Sadio Mane claims the best partner of his Liverpool career was neither Mohamed Salah nor Roberto Firmino

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Looking back on his time with the Reds in conversation with Rio Ferdinand this week, Mane has paid a big compliment to Liverpool’s veteran full-back.Photo by Catherine Ivill/Getty ImagesSadio Mane picks Andy Robertson as his best partnerWhen discussing Mane’s Liverpool career, the conversation will never be far from the topic of his legendary partnership with Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino.Between them the three players formed one of the best trios European football has ever seen, and some supporters may have expected Mane to pick one of the two as his best link-up.READ MORE: Sadio Mane told Liverpool youngster he was going to become a ‘big player’ but he’s now in League Two Should Liverpool have tried harder to keep Sadio Mane? So, I thought let’s try something because I have won almost everything here.”Sadio Mane on why he left Liverpool But while the 33-year-old gives a glowing assessment of Firmino and speaks well of Salah too, he gives that accolade to Robertson.“I think this was amazing, people usually talk about the front three, me, Bobby and Mo but if you see Robertson, the overlapping and this desire to win every single ball, it’s just amazing,” Mane said.“Robbo for me was the partnership in all my career because we knew each other.

I helped him, he helped me. When he played against a winger who was really tough for him, I said ‘you help me, I’ll help you.

I would go, take the inside and he’d take the outside so it was easier.”Liverpool badly missing left-hand side partnershipMane and Robertson’s partnership did not solidify overnight, but it can be hard not to think of the two in tandem down the Liverpool left and not get a little misty-eyed.The Reds are currently a long way from having something similar to lean on on that side of the pitch. It is arguably more of a problem that Gakpo does not feel like the long-term answer.Liverpool have been heavily linked with a move for Antoine Semenyo, adding to the feeling that Slot does not have the man he wants at left wing.If Semenyo does come in, perhaps he can strike up a partnership with his former Bournemouth teammate which compares to that which Mane and Robertson formed.