{"id":22081,"date":"2022-06-27T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T16:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/06\/27\/dortmund-chief-hits-out-at-former-liverpool-star-for-sadio-mane-comments\/"},"modified":"2022-06-27T12:00:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T16:00:40","slug":"dortmund-chief-hits-out-at-former-liverpool-star-for-sadio-mane-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/06\/27\/dortmund-chief-hits-out-at-former-liverpool-star-for-sadio-mane-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Dortmund chief hits out at former Liverpool star for Sadio Mane comments"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Borussia Dortmund\u2019s chief executive has criticised a former Liverpool player for their comments about Sadio Mane.<\/p>\n

Mane recently completed a \u00a335million move to Bayern Munich for the Reds, ending his six-year stay on Merseyside.<\/p>\n

This promoted former Liverpool player Dean Saunders to state that he did not understand why Mane would have wanted to leave Liverpool, and questioned the standard of the Bundesliga:<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m still baffled why he\u2019s gone,\u201d Saunders had told talkSPORT. \u201cWhy would you leave Liverpool when everybody loves you, the manager loves you, your teammates love you?<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re playing in the best front-three you\u2019re ever going to play in, in your life. You\u2019re never gonna go to a better team than he\u2019s in right now.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not a challenge. He will get in his armchair, light a cigar up, he\u2019ll play for Bayern in third gear and he\u2019ll coast for two years and ruin the best two years of his life as a footballer.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Following Saunders\u2019 comments, Dortmund CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke has labelled the former Liverpool star as an \u2018arrogant idiot\u2019 for his remarks about the Bundesliga.<\/p>\n

Watzke also made a dig at English clubs for their efforts in Europe last term:<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are always some arrogant idiots like this one,\u201d Watzke told Bild on Saunders\u2019 comments. \u201cAs a member of the board of Europe\u2019s club association ECA, I know that German football still has a good reputation. The English didn\u2019t win any of the three European Cup titles in the past season!\u201d<\/p>\n

And whilst Mane may never come out and state the exact reason he chose to leave Liverpool for Bayern, one explanation does seem to stand out.<\/p>\n

That being the fact that the Bundesliga, especially now Erling Haaland has left Dortmund, is very much a one-club division, meaning Mane should have little issue adding a decent amount of silverware to his collection in the next few years. Whereas had he stayed at Liverpool, the Reds have the much harder task of competing with Manchester City.<\/p>\n

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