Sadio Mane (LW) to Bayern

Lets see whether the sale price is actually 42.5m pounds…
If so then its a good result for us. Now we need to get Mo and/or Bobby to sign!

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Love how Sky are haming it up as “bad news for Liverpool” as if we didn’t know this was happening, have just been standing our ground and already bought his replacement.

You know what’s bad news Sky? United letting the bloke they spent £90m on walking for free and their main target to replace him basically saying he has no interest.

Good luck Sadio, will go down as a legend in this period of the clubs esteemed history.

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All the best Sadio.

Love Sadio, but I’m comfortable with the situation.

Getting a decent fee for him. No undesirable behavior to force his way out. No feeling of disrespect to the club. Won everything and can now go and lose his legs at another club while we enjoy watching Diaz doing the business up and down that wing for another 5 years.

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Might as well be dead. He old.

He’s got 3 or 4 more seasons in him.

Now he’s in an easier league he’ll have less stress on his body.

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Good luck to Sadio Mane. Excellent player. Top man by all accounts too. He will do very well in the Bundesliga. Bayern are dominant over there, and presumably the refs won’t allow opponents to hack him down multiple times each game and ignore it! He does seem to get fouled a lot in the Prem, with lots of it ignored by the ref.

Be all that as it may, he is fast, strong, fit, has energy for days, is surprisingly good in the air, beats a man, and hits it into the back of the net. There is a heck of a lot to like, and he will go down as a legend for us.

There are slight questions as to whether or not there has been a small decline in outright pace. Arguably he isn’t beating a man one on one as easily, and even if that point is debatable, at his age he is at the start of a downslope. He is very fit, and he is moving to a slightly easier league, so I expect him to have 3-4 very productive years there, scoring lots of goals. Bayern will be very happy with him.

On our end, it’s the circle of life, innit?

Luis Diaz. Darwin Nunez. Carvalho might even get to that sort of level, but he’s still a few years back so let’s see. Jota is here, and in time Mo will be replaced too.

All this is to say new heroes will emerge. We can all give lots of examples of that throughout our illustrious history, and it is happening again, in front of our eyes, as Klopp builds his next great Liverpool team.

Good luck Sadio. YNWA

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Great player for us, no doubt, won all there was to win and one of my personal favourite players of the past six years.

However, he royally pissed me off with his “I’ve got wonderful, exciting news for after the final” thing that led us to believe he’d sign a new deal, and what we have since learned were £400k pw wage demands, so in another sense my main feeling at him going is “fuck him”.

He’ll play well in Germany no doubt, but he won’t get the love he got here from the fans or the manager. We move on and we’ll continue to win trophies without him, and a good chance we win the CL again before he does.

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Think the Athletic wrote that there were no demands or no negotiations. Probably made it clear to the club earlier that he plans to leave this summer.

I think it’s a nice story overall.

Came in from a lower level club, did brilliantly for 6 years, we’ll now get a little profit with him entering his 30’s.

He goes from a big club to another big club, new league, his last big financial reward and a new challenge.

No need for any bitter feelings from either sides. He only said he will make it clear after the final, he didn’t say he’d stay or leave. He gave his all and that’s all I can ask for.

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As his time ends he really was the first player of the Klopp era. The start of the evolution of a side which was at its pinnacle all conquering, he started the journey of bringing in players with world class potential and realising it here.

I’m actually very content with him moving on, the first half of last season he was good but nothing like the player he used to be. Since covid he had lost that yard of pace and burst which made him an absolute world class monster left winger. Second half of the season riding the wave of confidence after his AFCON exploits and bring moved centrally he was excellent.

Personally I think Mane is about to start to decline a bit, we’ve seen the burst go and a lot of his game is based around physicality so as that dwindles so may his performance levels. Some clever men said let players legs go elsewhere, so a farmers league would be ideal, keeping him fit and ready for the CL.

This day was coming, and so knowing we’ve recruited two world class forwards to pick up his legacy already means it’s nothing but good wishes and best of luck.

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“But come back to me on Saturday and I will give you the best answer you want to hear, for sure. It’s special.”

Yeah, but sorry no, that’s incredibly misleading when if his mind was made up to go he could have been far more neutral about it. All the major news outlets took it the same way I and others did.

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Dry up mate ffs…

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I watched the video of the interview, I didn’t get any positive or negative feeling. When they quote it as “it’s special”, who knows what he was thinking of. Maybe the final, opportunity to say goodbye to the fans with a victory, etc.

Anyway, each to their own of course, but I have zero complaints how Mane behaved while he was here. Fantastic professional and him and Bobby were often a little bit in the shadow of Mo (who is also great for us of course, but in comparison with Mane, was prone to saying a few stupid things in his time here) in the media.

Numerous times last season I was a bit shocked on such focus on Salah compared with almost nothing on the other two, especially Mane to be precise. He also had a bloody contract running out in the same summer.

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I’m not going to rewrite history just because some people are tearing up that he’s off.

He’s in the past, I’ve moved on. No bitterness here, but it doesn’t change the fact he was a bit of a dick right there.

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Yep agree ZB. Right before our biggest game of the season too which we then lost. Would have preferred if he kept completely quiet on the issue. However he’s a shy footballer doing interviews in a foreign language who has served our club superbly and won it all. He gave everything on the pitch but got absolutely nothing from refs but he kept on at it with a steely determination and no little skill. A player we were blessed to have and the PL so lucky to have grace the stage but he leaves under appreciated in this country and I suspect that (along with his mistreatment by refs) played at least a part in his decision to go.

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Yeah you don’t sound bitter at all…about one throwaway comment…after 5 years of incredible moments, fight, skill and trophies

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I enjoyed them at the time, I don’t feel a particular urge to dwell over them now. He was a great player for us, he’s not our player any more, my interest in him is pretty much nil just like it is for Gini and others who left.

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Yeah, this is exactly what i think happened and that he believed we were going to win.

You sound like a scorned lover