Sadio Mané

[Doc_Piptorious]

I think thats amazing from Sadio. His story is amazing.

My son did a project on him during lockdown. Sadios dad died when he was pretty young, if memory serves it was from something like sepsis. They had to put him in a cart and try and move him to the nearest village and there was no hospital in the locality. The lack of treatment cost his Dad his life.

Then the determination for someone so young to leave home (he pretty much ran away from home to attend a trial) and defy the odds and actually lead a successful life as a sportsman.

Then to build a hospital, a hospital that will save someone elses Dads life. To build a school that will provide education. To provide a basic income for the people in his Village - it is not everyone who would do this.

I suspect that acknowledgment of his roots, the poverty he came from is quite grounding. The fact that he has the ability to make a difference for so many lifes of those who grew up around him and does is what makes him a special guy. I think it is the same for Salah.

The odds of making it as a pro footballer are astronomical even if you live in the UK, to make it when you live in Senegal or Egypt then you can multiply those odds by millions.

Good post.


Yeah to come from certain parts of places like Brazil, Senegal, Scotland, Uruguay, Egypt etc and then go on to beat all the odds and make it at any pro level is amazing. To then go on to a top tier league is nuts.

[Angryred]

€70 a month until when?...finished playing?...drops dead? WTF...2000 people live in that village so let's say an average of 5 in each family so 400 families @ €70 a month is €28k a month for him which is in comparison to his wages to us a monthly subscription to Netflix!

[brightred]

Would love to slaughter them in the Champions League and see Salah try to console Mane.

[Buzzo]

€70 a month until when?...finished playing?...drops dead? WTF...2000 people live in that village so let's say an average of 5 in each family so 400 families @ €70 a month is €28k a month for him which is in comparison to his wages to us a monthly subscription to Netflix!

€70 will go a long way in Africa, plus I suspect he needs to keep it to a level where they can continue to have plausible life styles, and still contribute to the local area. €70 will just give the families a bit of financial stability for any fallow months. Too much would be unsustainable, too little would not make a difference. €840 pa is a tidy sum.

[Irishnev]

I thought he wasn’t good enough when we bought him, I thought someone better should’ve had the number 10…….. I was miles off on both counts. What a ****ing player he was for us - that front 3 were up there with the best

Drink in some of these

[ame="https://twitter.com/lfctransferroom/status/1539334505953116162"]https://twitter.com/lfctransferroom/status/1539334505953116162[/ame]

[little dave hedgehog]

I thought he wasn’t good enough when we bought him, I thought someone better should’ve had the number 10…….. I was miles off on both counts. What a ****ing player he was for us - that front 3 were up there with the best

i had picked him up toward the end of the previous season in fantasy footy. i'd noticed him creeping up the table and he was a points machine. i was stoked.

[Irishnev]

i had picked him up toward the end of the previous season in fantasy footy. i'd noticed him creeping up the table and he was a points machine. i was stoked.

I was still scarred by Lovren, Lallana, Clyne and Lambert…..

[little dave hedgehog]

aside from lambert, all those players had their day. it may not have lasted long....

[labourRed]

He's going to leave a hole in the team for sure. What a player he was. Nunez has small shoes to fill.

[little dave hedgehog]

enormous little shoes

[SB]

If Nunez can stay on his feet I’ll be happy

[Sus]

https://twitter.com/TrollFootball/st...99695637327872

I love Troll Football - they are ****ing brilliant

[Fosterbloke]

I was still scarred by Lovren, Lallana, Clyne and Lambert…..

Lallana and Lovren gave us some good moments! Also Lallana was a key player in learning Klopp's pressing game.

[Irishnev]

Lallana and Lovren gave us some good moments! Also Lallana was a key player in learning Klopp's pressing game.

I will agree that they produced a few good moments but will agree to disagree on the second point

[red g]

SHows how far we have come as a club when a lot of people cant understand why he would leave Liverpool for Bayern.