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Some Of The Replies On Social Media When Sadio Mane Signed For Liverpool Are Priceless

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Published 14:56 22 Jun 2022 GMT+1

Some Of The Replies On Social Media When Sadio Mane Signed For Liverpool Are Priceless

The Senegal international joined Jurgen Klopp's side from Southampton in 2016.

Jack Kenmare

Jack Kenmare

It will go down as one of the club's greatest ever signings. Back in June 2016, it was confirmed that Liverpool had agreed a £30 million deal with Southampton for Senegal international Sadio Mane.

After months of speculation surrounding his future at St Mary's, the highly-rated forward snubbed a move to Manchester United in favour of joining Jurgen Klopp at Anfield. The rest, as they say, is history.

The 30-year-old scored 120 goals in 269 appearances for Liverpool and, in a trophy-laden spell in Merseyside, he lifted the Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup, amongst other silverware.

That being said, some were far from impressed with Mane's arrival in the summer of 2016. In fact, some took to social media to mock the signing.

As you can see in the above post, Sky Sports confirmed that a £30 million fee had been agreed between the Premier League clubs for Mane, who scored 17 goals in all competitions for club and country during the 2015/16 campaign.

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One Twitter user wrote: "If he's worth £30m then Jonathan Walters is worth £90m," before commenting three years later: "Knew this was going to come back and bite me!"

A second commented on the above post saying: "Yayyyyy another shit Southampton player. Should cement a top 10 finish no problem."

A third wrote: "Lmao mkhitaryan is going to United for the same price."

Days later, Manchester United completed the signing of Henrikh Mkhitaryan from Borussia Dortmund in a reported £26.3 million deal and at the time, many thought that was a better piece of business.

Mane, meanwhile, has penned a three-year deal with Bundesliga side Bayern Munich after six years at Anfield.

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In an emotional farewell interview with Liverpool's official channel, the 30-year-old forward explained why he felt it was the right time to move on and find a new challenge.

"There was a lot, a lot, of speculation but I’m not a confused boy in my head," he said.

"Obviously I know what I want and I know what is professional so for me, I was not even thinking about it because I was still a Liverpool player and we had really, really important games. For me that time was so, so important for myself and the team and the boys, and the supporters as well, and that is why I was really, really focused on that.

"I did not want [to make] any comments about it because winning the Champions League and the Premier League, that would have been fantastic for myself, for the club and for everybody. So that is why I was not even talking about or commentating about the speculation because it is part of football, it will always stay [this way]. It is normal."


Featured Image Credit: Liverpool FC/Twitter

Topics: Sadio Mane, Liverpool, Premier League, Bayern Munich

Jack Kenmare
Jack Kenmare

Jack is a Senior Journalist who enjoys a long read. He has an encyclopedic knowledge of Football Manager wonderkids from 2005 to the present day, and has interviewed a handful of FM's finest, including Freddy Adu, Supat Rungratsamee and Mika Aaritalo.

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