Sadio Mane’s illustrious six-year Liverpool spell is set to come to an end at the start of next week, after Bayern Munich finally reached an agreement to sign him.
The Reds forward, who has won almost every domestic and European honour on offer at Anfield, made it clear that he wanted to leave the club this summer, with just 12 months remaining on his contract. And after weeks of negotiations between the two sides, a breakthrough was reached on Friday and the 30-year-old is now set to join the German champions in a deal worth £35.1million.
His exit draws the curtain on a Liverpool career which will see him recognised as a modern-day great and one of Jurgen Klopp’s greatest ever transfer decisions. But unlike the collective admiration for every Kop deal in 2022, there was some trepidation about spending £30million back in 2016.
