Berlin: Sadio Mané’s move from Liverpool to Bayern Munich was the Bundesliga champion’s coup, and the Bundesliga champion signed an off-the-shelf replacement for either striker Robert Lewandowski or winger Serge Gnabry. .. The 30-year-old Manet arrives in Munich on a three-year contract with sufficient star status to intensify the Bavarian attack. “Often the opposite, but this time the Bundesliga club has signed with the top Premier League players,” the German magazine Kicker commented last week. The Senegalese forward reportedly cost the German giant about £ 35 million (Euro 41 million, $ 43 million). This is slightly less than Liverpool paid him in 2016.
Decisively important for Bavaria is either Lewandowski, who claims that Manet’s “story has come to an end” in Munich in an attempt to move to Barcelona, or Gnabry, who is stuck by signing a contract extension. Can be replaced. In six years at Merseyside, Manet led the Liverpool transformation under the Premier League’s Jurgen Klopp-encountered serious candidates for major trophies. One of Klopp’s first major signatures, Manet wiped out the Champions League, Premier League, FA Cup, League Cup and Club World Cup titles during his time in Anfield.
‘Low maintenance’
Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher sees Manet as a great sign of Bavarian. “My favorite @LFC player of this era-less maintenance, better performance and no injuries,” Carragher told Twitter this week. “The trophies and goals are plentiful and a true Liverpool legend. Thank you, Saunders.” Another former Reds player, Dean Saunders, won the league title for the tenth consecutive year in Bayern and dominated for ten years. In the Bundesliga, he claims that his talent is wasted.
“The league is far from a challenge for Manet. He achieves his goal. They win 5-0 each week and only one team can win the league,” Sanders told TalkSport. .. “It’s not a challenge. He rides in an armchair, ignites his cigar, plays for Bayern in 3rd gear, coasts for 2 years and has the best 2 years of his life as a soccer player. I’ll ruin it. “
Manet scored 120 goals in 269 games in Liverpool. This is inferior to the astonishing 238 goals of the Bundesliga in eight years, when Lewandowski, who played in 252 Bayern games, voted twice for FIFA’s best men. But what made Manet a favorite in Liverpool was his all-round, energetic game. He can also play as if he were playing both wings, as if he were going through the middle.
Manet’s career began far away from the spotlight of the Allianz Arena. “In the village where you become a peasant, there’s nothing else to do. My childhood dream was to make history and win all the trophies,” he said in the documentary Sadio Mane: Made in Senegal. I am saying. Discovered by the French club Mets while playing in Dakar, about 400 km from his home village, he moved to France in early 2011. He left for RB Salzburg three years later, learned German and scored 31 goals in 63 games.
He helped them win the Austrian League and Cup Double in 2014 and graduated from the English Premier League when they were captured by Southampton. After spending two years on the south coast of England, Liverpool raided Manet. Manet became the second highest transfer in club history when the Reds paid him £ 37m. After Senegal wins the Africa Cup of Nations title for the first time and a winning penalty to compete in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, Manet faces a new challenge with Bavarian. – AFP
