When Lewandowski almost came to the Premier League #shorts

Robert Lewandowski almost joined Blackburn Rovers, but a twist of fate led him down an insane career path.

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00:00Did you know that Robert Lewandowski was one flight away from joining Blackburn Rovers

00:03but a volcano eruption literally changed everything.

00:06Back in 2010 Robert Lewandowski was tearing it up in Poland for Lech Poznan.

00:10Sam Allardyce was manager at the time at Blackburn and he saw an opportunity to bring him to

00:14the Premier League.

00:15£4 million deal was all but agreed.

00:17Lewandowski was ready to fly from Poland to the UK and complete the formalities.

00:21In 2010 Iceland had a massive volcano eruption.

00:24Eja Lajelofocal erupted and the whole of European flights were being cancelled left, right and

00:28centre.

00:29Was Robert Lewandowski's.

00:31In that time while Blackburn were waiting for everything to come back to normal, Borussia

00:34Dortmund had already swept in.

00:36Jurgen Klopp was manager at the time and brought him to the club.

00:38Lewandowski turned into a goal machine, over 600 career goals, 9 Bundesliga titles,

00:43he became one of the most iconic centre forwards in a generation.

00:47As we all know now he was a Ballon d'Or contender at one point and

00:50meanwhile for Blackburn just two seasons later they got relegated.

00:54So one cancelled flight changed everything and potentially Lewandowski's career could have

00:58been completely different.

01:00Would he have flopped in the Premier League?

01:01Would he have still scored so many goals?

01:03I'd probably make the argument he would have been absolutely fine.

01:05I mean this guy literally scored five goals in nine minutes in the Bundesliga.

01:09But hey follow us for more because there's more transfers that nearly happened and these

01:12stories are crazy.