Liverpool’s Jurgen Klopp slammed as Sadio Mane transfer ‘failure’ emerges

Liverpool’s Jurgen Klopp has been criticised after the Premier League brought in fthe ive substitutions rule as Lionel Messi ‘failed’ to persuade Sadio Mane to join Barcelona

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Jurgen Klopp has been slammed for “moaning” by Everton winger Andros Townsend.

The former Crystal Palace and Tottenham Hotspur ace has spoken out about Premier League plans to implement the five substitution rule next season. Klopp has long been an advocate for the introduction of the rule, but Townsend says it is only coming in as Klopp kept “constantly banging on and on” about it.

It comes as Lionel Messi’s failed attempt to try and persuade Sadio Mane to move to Barcelona has come to light. And the Senegal international has explained why he has chosen a new shirt number following his move to Bayern Munich.

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Klopp slammed

Jurgen Klopp has “found a way to get his way” following the introduction of five substitutes in the Premier League, according to Andros Townsend.

The Everton winger says Klopp has been “constantly banging on and banging on” about the implementation of the rule, which will be introduced for the 2022/23 Premier League season. It comes after five substitutes were temporarily allowed during the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, although when Premier League clubs subsequently voted to install the rule permanently it failed on three occasions.

But at a Premier League Shareholders’ meeting back in March a decision was made to bring the rule in, and Townsend has hit out at the decision, and Reds manager Klopp, over the whole ordeal.

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Messi’s Mane transfer ‘failure’

Lionel Messi failed in his attempts to try and persuade Sadio Mane to swap Liverpool for Barcelona last summer, according to the Bayern Munich forward’s agent.

Mane’s advisor Bacary Cisse says PSG ‘attacked’ his client over a potential move, and that before he secured his own move to the French capital Messi told Barcelona he wanted them to sign the Senegal international. Messi is known to be a big admirer of Mane’s and reportedly told Barca that he wanted them to sign Mane “and an Argentinian central defender” in order to remain at the club.

But instead, the Senegal international opted to spend the year at Liverpool, where he won the League Cup and FA Cup while finishing second in the Premier League and Champions League as well.

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Mane’s new shirt number

Sadio Mane has explained why he chose to take the number 17 shirt at Bayern Munich following his move from Liverpool.

The forward previously wore number 19 when he first arrived at Anfield before switching to number 10 for the 2018/19 season. He’s also previously worn numbers 9, 21, 33 and 40 for FC Metz, Red Bull Salzburg and Senegal meaning his Bayern shirt number will be a completely new one for him.

And while he might have wanted one of those numbers in Germany, it appears Bayern only had a limited amount of numbers available.

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