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| Sadio Mane of Liverpool in action during the UEFA Champions League final match between Liverpool FC and Real Madrid at Stade de France on May 28, 2022 in Paris, France. |
Senegal manager
Aliou Cisse has urged Sadio Mane to leave Liverpool in favour of joining Bayern
Munich this summer.
Mane has entered
the final year of his contract at Anfield and has made it clear to those in
charge that he does not want to sign an extension and is keen to leave this
summer, with Bayern pushing hard to get a deal done.
Liverpool
have already rejected an opening bid from the German champions
but remain in talks over the forward’s sale – something which could be accelerated
after Benfica confirmed they have agreed to sell Darwin Nunez to the Reds for a cool €100m.
When asked for his
opinion on Mane’s future, Cisse was adamant that the 30-year-old would ‘feel
best’ in Munich and urged the forward to sort out his next move as soon as
possible.
“It’s not just
Sadio, I’m going to talk about it for all those players who are in a situation
where they have to find a club, it’s complicated. Why? Because it is all this
problem that awaits us for the World Cup which is in November,” Cisse told
a press conference.“And I tell my
boys to try to settle the contract problems so that when their respective
championships resume, they will have already found a base. I heard about Sadio
at Bayern.“Bayern is
intensity, pressure football with a German coach. Sadio played in Salzburg in Austria
which is a border country, and that means he is not going into unknown
territory. For me, the club where he will feel the best is Bayern.”
Bayern director
Hasan Salihamidzic has remained coy on his side’s interest in Mane, instead
admitting that the Liverpool forward is one of several targets under
consideration.
“We’re working
on several options in attack,” he said. “The transfer market is not
easy, it always depends on the financial possibilities of the club.“I don’t want
to talk about players of other clubs.”
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