Messi Wished Sadio Mane To Be a part of Barcelona – Cisse

Sadio Mane’s advisor, Bacary Cisse, has revealed that former Barcelona captain, Lionel Messi, wished the Senegal worldwide at Camp Nou final 12 months.

Mane left Liverpool this summer season, sealing a transfer to Bayern Munich.

Nevertheless, his profession may have gone in a really completely different course had Barcelona acted on Messi’s suggestion up to now, in accordance with Cisse.

Talking on RMC’s After Foot present, Cisse mentioned, “Final 12 months, he may have achieved it with FC Barcelona too. It was Lionel Messi who wished Sadio Mane, when it was a query of him extending to Barça. Earlier than he got here to Paris, he had given two names: Sadio Mane and an Argentine central defender.

“It was in June once they have been in the course of the Copa America.”

Nevertheless, Barcelona weren’t financially well-placed to pursue any of these two offers that their talisman had hoped for.

Ultimately, the Catalan even needed to let go of Messi, who departed the membership on a free switch to Paris Saint-Germain as a result of monetary constraints.