Bayern’s Sadio Mane set to join Ronaldo at Saudi’s Al Nassr

<p>Bayern Munich announced on Saturday that Senegalese striker Sadio Mane was in talks “about a change of club” with reports suggesting he was destined for Saudi side Al Nassr.</p>, <p>The German champions left Mane out of a friendly match in Tokyo, posting on social media, “Sadio Mane is in contract negotiations about a change of club and is therefore not in the line-up today.”</p>, <p>The 31-year-old former Liverpool star is expected to become the latest high profile player to join the cash-rich Saudi league.</p>, <p>As Bild and Kicker magazine reported Mane was on his way for a medical with Al Nassr, Bayern coach Thomas Tuchel declined to be drawn on the player’s future.</p>, <p>“We are still in the transfer window and I would like to see what’s going on and wait and see how things will happen,” he told reporters after Bayern’s 1-0 win over Kawasaki Frontale in Japan.</p>, <p>Mane would be another major signing for the club that pulled off the first coup of a raft of signings by Saudi clubs, luring Cristiano Ronaldo, the five-time Ballon d’Or winner.</p>, <p>Mne won the Champions League and Premier League in six seasons with Liverpool and was a key part of Jurgen Klopp’s devastating front three with Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino.</p>, <p>When Liverpool won their first English league title for 30 years in the pandemic-disrupted 2019-2020 season, Mane scored 18 goals.</p>, <p>But in the summer of 2022, when he won the African Player of the Year, Mane decided he wanted a new challenge – unconfirmed rumours said he had tired of sharing the limelight with Egypt’s Salah at Anfield.</p>, <p>Bayern made a big play for Mane, promising to make him the focal point of an attack which had just lost the services of Robert Lewandowski to Barcelona.</p>, <p>After a strong start to the season at Bayern, it soon become clear that Mane was not clicking in Bavaria.</p>, <p>In a Bundesliga game against Werder Bremen in November, Mane suffered an injury to his fibula and his season was put on hold.</p>, <p>The injury forced him