Sadio Mane and Cristiano Ronaldo met by chance before the start of this season, when the former Liverpool striker had just arrived at Bayern Munich.
“I accidentally met him (Ronaldo – PV) while on vacation in Mallorca in the summer. He congratulated me on my decision to leave Liverpool to move to Bayern. He praised Bayern as a great club and said it’s a move. mine is right,” Mane told BILD Sport .
Also in a conversation with the German newspaper, Mane praised the Bundesliga teams: “Ronaldo’s praise shows how good the German teams are. As mentioned before, I think people overestimate it. low expertise of the Bundesliga”.
This season, German football contributed three teams in the 1/8 Champions League round , including Bayern, Dortmund and Frankfurt. In the first leg, while Frankfurt lost 0-2 to Napoli , Bayern and Dortmund had 1-0 victories over Paris Saint-Germain and Chelsea .
At “Gray Lobster”, Mane started relatively smoothly when he scored 11 goals in 24 appearances in all competitions. However, injury in mid-November made the 31-year-old striker miss the 2022 World Cup and a total of 9 Bayern matches. On February 26, the former Liverpool striker returned to the pitch when he came on as a substitute in a 3-0 victory over Union Berlin in the Bundesliga.
Like Mane, Ronaldo also moved to a new destination in 2022 after being terminated by Manchester United. Under the shirt of Al Nassr in Saudi Arabia, the Portuguese superstar currently has 8 goals after 5 appearances. The 38-year-old striker received the February Best Player award of the top division of Saudi Arabia.
Returning to Bayern, Mane is trying to find the feeling of playing again after a period of convalescence. On March 5, the Senegalese striker is likely to continue to play from the bench in the match between the Bavarian team and Stuttgart in the 23rd round of the Bundesliga.
