Ex Senegal forward Diomansy Kamara suggests that Sadio Mane may have to leave to leave Liverpool if he wants to win the Ballon d’Or.

Kamara believes the 27 year should have finished ahead of teammate Virgil Van Dijk in the voting process.

Kamara who played for Fulham in England says Liverpool may not be the best team if Sadio Mane wants to be recognized a the World’s best player.

“If Mane, one day wants to win the Ballon d’Or, he may have to leave Liverpool as the club are maybe not the best advocates for him, despite their outstanding performances,” Kamara is qouted by ESPN.

“He needs to continue on the road he’s going down, as he wasn’t too far from finishing on the podium, and even for me he maybe deserved to win it this year.

“Now he needs to continue to work, and maybe even change clubs, because we’ve seen that Liverpool don’t really play to Mane’s strengths and people gave their votes to Virgil van Dijk even though Mane and to a lesser extent Mohamed Salah were equally in the running.”

Mane’s Premier League record has been impressive scoring 80 times assisting 29 in 185 appearances since moving to England.

He helped Liverpool to its sixth European cup win in Madrid and picked up the UEFA Super Cup and the Club World Cup trophy for Liverpool.

He also led Senegal to second place finish at the 2019 Total Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt and was awarded best player in Africa.

Mane shared the 2018/2019 golden boot in the Premier League with teammate Mohammed Salah and Arsenal’s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang with 20 goals.

Even with this performance for the Reds Mane missed out on the UEFA’s best player award and the Ballon d’Or.

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