While Mohamed Salah pledged to be at Liverpool next season, Sadio Mane instead opted to tease and tantalise. They have been twinned in attack for years, Jurgen Klopp’s two top scorers and two inverted wingers, and the two Africans find themselves in a similar situation again. Each is out of contract in 2023. No deal has been agreed with either amid a sense of an impasse.
The Champions League final will not be a valedictory outing for the Egyptian. It still could for the Senegalese, whose admirers apparently include Bayern Munich. Yet while he was non-committal in one respect, he dropped a hint his future lies at Anfield. “Come back to me on Saturday and I will give you the best answer you want to hear, for sure,” Mane said. “It’s special. I will give you all you want to hear then.”
