Sadio Mane left Liverpool for Bayern Munich after the two sides agreed a €41m deal on this day in the summer of 2022
Having won everything there was to win at Anfield, the 32-year-old called time on his Reds career two years ago in favour of a £35m switch to Bavaria. But while he would win the Bundesliga title in his first season in Germany, his maiden campaign ultimately proved to be disappointing.
READ MORE: Khvicha Kvaratskhelia provides update on future as Liverpool learn Joshua Kimmich transfer stanceKopites waved off the forward with a heavy heart, having seen him score 120 goals during his six seasons on Merseyside to first fire Liverpool back into the Champions League for only the second time since 2009, before helping them win six trophies and be crowned champions of England, Europe and the world.
Mane was actually Klopp’s first marquee signing at Anfield as he sought to turn doubters into believers, brought in at the start of the German’s first full season at the club. And his desire to sign the Senegalese from the Saints as he looked to bolster his attack stemmed from a previous transfer misfire which left the Liverpool boss admitting he could have punched himself.
“His baseball cap was askew, the blond streak he still has today. He looked like a rapper just starting out. I thought, ‘I don’t have time for this’. I’d say I have a pretty good feeling for people, but was I wrong! “Since I came here I have spoken to the staff a lot about him and have always felt he could be a very good signing for us. He would have been more expensive if we had taken him to Dortmund and then he had been sold to Liverpool, so all good for Liverpool. The more I think about it, that was my first Liverpool decision. Nice!”
“I still remember the first time I got the call from Klopp. I was watching TV. It was an action movie - because I love movies - and he said, ‘Sadio, listen, I want to explain to you what happened at Dortmund.’
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