Lewandowski's reluctance to sign a new contract with Bayern began to cause discontent at the Allianz Arena. The Polish star has scored 40 goals this season and scored a hat-trick in the Champions League 7-1 win over Red Bull Salzburg in midweek. Still, Bayern's star Basler attacked Lewandowski, suggesting he was a heroine who wanted the club to listen to every whim of his. In the history of the club, which has a great No. 9 player, there is no shortage of big-name strikers leaving the team, but every time the team has found the right replacement.
Klinsmann
Klinsmann scored one goal after another for Tottenham Hotspur in 1994-95, and his goal shocked British fans. In 1997, he ended his three-year wait for the Bundesliga title and became a big fan of Bayern. In 1997, when the German World Cup-winning man, who scored 48 goals in 84 club games, followed Sampdoria to Italy, Bayern fans may have worried about who would make their goal. Their fears didn't last long: Elber came here that summer to form a brilliant attacking combination with Janker, the two of whom gave Bayern a few minutes of title joy in the Champions League final against Manchester United in 1999, and they excelled in the 2001 game against Valencia.
Claudio Pizarro
Lewandowski (336 goals) and Elber (139 goals) are the only two non-German strikers who have scored more goals at Bayern than Evergreen and Peruvian Claudio Pizarro (125 goals). The 43-year-old is now a club ambassador, having won six league titles in two of the club's careers, during which time he also played for Chelsea and Werder Bremen. When he first left in 2007, Bayern quickly acquired Luca Tony from Fiorentina, the Italian who scored 58 goals in 89 games. The second time was in 2015, and the Lewandowski era had already begun.
Klose
Tony isn't the only one who has helped fill Pizarro's gap. Before Lewandowski, there was a time when Bayern held more than one world-class striker in their hands. Tony and Klose worked together for three seasons, and Klose ended his Bayern trip in 2011, the italian's second year back in Serie A with Roma. As the quintessential penalty area fox, Klose arguably dedicated his best years to the German national team, becoming the top scorer in German history with 71 goals. Meanwhile, his 53 goals in 150 bayern games should not be overlooked and his six major honours should also be remembered.
Mario Gomez
Unlike Klose, Gomez arguably contributed his best form to Bayern rather than the German national team. For his country, Gomez remains an awesome scorer, a long-term replacement for Pizarro and Tony. Fundamentally, he was the reason the club allowed the two to leave. Gomez signed from Stuttgart for £30 million in May 2009 and scored 113 goals for Bayern before travelling to Fiorentina in 2013, with one goal every 99 minutes.
Mandzukic
Due to Mandzukic's state, Gomez was allowed to leave. Mandzukic was absent from the starting line-up for much of his final season at the Allianz Arena. Heynckes spent €13 million to get the tall centre-forward from Wolfsburg, and his trust in the Croatian was rewarded, and they gained a lot in their two years at the club. Mandzukic scored 22 goals in all competitions – three of them in the Champions League – and Bayern won the European Treble in 2013, but in 2014 Guardiola sent him to Atletico Madrid on the grounds that his style was "unfit".
Lewandowski
Lewandowski's style suits Guardiola and every Bayern coach since then, and almost no one will forget his record of scoring five goals in nine minutes against Wolfsburg in September 2015. If he does leave, Bayern will of course find another world-class No. 9 with a record of outstanding goals.