Sadio Mane has struggled at Bayern Munich this season being he is “worn out” following his time at Liverpool.
That’s according to former midfielder Didi Hamann, who believes the Senegal forward has hit a brick wall like many of his former Liverpool colleagues.
Mane joined Bayern in a €32m deal from Liverpool in the summer after six very successful years at Anfield following a move from Southampton in July 2016.
He had long been one of the stars of the show for the Reds under Jurgen Klopp, fitting perfectly into the high pressing system the German wanted and forming a deadly trio with Roberto Firmino and Mohamed Salah.
That has naturally led to some questions being raised about the transfer and whether it was as good a deal for Bayern as many believed it was.
Hamann doesn’t feel that way, though, and instead believes Mane is just suffering from the same burnout that appears to have hit his former teammates at Liverpool.
“He is a machine,” he told Sky Germany, who add that the forward has ‘been playing at his limit for the last 5-6 years.’
“But at the moment, like most Liverpool players, he has a piston seizure. I think he is just worn out.”
“At some point it’ll be good (but) at the moment, when Coman and Sane are fit, they have to play, so he has to get in line.”
