The PR agent of Sadio Mane revealed what scuppered the forward’s move to PSG, and dropped a revelation about Lionel Messi attempting to engineer a transfer between Barcelona and Liverpool.
The Senegalese forward, 30, concluded his Liverpool career at the six-year mark last week.
Mane completed a move to Bayern Munich worth an initial £27.4m that could rise to £35m.
“Leonardo (PSG’s recently-fired sporting director) had several contacts with [Mane’s] German agent.
“It was Lionel Messi who imposed Sadio Mané in the deal when it was a question of him extending to Barça.
“Everyone knows that Leonardo was on an ejection seat, we had to wait.”
Messi tried to bring Mane to Barcelona
On top of the aborted PSG move, Cisse also revealed Lionel Messi had attempted to engineer a Sadio Mane move to Barcelona around the time the Argentine was poised to leave in 2021.
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