It’s very rare that we have stories about players wanting to invest in other clubs, but that’s what Liverpool’s Sadio Mané wants to do.
The team in question is a National 2 side in France called Bourges Foot, currently owned by Cheikh Sylla, the second Senegalese president of a national French club after Pape Diouf at Marseille between 2005-2009.
Either way, Sylla is said to have already met Pape Dieng, ‘one of Sadio Mané’s closest collaborators’, and the town’s mayor, Yann Galut, is confident of getting some new investments via a project put forward by the Liverpool star.
He told Le Berry Républicain: “The relationship and exchanges that we have with Sadio Mané are serious. The contacts with the town hall are really there. Are they going to happen? Looking at the international context, with the crisis, I don’t know. What I can say is that had there not been any Covid, we would have already welcome Sadio Mané in Bourge to talk”.
Instead, he sees his investment as a way of creating a new development centre for young players in the medium term, as well as broadening the club into women’s football.
The news slipped everyone by, it seems, as the original article dates from the end of January, but this is something Galut claims has been in the works ‘since October’.
He added: “Three times now, we’ve had to delay his arrival. Sadio Mané has this desire to present his project in Bourges himself, and that’s entirely to his credit. These days, we talk on the phone. We work. Mané thinks about his potential investment.
“I’m remaking very cautious because it would be such good news for Bourges that I don’t want to give false hope. The project is down to him and his arrival could confirm it”.
