Sadio Mane leaves Liverpool for Bayern Munich

Mane
hinted
at
his
desire
to
leave
Liverpool
after
their
Champions
League
final
loss
to
Real
Madrid
last
month,
at
the
end
of
a
season
in
which
he
scored
23
goals.

With
Liverpool
signing
striker
Darwin
Nunez
in
a
reported
£64million
(€75m)
deal
from
Benfica
last
week
and
Mane
having
just
12
months
left
on
his
contract,
the
30-year-old
has
been
allowed
to
depart
after
six
successful
years
at
Anfield.

Sadio
Mane
heading
to
Bayern
Munich
as
clubs
strike
€41million
deal

He
has
played
a
key
role
in
Liverpool
winning
their
first
Premier
League
title
in
2020,
reaching
three
Champions
League
finals
–
and
winning
one
of
them
–
and
triumphs
in
the
EFL
Cup
and
FA
Cup
in
the
2021-22
season.

Mane
has
signed
a
three-year
contract
with
the
Bundesliga
champions.
Stats
Perform
understands
Bayern
will
pay
Liverpool
a
guaranteed
sum
of
€32million
(£27.5m)
plus
€6m
(£5.2m)
based
on
appearances,
while
a
further
€3m
(£2.5m)
is
dependent
on
the
Bavarian
club
and
Mane
meeting
performance-related
objectives.

Mane
scored
90
goals
in
196
Premier
League
games
for
Liverpool
after
joining
Jurgen
Klopp’s
side
from
Southampton
in
2016.

Only
Leicester
City
striker
Jamie
Vardy
(104),
Mane’s
Liverpool
team-mate
Mohamed
Salah
(118)
and
Tottenham’s
Harry
Kane
(134)
have
managed
more
goals
in
the
competition
across
that
period.

As
well
as
lifting
both
domestic
cups
during
a
successful
final
season
with
Liverpool,
Mane
played
a
key
role
as
Senegal
won
the
Africa
Cup
of
Nations
title
in
February
and
qualified
for
the
World
Cup
a
month
later.

Mane
also
struck
up
a
brilliant
partnership
with
fellow
forward
Salah
at
Liverpool,
and
his
sale
marks
something
akin
to
the
end
of
an
era
for
the
Reds.

It
remains
to
be
seen
what
Mane’s
arrival
means
for
the
future
of
Bayern
striker
Robert
Lewandowski,
who
has
been
strongly
linked
with
a
move
to
Barcelona.

Bayern
president
Herbert
Hainer
said
earlier
this
month
he
was
“confident”
Lewandowski
will
stay
at
the
Allianz
Arena,
despite
the
Poland
international
declaring
his
time
at
the
club
is
“over”
and
pushing
for
a
move
ahead
of
his
contract
expiring
in
2023.