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<\/div>\nSadio Mane has completed a \u00a335m move from Liverpool to Bayern Munich on a three-year contract.<\/p>\n
The Reds will receive 32m euros (\u00a327.4m) with an additional 6m euros based on appearances, plus 3m euros for individual and team achievements.<\/p>\n
Liverpool turned down two bids\u00a0from Bayern before agreeing a fee for the Senegal forward, who was under contract until next summer.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the right time for this challenge,\u201d said the 30-year-old.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI felt the great interest of this big club from the start so there was no doubt in my mind.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mane joined Liverpool for\u00a0\u00a334m from Southampton in June 2016,\u00a0and scored 120 goals in 269 games, finishing last season with 23 goals in all competitions.<\/p>\n
\u201cSadio Mane is a world star who underscores the appeal of FC Bayern and increases the attractiveness of the entire Bundesliga,\u201d said Bayern president Herbert Hainer. \u201cIt is for such unique footballers that the fans come to the stadiums.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mane helped Liverpool win the Champions League and the Premier League, and in February scored the winning penalty as\u00a0Senegal won the Africa Cup of Nations\u00a0for the first time.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith his outstanding performances and his great successes at the highest international level over many years, there are very few players like him in the world,\u201d added Bayern\u2019s chief executive Oliver Kahn.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re sure that Sadio Mane will delight our fans in the coming years with his spectacular style of play. He\u2019s ambitious and eager to win more titles. This package is very strong. With players like him at FC Bayern, all the biggest goals are possible.\u201d<\/p>\n Last week Liverpool confirmed the signing of\u00a0Uruguay forward Darwin Nunez\u00a0from Benfica for an initial \u00a364m.<\/p>\n In a\u00a0farewell interview for the Liverpool website,\u00a0Mane said: \u201cIt is really strange to no longer be a Liverpool player but I had an unbelievable time. I am going to be Liverpool\u2019s number one fan forever.\u201d<\/p>\n With Jurgen Klopp having been appointed Liverpool manager in October 2015, Mane was the German\u2019s first major signing at Anfield the following summer.<\/p>\n Roberto Firmino was already at the club and Mohammed Salah arrived in 2017 to complete what would become one of the greatest forward lines in Premier League history.<\/p>\n In five seasons in all competitions, they scored 338 goals between them, helping Liverpool become champions of Europe for the sixth time in 2019 and then win the English league title for the first time in 30 years.<\/p>\n With the trio moving into or near to their 30s, Liverpool prepared for the evolution of their attacking ranks by signing Diogo Jota and then Luis Diaz, but Mane\u2019s departure could be seen as the end of an era at Anfield.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a big moment, there is no point in anyone trying to pretend otherwise,\u201d\u00a0Klopp told the Liverpool website.<\/p>\n \u201cOne of Liverpool\u2019s greatest ever players is leaving and we must acknowledge how significant this is. But we must not dwell on what we now lose, instead celebrate what we were privileged to have.\u201d<\/p>\n Will the summer signings of Nunez and teenager\u00a0Fabio Carvalho\u00a0from Fulham, allied with the arrivals of Jota and Diaz, spark a second phase of success for Klopp on Merseyside?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
Does Mane departure mark \u2018end of era\u2019 at Anfield?<\/h3>\n