland boss Franciszek Smuda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,80,63,135,1,118,14],"tags":[24629,24626,77203,2225,24105,6757,24628,24625,24627,24617,24621,24618],"class_list":["post-19312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-football","category-general","category-hot","category-world","tag-arsenal-goalkeeper-wojciech-szczesny","tag-borussia-dortmund-striker-robert-lewandowski","tag-euro-2012","tag-manchester-united","tag-manchester-united-transfer","tag-poland","tag-poland-franciszek-smuda","tag-poland-lewandowski-transfer","tag-polish-players-transfer-premier-league","tag-robert-lewandowski","tag-robert-lewandowski-euro-2012","tag-robert-lewandowski-transfer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78971,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19312\/revisions\/78971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}