{"id":613178,"date":"2022-05-29T10:21:06","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T14:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=613178"},"modified":"2022-05-29T10:21:06","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T14:21:06","slug":"liverpool-forward-big-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/05\/29\/liverpool-forward-big-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool Forward Makes Big Decision on Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool forward Sadio Mane has decided to leave the club, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1530911350809034753\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fabrizio Romano<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Mane has scored 120 goals and assisted 48 in 269 appearances for the club.<\/p>\n<h2>Big Update on Future of Liverpool Forward Sadio Mane<\/h2>\n<h3>Mane Seeking a Fresh Challenge<\/h3>\n<p>Mane joined Liverpool from Southampton in 2016 and has been one of the best transfers in recent history. He has been hugely influential in all of Liverpool&#8217;s successes under <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/04\/28\/jurgen-klopp-contract-decision-liverpool\/\" target=\"_self\">Jurgen Klopp<\/a>, lifting the Premier League, the FA Cup, the Carabao Cup, a Champions League, Super Cup and Club World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The era has been a remarkable one for the Reds with Mane and teammate Mohamed Salah central to it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/05\/25\/mohamed-salah-liverpool-future-stay-anfield\/\" target=\"_self\">Salah has committed his immediate future<\/a> to the club but Mane had promised to reveal his decision after the Champions League final &#8211; which they lost 1-0 to Real Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>He has not spoke out yet but Romano reports that he has made his decision.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/05\/25\/ryan-gravenberch-to-bayern-munich\/\" target=\"_self\">Bayern Munich<\/a> are strong contenders to sign the Senegal international, who added the Africa Cup of Nations to his list of successes earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Romano adds that Bayern have been respectful of Mane&#8217;s wish to wait until after the Champions League final but are now ready to push, anticipating interest from others.<\/p>\n<p>Mane recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/football\/2022\/05\/27\/jamie-carragher-meets-sadio-mane-had-contract-manchester-united\/?utm_content=football&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_campaign=Echobox&amp;utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1653756543\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">revealed he had a contract offer<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/05\/29\/manchester-united-austria-boss-ralf-rangnick\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester United<\/a> before joining Liverpool.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Jurgen Klopp: \u201cSadio Man\u00e9 to Bayern rumours? I couldn\u2019t care less, at the moment\u2026 he\u2019s focused on the final. It\u2019s not the first time that I have had a Bayern rumour come up just before a big match\u201d, he added. \ud83d\udd34 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#LFC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tbunWBtLb7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/tbunWBtLb7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1530205383305969666?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 27, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This season, he has scored 23 goals in 51 games, assisting a further five. He remains a key figure in the Liverpool team, who did though add Luis Diaz in January. Fabio Carvalho is also joining from Fulham, adding to Klopp&#8217;s options up top.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool forward Sadio Mane has decided to leave the club, Fabrizio Romano reports. Mane has scored 120 goals and assisted 48 in 269 appearances for the club. Big Update on Future of Liverpool Forward Sadio Mane Mane Seeking a Fresh Challenge Mane joined Liverpool from Southampton in 2016 and has been one of the best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3469,"featured_media":613179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,16,3,7188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-liverpool","category-premier-league","category-rumours"],"modified_by":"Jordan Hackett, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}