Jamie Carragher is a huge fan of the Liverpool bullet.
Jamie Carragher has revealed that he ‘absolutely loves’ Liverpool winger Sadio Mane, whom he described as a ‘machine’.
Mane has been a revelation since his £30 million move to Liverpool from Southampton in 2016 [The Telegraph].
The Senegal international was the first big-name player to arrive at Anfield in the Jurgen Klopp era, and he has since gone on to be one-third of arguably the most fierce attacking trident in European football, along with Roberto Firmino and Mo Salah.
The 27-year-old scored his 50th Premier League goal for the Reds in the 2-1 win over Leicester City last week, and Carragher admits that Mane is his favourite player on Merseyside right now.
He told Liverpool’s official website: “I absolutely love him, he’s my favourite player at the club. He’s brilliant, he’s always got a smile on his face, always there, always gets knocked about, gets goals, setting others up.
“He’s the one who came in at the very start under Klopp, his first real big signing, and I think ever since then he’s just been getting better and better. He’s just a machine.”
Mane often isn’t seen as the biggest or best Liverpool player, given that Jurgen Klopp also has Salah and Virgil van Dijk at his disposal, but he is no less important than either of those two.
Last season, he tied with Salah and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang as the Premier League’s top goalscorer after netting 22 times, underlining his importance.
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