Mane joins Bayern: How Lewandowski, Coutinho and others have fared after leaving Klopp

After
six
years
at
Anfield,
Sadio
Mane
has
departed
for
a
new
adventure
with
Bayern
Munich,
completing
a
move
for
€41million
(£35.2million).

Stats
Perform
understands
Liverpool
will
receive
a
guaranteed
€32million
(£27.5m),
plus
€6m
(£5.2m)
based
on
appearances
and
a
further
€3m
(£2.5m)
depending
on
future
success
that
Mane
and
Bayern
achieve.

The
Reds
have
already
moved
on
by
bringing
in
Uruguay
striker
Darwin
Nunez
from
Benfica,
but
it
feels
significant
that
Mane,
Roberto
Firmino
and
Mohamed
Salah
will
never
play
together
again
for
Jurgen
Klopp’s
side.

The
trio
fired
Liverpool
to
multiple
trophies,
including
a
Champions
League
and
Premier
League,
though
the
additions
of
Diogo
Jota
and
Luis
Diaz
in
the
last
couple
of
years
had
already
seen
a
slight
evolution.

However,
Klopp
has
now
lost
one
of
his
main
men,
which
is
an
experience
the
German
boss
has
had
to
get
used
to
in
his
career,
especially
the
idea
of
his
players
moving
to
Munich.

While
it
may
not
feel
like
quite
the
blow
of
past
desertions
given
the
forward
planning,
Stats
Perform
has
taken
a
look
at
how
the
decision
to
leave
Klopp
went
in
the
past.

Nuri
Sahin

Sahin
was
always
likely
to
be
a
major
component
for
Borussia
Dortmund
when
he
became
the
Bundesliga’s
youngest
player
aged
16
years,
11
months
against
Wolfsburg
in
August
2006,
a
record
that
was
only
broken
in
November
2020
by
Youssoufa
Moukoko.

He
shone
under
Klopp,
particularly
in
2010-11
when
Dortmund
shocked
German
football
to
win
the
Bundesliga
title,
with
Sahin
claiming
the
league’s
Player
of
the
Year
award
and
earning
a
move
to
Real
Madrid.

After
14
goal
involvements
from
midfield
(six
goals,
eight
assists)
in
his
last
season
in
the
Bundesliga,
Sahin
struggled
to
do
similar
in
Spain,
making
just
10
appearances
in
all
competitions
for
Madrid,
with
one
solitary
goal
in
the
Copa
del
Rey
against
Ponferradina.

An
unsuccessful
loan
move
to
Liverpool
the
following
season
was
cut
short
halfway
through,
and
just
20
months
after
leaving
Signal
Iduna
Park,
Sahin
was
back
in
the
yellow
and
black
on
loan,
before
making
the
switch
permanent
in
2014,
staying
until
a
move
to
Werder
Bremen
in
2018.

Shinji
Kagawa

The
Japan
international
spent
two
very
productive
seasons
at
Dortmund
under
Klopp
between
2010
and
2012,
winning
back-to-back
Bundesliga
titles
and
scoring
21
goals
in
49
league
games.

Kagawa
decided
to
try
his
hand
at
the
Premier
League,
moving
to
Manchester
United
in
June
2012,
but
much
like
Sahin,
found
the
grass
far
from
greener.

Due
to
injury,
he
only
played
a
supporting
role
as
United
won
the
title
in
the
2012-13
season,
scoring
six
goals
in
26
appearances
in
all
competitions,
before
making
a
further
29
in
the
first
campaign
at
Old
Trafford
following
the
retirement
of
Alex
Ferguson,
with
no
additional
goals
to
his
name.

Like
Sahin,
Kagawa
returned
to
Dortmund
in
2014,
spending
a
further
five
years
at
the
club.

Mario
Gotze

The
fresh-faced
Gotze
came
through
the
youth
ranks
at
Dortmund
and,
like
Kagawa,
played
a
vital
role
in
Klopp’s
great
Dortmund
side
that
won
two
Bundesliga
titles,
and
also
had
a
big
hand
in
getting
them
to
the
2013
Champions
League
final.

One
of
the
side
narratives
to
that
final
against
Bayern
was
that
prior
to
it,
Gotze
had
agreed
a
€37m
move
to
the
Bavarian
club.

Klopp
was
hurt
by
Gotze’s
decision,
but
although
the
attacking
midfielder
went
on
to
score
the
winner
for
Germany
in
the
2014
World
Cup
final
and
have
a
decent
record
at
Bayern,
scoring
36
goals
in
114
games,
he
never
really
established
himself
as
a
key
cog
in
their
team,
and
in
a
familiar
move
for
those
who
had
left
Dortmund,
returned
three
years
later.

Gotze
spent
four
years
back
in
the
yellow
and
black,
but
was
never
able
to
recapture
the
magic
that
made
him
one
of
Europe’s
hottest
prospects
under
Klopp.

