Barcelona membership retailer could not promote Lewandowski jerseys as a result of it had run out of the letter ‘W’

Barcelona‘s signing of Robert Lewandowski has brought about such pleasure {that a} membership retailer needed to cease promoting jerseys bearing his identify — as a result of it has run out of the letter “W.”

Based on a video posted to social media on Tuesday, a fan at one of many membership’s official shops requested an worker why he was unable to buy a Lewandowski shirt.

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“We have no extra of the letter W, and Lewandowski has two. It is bought out,” the workers member replied.

ESPN has approached Barcelona for remark.

The departure of Senegal worldwide defender Moussa Wague this week left ahead Martin Braithwaite as the one different participant within the Barcelona males’s or ladies’s first-team squads whose identify features a “W.”

The letter W is extraordinarily uncommon in Spanish and in Catalan, with the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) saying the letter’s use is restricted to “phrases of Germanic origin akin to Wagnerian… or Anglicisms, as in Washingtonian or whiskey.”

Barcelona have defied their tight finances to drag off a string of offers this summer season, with teenager Pablo Torre, AC Milan midfielder Franck Kessie, Chelsea defender Andreas Christensen and Leeds winger Raphinha all arriving.

None of these signings, nevertheless, has generated as a lot enthusiasm as Lewandowski’s, which is comprehensible on condition that the 33-year-old is certainly one of soccer’s greatest-ever purpose scorers.

The Poland worldwide was runner-up to Lionel Messi for the 2021 Ballon d’Or, received the FIFA Finest Males’s Participant award in 2020 and 2021, and took the Golden Boot for Europe’s most prolific finisher prior to now two seasons.

His arrival was made official on Tuesday — after a deal in precept was introduced on the weekend — with Barca paying Bayern Munich a switch payment of €45 million, plus a possible €5m in variables, and the participant signing a four-year contract with a €500m launch clause.

Lewandowski flew to Miami, the place Barcelona have been based mostly for the beginning of their preseason U.S. tour, to fulfill his new teammates and go a medical as the ultimate particulars of his contract have been agreed.

He didn’t characteristic in Barca’s 6-0 win over Inter Miami on Tuesday however may make his debut for the membership of their Clasico conflict in opposition to Real Madrid in Las Vegas this weekend.