Sadio Mane not happy with Jurgen Klopp’s decision

Sadio Mane has insisted Liverpool players ‘love’ boss Jurgen Klopp as he reiterated the club must hang on to their manager to change their season.

Sadio Mane has insisted Jurgen Klopp will be able to reverse Liverpool’s difficult fate, explaining how the club’s players ‘love him’.

Mane joined Bayern Munich from the Reds last summer in a £35.1million deal. The veteran striker has brought down the curtain after six trophy-filled seasons at Anfield after making it clear he wanted a new challenge

The Senegalese star scored 120 goals in 269 appearances for Liverpool and won six major accolades during his time alongside Klopp, who struggled to adjust to life without the striker – who has always proven to be excellent during his time at Anfield.

However, Mane is confident the Reds and Klopp will soon be back to their best – and the two are a good game.

Liverpool will be back,” Mane told Bild. “I am convinced they will overcome this situation. They have had many injuries and difficult tests but Jurgen Klopp is definitely the right man. He will bring Liverpool back from this season – the players love him.”

The mutual respect and admiration between Mane and Klopp remains evident, despite the forward ending his spell at Merseyside to join Bayern.

Sadio Mane can help sort out new Liverpool problem while Jürgen Klopp must take Harvey Elliott as fact

By solving one Liverpool problem, Jürgen Klopp inadvertently exacerbated another. Sadio Mané and Harvey Elliott hold the key to a possible solution. Jürgen Klopp is currently playing a particularly nasty mole game. Every time he solves one problem at Liverpool another pops up – whether it’s replacing Sadio Mane or overcoming a hangover from last season’s disappointment, he’s been working overtime from the start in the countryside.

Critics will say Klopp has been guilty of sitting idly by, hammer hanging by his side, with more and more unresolved issues. And while some of Liverpool’s misfortunes were completely beyond their control, including prolonged injuries to three key forwards, there is an argument the manager should have been more proactive at times.

Still, it’s clear that Klopp is trying to solve the problems. A plethora of new formations were tried and late personnel changes came into effect, with Fabinho now seemingly relegated to the bench in favor of youngsters Stefan Bajčetić and Jordan Henderson facing fierce competition from Naby Keïta.

And while optimism was never widespread after a Brighton Cup exit, there were other signs that the problems that plagued Liverpool for much of the season are being resolved. Fresh off the back of two goals conceded, Klopp’s side again looked much less easy to cut, with Roberto De Zerbi’s side finally finding the net thanks to a poor deflection and free kick, nullifying a moment quality from Harvey Elliott.

The problem for Klopp is that this improvement comes at a price. After overpowering the press and calling back the high line, the odds were very high – Elliott could have been clinical but Mohamed Salah was not and that was roughly the sum of Liverpool’s unequivocal possibilities. It didn’t help that Klopp’s move coincided with injury and the consecutive comeback streak of Darwin Núñez, Mané’s ‘back-up’ in the summer, but his performances from the bench in the last two games didn’t help. does little to keep Liverpool alive. The bottom line is that the team lost some of their basic attacking principles and have looked a bit toothless ever since.

There is no clean workaround. Klopp knows how to create chances, but his proven methods are currently costing the defense dearly. With the personnel at his disposal unable to execute his preferred approach, he must simply continue to prioritize defense for the time being. However, there are ways to at least partially mitigate this new problem. For starters, Klopp could revisit football’s most basic truth: if you don’t shoot, you don’t score.

Liverpool’s data wizards usually counter him with a modern modification: if he doesn’t shoot from high-quality positions, he rarely scores. The development of qualitative opportunities is rightfully at the top of the wish list

But Liverpool had one shot for every 55 passes to Brighton – that sounds worrying whatever the context, but it’s even worse considering it was the home side who had more ball possession. Klopp’s team can’t afford to be pawns at the best of times, but certainly not when they sit down and see less of the ball. 

Jurgen Klopp has been forced to make Liverpool more defensive, but he needs to find a way to restore some threat. (Image: Photo by Andrew Powell/Liverpool FC via Getty Images)

By comparison, Brighton had one shot for every 41 passes while maintaining 58% possession. They were a team moving in the right direction in more ways than one – and it was ultimately Tariq Lamptey’s speculative effort that turned the game around.

Owned by former pro player Tony Bloom, the Seagulls are as data driven as they come, and there’s something to be said for the weight of numbers when trying to find the back of the net. Obviously being reduced to potshots from distance is a problem in itself, but Liverpool managed two shots on target throughout the game: quite simply, they needed to shoot more. It’s easy to forget given the eventual search for a historic quadruple, but Liverpool had their fair share of problems in the early part of last season. Mané in particular had lost his shooting boots