Robert
Lewandowski

Arguably
the
only
real
success
story
of
those
who
moved
on
from
Klopp,
though
there
is
no
denying
that
the
building
blocks
were
put
in
place
by
the
German
for
Lewandowski
to
become
the
striker
he
is
today.

Arriving
at
Dortmund
as
an
unknown
from
Lech
Poznan,
he
scored
just
eight
times
in
33
games
in
his
first
Bundesliga
season,
before
going
on
to
rack
up
66
across
his
next
three
league
campaigns.

His
goals
also
played
a
part
in
Dortmund
winning
two
titles
and
reaching
the
Champions
League
final,
but
a
year
after
Gotze
had
moved
to
Bayern,
Lewandowski
did
the
same
following
the
expiry
of
his
contract.

There
were
thoughts
that
the
Poland
international
might
struggle
to
replicate
his
form
to
quite
the
expected
levels
in
Munich,
scoring
just
17
goals
in
his
first
Bundesliga
season.

However,
since
then
he
has
never
scored
fewer
than
22,
and
broke
Gerd
Muller’s
record
for
most
goals
in
a
Bundesliga
season
when
he
netted
41
times
in
just
29
games
in
2020-21.

Since
leaving
Dortmund
in
2014,
Lewandowski
has
won
eight
Bundesliga
titles,
three
DFB-Pokal’s
and
a
Champions
League,
while
also
being
awarded
the
FIFA
Best
Men’s
Player
of
the
Year
in
the
last
two
years.

Philippe
Coutinho

Klopp
probably
thought
the
days
of
losing
his
star
players
were
behind
him
when
he
arrived
at
Liverpool,
but
on
the
eve
of
his
third
season
at
Anfield,
he
was
rocked
when
Coutinho
handed
in
a
transfer
request.

The
influential
Brazilian
was
part
of
Klopp’s
first
great
front
three
at
Liverpool
along
with
Mane
and
Firmino,
but
the
arrival
of
Salah
softened
the
blow
of
his
move
to
Barcelona
in
January
2018,
as
did
the
reported
£142m
(€160m)
fee.

Despite
a
promising
start
to
life
at
the
Camp
Nou,
the
pressure
of
the
price
tag
and
essentially
being
the
replacement
for
the
legendary
Andres
Iniesta
proved
too
much,
with
Coutinho
loaned
to,
of
course,
Bayern
after
just
18
months
in
Spain.

He
had
a
successful
season
in
Germany,
winning
a
treble
and
having
20
goal
involvements
(11
goals
and
nine
assists)
in
38
appearances
in
all
competitions,
but
returned
to
Barca
and
again
failed
to
impress,
albeit
a
serious
knee
injury
curtailed
most
of
his
2020-21
campaign.

After
16
goals
and
seven
assists
in
84
games
in
all
for
Barca,
Coutinho
returned
to
England
in
January
2022
to
play
for
ex-Liverpool
team-mate
Steven
Gerrard
at
Aston
Villa,
recording
five
goals
and
three
assists,
enough
to
secure
a
permanent
move
for
a
slightly
more
modest
fee
of
around
£17m
(€20m).

Aston
Villa
is
delighted
to
announce
the
permanent
signing
of
Philippe
Coutinho
from
Barcelona
for
an
undisclosed
fee!

—
Aston
Villa
(@AVFCOfficial)

May
12,
2022

Georginio
Wijnaldum

The
Netherlands
midfielder
may
be
a
harsh
inclusion
as
it
remains
unclear
how
much
of
his
exit
from
Liverpool
was
his
decision
and
how
much
was
the
club’s,
but
Wijnaldum
parted
ways
with
Klopp
and
the
Reds
at
the
end
of
the
2020-21
season
to
join
Paris
Saint-Germain.

The
man
who
earned
cult
status
at
Liverpool
with
his
two
goals
against
Barcelona
in
their
dramatic
comeback
in
the
Champions
League
semi-final
second
leg
three
years
ago
would
now
get
the
chance
to
play
alongside
Neymar,
Kylian
Mbappe
and
Lionel
Messi.

However,
despite
being
a
regular
under
Klopp,
having
never
started
fewer
than
27
league
games
in
his
five
years
on
Merseyside,
the
31-year-old
started
just
18
Ligue
1
games
for
PSG,
scoring
once.

Wijnaldum
was
voted
the
worst
signing
in
Ligue
1
by
a
poll
held
by
Get
French
Football
News,
but
still
has
two
years
left
on
his
contract
at
the
Parc
des
Princes,
so
could
yet
turn
things
around,
and
had
a
title
winners’ medal
to
show
for
his
efforts
after
his
debut
campaign.

Mane
will
most
likely
win
more
titles
in
Germany
to
add
to
his
already
meaty
collection
from
his
time
at
Liverpool,
but
whether
he
can
recreate
the
level
of
performances
and
subsequent
adulation
he
received
from
the
red
half
of
Merseyside
remains
to
be
seen.