The clause that would put Robert Lewandowski's future at FC Barcelona at risk

Robert Lewandowski has started the 2024-2025 season like a shot. The Pole has positioned himself as the top scorer in LaLiga EA Sports, celebrating four goals in the first four games of the championship and being a key piece in the unbeaten run of the squad managed by Hansi Flick in the league competition. At 36 years old, the player continues to show on the field that he is one of the best in the world in his position, and the club is more than delighted with his performance.

However, from next season everything could change. The striker will enter his last year of contract once the 2025-2026 season begins...

Although he must meet a fundamental condition in the coming months to ensure his continuity in the Ciudad Condal

... and that is that the player is going through his third season wearing the blue and red shirt, a shirt that he has worn since the summer of 2022 when he made a great effort to get Bayern Munich to agree to transfer him to the Catalan club.

At Can Barça they signed him an ascending link, trusting in the great state of form that he was in at 34 years old. The salary for the first year was set at 20 million gross euros, an amount that reached 26 million in the second and reaches 32 million in the third. From July 1, 2025, his fee will drop again to 26 'kilos', although his stay in the team will depend on a key requirement that he must meet this year.

The clause that allows Barça to get rid of Lewandowski

The offices of the Spotify Camp Nou included a clause in the forward's contract that allows the Blaugrana institution to terminate Lewandowski's contract if he does not play 55% of the games. In addition, only the games in which he starts or plays a minimum of 45 minutes in each of them are counted.

Despite this, and in view of his spectacular start to the season, it does not seem that Robert will have too many problems to reach this percentage of games. The goalscorer is indisputable for Hansi Flick, who has in him and Lamine Yamal the two pillars of his attack.

In fact, the German only rested him in the last quarter of an hour of the last game played before the international break and everything points to 'Lewy' reaching 100 games as a culé this Sunday against Girona. As of today, there is nothing that could move the striker from the German eleven, so his presence in the team during the next season, which is the main objective of the player, is practically a certainty.