{"id":613468,"date":"2022-06-08T12:23:28","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T16:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=613468&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=613468"},"modified":"2022-06-08T12:23:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T16:23:28","slug":"liverpool-reject-bayern-munich-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/08\/liverpool-reject-bayern-munich-target\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool Reject Improved Offer for Bayern Munich Target Sadio Man\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/08\/benfica-make-demand-liverpool-target\/\" target=\"_self\">Liverpool<\/a> have rejected an improved offer for <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/05\/bayern-munich-striker-barcelona\/\" target=\"_self\">Bayern Munich<\/a> target Sadio Man\u00e9, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthleticUK\/status\/1534494950322147329\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report The Athletic.<\/a> The improved offer amounted to \u00a323.5 million, with potential add-ons totalling a combined \u00a330 million. The bid was said to be swiftly denied as Liverpool hold out for a deal worth \u00a340 million plus for their deadly frontman. <br \/><br \/>Hasan Salihamidzic, Head of Sport at Bayern Munich, wants to fly to England to negotiate with Julian Ward, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cfbayern\/status\/1534427085128671232\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">as per Christian Falk<\/a>. Bayern are said to be willing to increase the offer for Sadio Man\u00e9.<\/p>\r\n<p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What a feeling \ud83d\ude01 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BcNgUTx3LQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/BcNgUTx3LQ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Sadio Man\u00e9 (@SMane_Officiel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SMane_Officiel\/status\/1525606729114955777?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 14, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\r\n<h2>Liverpool Reject Offer for Bayern Munich Target\u00a0<\/h2>\r\n<h3>Liverpool Eyeing Man\u00e9 Payout<\/h3>\r\n<p>The 30-year-old has one year left on his contract at Anfield and Fabrizio Romano has reported the Senegalese attacker is ready to agree personal terms with the Bavarians. Man\u00e9 is expected to leave Liverpool for Bayern, with Mohamed Salah, whose future was also unsure, expected to stay\u00a0The Reds want to ensure they get the perfect payout for one of their most lethal attackers.<\/p>\r\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/05\/25\/mohamed-salah-liverpool-future-stay-anfield\/\" target=\"_self\">Read more: Mohamed Salah Liverpool Future Confirmed as Egyptian Will Stay at Anfield<\/a><\/em><br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/06\/liverpool-reject-offer-prolific-forward\/\" target=\"_self\">Bayern\u2019s initial bid of a combined \u00a325 million was rejected on Monday by Liverpool<\/a>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/news\/liverpool-reject-sadio-mane-bid\/pAxdbvqXNrya\/?source=twitteruk\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new offer<\/a> would only reach \u00a330 million if Bayern won the Champions League and Man\u00e9 won the Ballon d\u2019Or within the next three seasons, which the Liverpool hierarchy marked as laughable. The difference between the two offers only guaranteed the Reds an extra \u00a32.5 million. Not much of an increase in the football industry between two of Europe\u2019s giants.<\/p>\r\n<h3>Bayern\u2019s Necessity Playing Into Liverpool\u2019s Hands<\/h3>\r\n<p>Bayern will need a striker this summer. Following <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/05\/13\/lewandowski-barcelona-transfer-likely\/\" target=\"_self\">Robert Lewandowski\u2019s shock decision to move on from the Allianz Arena<\/a> this summer in pursuit of a move to Barcelona, Bayern must replace him. After being priced out of Erling Haaland, a more traditional number nine, already, it is likely Bayern officials see Sadio Man\u00e9 as a replacement for their Polish superstar. Bayern had also reportedly been interested in Manchester United&#8217;s Marcus Rashford<\/p>\r\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/05\/24\/bayern-munich-marcus-rashford-forward-stay\/\" target=\"_self\">Read more: Bayern Munich Interested in Marcus Rashford<\/a><\/em><\/p>\r\n<p>While not a traditional number nine, since the arrival of Luis Diaz in January, Sadio Mane has excelled as the spearhead of attacks. The Senegalese international, who has only failed to score 20 goals once in the last five seasons, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transfermarkt.co.uk\/sadio-mane\/leistungsdaten\/spieler\/200512\/plus\/0?saison=2021\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">managed 23 this season<\/a> and could be handed the number nine shirt at Bayern if a deal can be reached.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool have rejected an improved offer for Bayern Munich target Sadio Man\u00e9, report The Athletic. The improved offer amounted to \u00a323.5 million, with potential add-ons totalling a combined \u00a330 million. The bid was said to be swiftly denied as Liverpool hold out for a deal worth \u00a340 million plus for their deadly frontman. Hasan Salihamidzic, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4154,"featured_media":613472,"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":[16,1364,4,2,3,28],"tags":[162],"class_list":["post-613468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-liverpool","category-bayern-munich","category-bundesliga","category-featured","category-premier-league","category-transfers","tag-sadio-mane"],"modified_by":"Dale Ventham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613468","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\/4154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}