Barcelona striker Robert Lewandowski has hit out at Bayern Munich over their claims in the final weeks of his time in Germany.

Bayern Munich repeatedly insisted that the Pole would have to stay and fulfil his contract, but the striker puts this down to club politics.

"I feel that I'm in the right position, right place," he said of his transfer to Barcelona, during an interview with ESPN.

"Everything that happened in the last maybe few weeks before I left Bayern Munich, that was also of course a lot of politics.

"The club tried to find an argument why they can sell me to another club because before it was difficult to explain maybe to the fans and I had to accept that even though it was a lot of bulls***.

"A lot of s**t was said about me. It was not true, but in the end I knew that the fans, even in this period, still support me a lot.

"I had a very good relationship with my teammates, with the staff, with the coach, and these are all things I'm going to miss because I spent a beautiful time there.

"We were not only friends from the pitch but also something more, but in the end this chapter is over and I open a new chapter in my life and a new chapter in my career."

The striker also dismissed the suggestion that he wanted out of Bavaria because Bayern Munich were considering bringing in Erling Haaland as competition, something that didn't ultimately happen in any case.

"No, that was nothing to do with Erling," he said.

"I am the guy who even if something's not good for me, truth is more important.

"I don't want to speak about what happened exactly, but if the question is if the decision to move was because of him, no, I didn't see the problem if he joined Bayern Munich.

"Some kind of people doesn't say to me the truth, say something different.

"For me it was always important to be clear, to stay true, and maybe for a few people that was the problem.

"In the end I know that something doesn't work well with my person as well and I knew that, OK, I see and I feel that maybe it's a good time to move out of Bayern Munich and join Barcelona."