Liverpool took the gloves off as they rejected ‘out of hand’ a second bid for Sadio Mane.
Bayern Munich submitted their follow up attempt to prise the Senegal striker away from Anfield on Monday evening with a formal offer of £23.5m, with additional add-ons of around £6.5m to take the total close to £30m.
But the Reds have dismissed the offer as a ‘joke’, pointing out that some of the bonuses included in the bid would be close to impossible to achieve.
