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Published 11:11 27 May 2022 BST
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"I have to say, I was really close to going to Manchester United," Mane told Jamie Carragher in an interview for The Telegraph.
“I had the contract there. I had it all agreed. It was all ready, but instead I thought, ‘No, I want to go to Liverpool’. I was convinced to go with Klopp’s project. I still remember the first time I got the call from Klopp. “He said, ‘We have a big project at Liverpool and I want you to be part of it’."
"I had the contract there. I had it all agreed. It was all ready, but instead I thought, 'No, I want to go to Liverpool'. I was convinced to go with Klopp’s project. I still remember the first time I got the call from Klopp."
https://twitter.com/Watch_LFC/status/1530109154882375680He added: "I was watching TV. It was an action movie – because I love movies – and he said, 'Sadio, listen, I want to explain to you what happened at Dortmund'. That was when he thought of signing me for Dortmund and for some reason it didn’t work out. He tried to explain and I said, 'it’s okay, it happened'. I forgave him.
"Then he said, 'now I want you at Liverpool'. And I said, 'Okay, Dortmund is behind us, let’s focus on the future'.
"He said, 'We have a big project at Liverpool and I want you to be part of it'. Then he asked what position I wanted, because he could see at Southampton I played on the right side and I used to play on the left. I said I prefer left, and then he said, 'but Coutinho is on the left!' So I said, never mind, I will play on the right. I could see myself in all the positions."
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