Sadio Mane has come a long way since joining Liverpool three years ago – but things could have been very different if he had signed for Manchester United.
And while that may sound like a Liverpool fan’s horror story, it wasn’t far from coming true.
Ahead of Saturday’s Champions League final with Tottenham, the 27-year-old admitted that he came close to signing for United after his final season with Southampton.
“I was really, really close because I even met up with them,” he told the Mirror.
“So I was coming, I was there and I spoke with the boss who was there before (Louis van Gaal).
“They made an offer, but in the same week, [Jurgen] Klopp called me.
“He said: ‘I think it’s the right club. The right coach for you, and I think it’s better that you go to Liverpool’.
“For me I think it was the right time as well. I said, ‘I am going to Liverpool.’”
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