SADIO MANE has completed his stunning move to Al-Nassr in Saudi Arabia – but it will cost Liverpool millions in the process.
The forward, 31, has left Bayern Munich after just a year in Germany.
But according to the Daily Mail, the German champions only paid Liverpool an upfront fee of £27.5m.
The remaining £7.5m was to be paid if Mane met the requirements of certain performance based add-ons.
But those will not be met as the Senegalese international joins Cristiano Ronaldo in Saudi, where he is set to pocket around £650,000 a week.
But he will still be some way off the top earners in the Gulf, including Ronaldo, Karim Benzema and old Liverpool pal Jordan Henderson.
Mane only signed for Bayern last summer in a £35m deal after six years at Anfield where he scored 120 goals in 269 games.
But he was not as prolific in Germany and only managed seven Bundesliga goals last season.
Manager Thomas Tuchel is focused on adding more firepower to his side, with Tottenham’s Harry Kane a top target.
It left Mane surplus to requirements and deemed a good way of funding a move for Kane.
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His transfer comes on the same day Bayern launched a club record £82m bid for England’s captain.
The offer comes after the German giants held talks with Spurs chairman Daniel Levy this week.
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According to BILD, Bayern submitted a bid worth a total of £82m including add-ons.
The offer is said to be made up of an initial £73million, with a further £9million in potential additional payments.
But it remains below Spurs’ £100million valuation, despite being a record fee for Bayern.
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
