Liverpool lost their best player in Sadio Mane this summer and are not the same without him, according to Jamie O’Hara.
The pundit, speaking in the video below from talkSPORT, believes Luis Diaz won’t be able to replace what Mane brought to the Liverpool team, suggesting that the Senegal international was actually their best player, even if Mohamed Salah often gets more of the credit.
Watch the video clip below in full, as O’Hara says it now seems that Liverpool are no longer genuine title challengers this season after the departure of Mane, which, it must be said, increasingly looks like one of the major transfer blunders of the whole summer…
? “Everyone’s chasing City but I don’t think Liverpool are challengers this year!”
? “They’re missing Mane! Diaz is never going to get the numbers that Mane got.”
?? “They’ve lost their best player!”@MrJamieOHara1 doesn’t think #LFC are challenging for the #PL title! ? pic.twitter.com/M24g10abd0
— talkSPORT (@talkSPORT) September 5, 2022
Mane did great work for Liverpool both on and off the ball, and he’ll now surely be a major asset for Bayern Munich.
? EXCLUSIVE ?
?? @FabrizioRomano on Naby Keita and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain failing to make the #LFC #UCL squad: "I believe that next summer both players will evaluate their future. Keita has already had opportunities in the summer…"
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— CaughtOffside (@caughtoffside) September 5, 2022
Diaz has also performed well for LFC since moving from Porto back in January, so it perhaps seems a bit premature of O’Hara to be writing him off, but at the same time it’s no doubt the Colombian winger has big boots to fill in Jurgen Klopp’s squad.