Sadio Mane joined Bayern Munich in a £35.1million agreement from Liverpool earlier this summer and the German champions have now signed the player who drove the forward to training.
Désiré Ségbé Azankpo is a 29-year-old Beninese international who has been close friends with Mane – who netted on his Bayern debut this weekend – throughout his personal career, but the two have had very different paths in football across the past decade.
The two players initially met at the Génération Foot club in Senegal before both moving to French club Metz, where they continued their close friendship. However, the past decade saw Mane reach the very elite of football with spells at Red Bull Salzburg, Southampton, Liverpool and now Bayern.
