Borussia Dortmund hope Robert Lewandowski will remain at team - The Guardian

The Borussia Dortmund coach, JArgen Klopp, is optimistic Champions League hero Robert Lewandowski may remain at the Westfalenstadion next year. Lewandowski was the scourge of Real Madrid on Wednesday night, rating all four targets in an excellent specific screen as Dortmund shocked JosA Mourinho's side 4-1 in the very first leg of these semi-final tie. The 24-year-old Poland striker is going of contract at the end of next season and has so far declined to agree to a fresh package, meaning Dortmund must now consider whether to cash in at the end of the season or threat lose him for nothing in 2014. Speculation in Germany has encouraged Bayern Munich are leading the race to sign Lewandowski and set him up once again with Mario GAtze, Dortmund's Germany playmaker who this week agreed a shift south after Bayern met his release condition. The agent of the Bayern coach, Jupp Heynckes, even believed this week Lewandowski had a contract set up with the Bundesliga winners but Klopp is prepared to play the waiting game. "I don't obtain the experience Robert is on the run," Klopp told ZDF tv. "We'll have to see what happens." Lewandowski refused to talk about his future post-match however the Dortmund basic manager, Hans-Joachim Watzke, discussed the club's determination to keep him for another 12 months even when it indicates seeing him ultimately depart on a totally free transfer. "Our hope is explicit that he stays here," he told Sky tv. "We may also do without receiving a transfer price for him a' that doesn't interest us at all. Robert's contract runs until 2014 and, unlike Mario GAtze, there is no get-out clause." Klopp thinks Lewandowski wrote his name in to Dortmund folklore on Wednesday evening, adding: "Whenever I go through the Borusseum [the club's museum], I usually start to see the same old films. Maybe today Robert's four objectives will see a place in there, but for that to occur, we've surely got to build on this in the second leg." Despite holding a fine first-leg guide, Klopp demands his part won't relax in next week's return at the BernabAu. "We are not a staff who will only guard a result," he said. "We usually want to strike. I brought [Sebastian] Kehl and [Kevin] Grosskreutz onto improve us defensively, and first thing they did was in the True Madrid penalty area. I do believe that says all of it. "We have played an exceptional game against a fantastic group, but nothing has been decided yet. But even if we get pulled out, no body usually takes this night away from us."

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