Senegalese international Sadio Mane, according to pundit Efan Ekaku, was superior to Mohamed Salah while he played for Liverpool. Since winning the Champions League in 2019, Reds has undergone a number of changes. From that European champion team, only a select few players are still playing.
Some club members, including Jordan Henderson, Fabinho, and Roberto Firmino, left this summer to play in the newly formed Saudi Pro League. But Sadio Mane’s departure might have been the biggest. The 31-year-old joined Bayern Munich after leaving Liverpool in the summer of last year. Liverpool’s performance suffered after his departure, and last season they were unable to make the Champions League. Mane’s time at Bayern was short-lived, though, as he joined Saudi Club Al-Ittihad this summer.
As he struggled to find his true form at the Allianz Arena, the Senegalese international has a falling out with the club hierarchy. Sadio Mane was one of the best players in the Premier League, according to Efan Ekaku, who was speaking on the BBC Match of the Day Top 10 Africa Podcast. Few people would disagree with him if he said that the Senegalese were superior to Liverpool’s star player. Ekaku complimented the winger and said:. “Almost everyone was surprised by him, and he appeared to be a good player at Southampton at the time, but no one would have put Mane among the top five African players in the world at that time, would they?
“The transition from Southampton to Liverpool is a huge one, and Mane was able to make that transition and become the talisman and arguably Liverpool’s best player for five years. Nobody I’ve talked to in the last six months disputes the statement that Liverpool kept their best player in Salah but sold their best goal scorer.
