UiLiverpool has undergone a lot of upheaval recently.
Indeed, only a few players from the 2019 Champions League champion team are left today. This team has been gradually dismantled.
The biggest loser from that squad may have been Sadio Mane, while others like Roberto Firmino, Jordan Henderson, and Fabinho have all moved on.
Many people think that the Reds’ decline last season may have been directly related to Mane’s departure from Anfield, where the Senegalese star left last year for Bayern Munich.
Efan Ekoku was discussing Mane and his time at Liverpool on the BBC Match of the Day Top 10 Africa Podcast when he made the claim that Mane was actually a better player for the Reds than Mohamed.
Mane better than Salah
Ekoku shared his verdict on the winger.
“He surprised almost everybody, he looked a good player then at Southampton, but did anyone have Mane in the top five African players in the world at that time? Nobody would say yes,’ Ekoku said.
“The jump from Southampton to Liverpool is huge, to make that jump and be the talisman and to be arguably Liverpool’s best player for five years is what Mane was. Everyone I’ve spoken to in the last six months says Liverpool kept their best goalscorer in Salah, but they sold their best player, nobody disagrees with that.”
Not anymore
This is an argument that you probably could’ve made a few years ago, but it is increasingly tough to make this point these days.
Salah remains one of the very best players in the Premier League to this day, while Mane struggled at Bayern Munich and was duly shipped off to Saudi Arabia after just one season in Germany.
In their primes, this was a closely fought battle, but now, Salah is clearly some way ahead of Mane.
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