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#2 Robert Lewandowski (2010)
Widely considered one of the best strikers of his generation, Poland’s Robert Lewandowski is now persona non grata at the Westfalenstadion thanks to his 2014 move to Bayern Munich, but for 4 seasons prior to that, he was a hero at Dortmund thanks to his incredible goalscoring exploits after making a €4.5m move from Lech Poznan in 2010.
Lewandowski arrived as a prolific goalscorer – 21 goals in 34 games for Poznan in 2009-10 – but despite Dortmund winning the Bundesliga in his first season, his form didn’t truly translate as he scored just 9 goals in 43 games. By 2011-12 however, he became Die Schwarzgelben’s first-choice striker, and scored an incredible 22 league goals in just 30 games, finishing as top scorer as Dortmund won the Bundesliga and the DFB-Pokal.
From there the Polish hitman continued to bang the goals in, scoring 36 in 2012-13 – including 10 in the Champions League to help Dortmund to the final – and 28 in 2013-14. Along the way, he broke a club record by scoring in 12 consecutive league games and topped the Bundesliga’s scoring charts in 2013-14.
Although Dortmund didn’t receive a transfer fee for him when he moved to Bayern due to his contract expiring, the success he helped bring to the club definitely marks him out as one of their best signings.
