Liverpool have reportedly set a price tag of £42.5m for Sadio Mane ahead of the opening of the summer transfer window....CONTINUE READING THE FULL ARTICLE>>>
This comes in response to interest from German champions Bayern Munich, with the club said to be keen on a potential replacement for Robert Lewandowski who has been heavily linked with the exit door.
“They want around €50 million (£42.5 million) rather than the fee of €30 million (£25.5 million) which has been touted in Germany,” the reporter wrote for The Athletic.
It’s a surprisingly low fee given the Senegalese international’s current status in world football, with his second-half of the season performances after the AFCON win catapulting him into the conversation for the Ballon d’Or along with Karim Benzema and teammate, Mo Salah.
That being said, a contract set to expire next summer will inevitably complicate things and the club face a decision as to whether to accept a fee that doesn’t reflect his current value or allow the 30-year-old to run down his contract.
The former seems more likely in light of the player’s personal desire to seek out a new challenge away from Merseyside, though a fee of £25.5m would have to be considered unacceptable on our end.
