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22-02-2020 | 16:54 Football
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Robert Lewandowksi speaks out on his former coaches Jurgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola

Robert Lewandowksi has spoken out on his former coaches Jurgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola as both are now managers in the Premier League. Lewandowski has played under Jurgen Klopp in Borussia Dortmund from 2011 to 2014, after he moved to Bayern Munich in 2014 and played under Pep Guardiola. “At Dortmund we bet that if I score 10 goals [in training] then Jurgen Klopp gives me €50,” Lewandowski told the Guardian. “The first training sessions, I score three or four. Then after five, six, seven sessions I score seven, eight. Then after three months I score every training more like 10. “After a few weeks Jurgen said: ‘No more, it’s too much for me. I don’t want to pay you any more.’ That was part of my mentality. That was very helpful for me. And good in another way. “Before I had a lot of problems with my body language – being more a part of the game and training. My body language was the same. Sometimes you have to be more angry. For me that was never going to happen. “I had to change. That was under Klopp. He told me sometimes he didn’t know if I was angry or happy. “Nobody likes changing something in yourself. That was not easy. But I knew if I wanted to be a better player and move to the next step in my career I had to start. “He is an amazing guy. It doesn’t matter what he says: you believe him. Everything is from the heart.” “I learned a lot from Pep,” Lewandowski added. “We spoke a lot about tactics and for me that was something new. I knew that if I could play for Guardiola with his mind and his ideas – about tactics, about strikers – that it would be good for me. “In modern football it’s very difficult to play without a striker. I’ve not seen that for a few years. “They [Guardiola and Klopp] are different trainers but if you make a mix from both it would be perfection.” source - Goal

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