Bayern Munich's 10 best signings of the decade (2010-2019)

#7 Robert Lewandowski (2014)

Robert Lewandowski has scored more than 40 goals for Bayern in each of his last 4 campaigns

Bayern’s signing of Robert Lewandowski in the summer of 2014 marked a watershed moment in the Bundesliga; the Polish striker agreed to move to Bavaria on a free transfer after seeing out the remainder of his contract at the Bavarian side’s biggest rivals for the league title – Borussia Dortmund.

The move felt like a bullying tactic at the time, Bayern simply flexing their financial muscles by offering Lewandowski a bigger contract, but in the years that have followed it’d be hard to claim the Polish hitman has been anything but a huge success. At Dortmund, Lewandowski was excellent, but at Bayern, he’s developed into arguably the world’s best pure striker.

Lewandowski has won 5 successive Bundesliga title since arriving at the Allianz Arena, but his goalscoring feats are what really stand out; he hit 25 in his debut season, but in the following 4 campaigns he managed to score more than 40 goals. And as he currently has 30 in just 25 appearances in 2019-20, he could well smash his personal record of 43 this time around. It’s a remarkable record by anyone’s standards – and marks him out as perhaps Bayern’s greatest signing of the decade.