In Liverpool they see a tempting parallelism between the departure of Mané and that of Coutinho

There are clubs that have historically been willing to sell well in order to rebuild themselves and thus begin a new exciting, even glorious, sporting stage. It is the case of Liverpoola team that is now assimilating the possibility of transferring to Sadio Manéone of its most important players in the last six seasons to open another era that, for now, has already begun in the last few hours with the signing of Darwin NunezUruguayan striker Benfica acquired in an operation that, between fixed and variable, will easily go to 100 million euros. Liverpool Echoa reference medium for information on the ‘reds’, drew a parallel between Mané’s probable departure and the positive consequences that the transfer to Barcelona of Philippe Coutinho in January 2018.

At Anfield they have already set a price for the Bayerntop contender for the signing of Senegalese striker Mané, can fill the void that the Golden Boot may leave in Munich with a charismatic figure Robert Lewandowski, goal of Barca. Liverpool Echo suggested that in Mané’s will to leave Anfield would be the need to gain focus by leaving the shadow of the other crack of the ‘red’ attack, Mohamed Salah, and a salary increase. For this reason, instead of closing the door on him, the Merseyside club “have been surprisingly accommodating with Mané’s request”, with one more year of contract as a ‘network’, remembering that the strategy of buying players with a great resale value potential has traditionally been fruitful, so if Bayern agree to pay

The 42.75 million pounds (about 50 million euros) that Liverpool is asking for will be considered “a job well done”. In that sense, the speed with which Liverpool has moved to incorporate Mané’s replacement, Darwin Núñez, was underlined.

A compelling argument to encourage this changing of the guard in the Anfield attack is in the historical memory of the club’s mercantile conduct. Liverpool Echo recalled that, initial disgust aside, “almost every time, that vital gear has often brought better consequences, the examples are endless and go back years.”

Coutinho was the last seemingly traumatic departure from Anfield. bound for Barcelona, ​​but as a result of his departure a team was put together which, hand in hand with Jürgen Klopp, has played three Champions League finals, winning one of them. Already in the most glorious era of the club, in that decade of the 70s in which three European Cups fell, Kevin Keegan was considered irreplaceable when he traded Anfield for Hamburg and arrived Kenny Dalglishultimately a legend. Between the first European Cup in 1977 and the third, in 1981, only four players repeated in the lineup. At that time, the legendary goalkeeper Ray Clemenceafter 14 seasons at Anfield, he went to Tottenham in 1981 and his position was filled by another myth, Bruce Grobelaarwhich lasted until 1994. Much more recently, the march of Fernando Torres al Chelsea brought in parallel the incorporation of the Uruguayan Luis Suarez from the Ajaxabout half of what they received on Merseyside from the London club.

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