Sadio Mane has bid farewell to Liverpool after completing his move to Bayern Munich.
As reported by the ECHO last week, the overall package to take Mane to Germany is worth just over £35m after the two clubs agreed a €41m deal for the Senegalese. The Reds will receive a fixed fee of €32m (£27.4m) with a further €9m (£7.7m) in add-ons.
From those add-ons, Liverpool will pocket €6m (£5.1m) based on appearances with the remaining €3m (£2.6m) based on individual and team achievements. The fee eclipses what the Reds paid Southampton for the forward back in 2016, with that deal proving to be worth £31m with a further £2.5m in add-ins.
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Liverpool could end up receiving almost double what they paid Bayern for Thiago Alcantara back in the summer of 2020. The midfielder had just one-year left on his deal at the Allianz Arena at the time.
The ECHO also understands that the Saints have not received any additional money from Mane’s move to the German champions. Liverpool initially rejected two offers from the Bavarians for the 30-year-old, who is out of contract at Anfield next summer, with the opening bid worth €25m plus €5m add-ons, which were all based on individual and team achievements.
Bayern’s second offer was a £30m package, worth only an initial £23.5m, with Liverpool only standing to bank the full total if Bayern won the Champions League in all three of the seasons Mane has signed up for, as well as the forward winning the Ballon d'Or for three consecutive years.
Mane leaves the Reds after six seasons at Anfield, having scored 120 goals in 269 appearances and won the Premier League, Champions League, FIFA Club World Cup, European Super Cup, FA Cup and League Cup along the way.
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