Anwar Ibrahim (Cairo)
After the perfect start with which Senegalese Sadio Mane started his matches with his new team, Bayern Munich, in which he showed his importance as an active element in the team, and his victory with the “Bavarian” in the German Super Cup at the beginning of the season, and despite the five goals he scored in 10 matches, his level declined. During the last five matches, during which he did not know the way to the goal.
It was clear that he was still not adapted enough to play with his new team, and in the position of the spearhead was occupied by the Polish striker Robert Lewandowski, who moved to Barcelona, which is assumed that Mane came to the “Bavarian” to compensate for the departure of the “dangerous scorer”.
The lackluster situation in which Mane appeared recently in his team’s matches, and in particular his match against Barcelona in the second round, for the group stage of the Champions League, pushed veteran star Dietmar Hamann, one of the German midfielders, who played for Bayern Munich 1993-1998 and Liverpool 1999-2006, To say that this Senegalese international did not get along with the rest of his colleagues, and did not integrate into German football and the matches of the “Bundesliga” league, and that he needs more time.
And he added in an interview with the “GMX” network: Mane still has difficulty adapting, and does not play at his comfort, as he was in Liverpool, and that his participation as a spearhead does not suit him, because he prefers to go from the wing to the heart, but the problem is that the left wing who Mane loves him, and he is currently occupied by more than one very good player, most notably Leroy Sane, Jamal Musila and Kingsley Coman, and sometimes added to them the full-back Lucas Hernandez.
Hamann, who played 191 games with the Reds and scored 8 goals, said: No one is talking about Mane at the moment, and he seems somewhat isolated, and the features of his face, when he was outside the Allianz Arena, when he changed in the Barcelona match, indicated that he was not happiness, and involves feelings of frustration. Hamann believes that in such a situation, Julian Nagelsmann must intervene to control this situation, and there is no objection to Mane sitting on the “bench” for a while, provided that he participates as a substitute, until he regains confidence in himself and returns to his high level With the Reds.
Hamann admitted that sitting on the “bench” may actually be better, but demanded that he be involved in a wing, because that is better for him and the team, rather than the spearhead position occupied by Lewandowski.
He added: Mane is in dire need of restoring confidence in himself, as soon as possible, in order to regain his effectiveness, which was his most prominent feature with Liverpool, and to wake up from his long slumber.
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