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title: "Manchester United: Red Devils fans react to Sadio Mane’s surprising admission"
canonical: "https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/manchester-united-red-devils-fans-react-to-sadio-manes-surprising-admission/"
type: "post"
language: "en-GB"
author: "Thomas Ward"
section: "Manchester United Football Club"
published: "2020-04-12T08:40:21Z"
modified: "2020-04-12T08:40:21Z"
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# Manchester United: Red Devils fans react to Sadio Mane’s surprising admission

**Loads of Manchester United supporters reacted to Sadio Mane’s surprising revelation about his time at Southampton.**

Speaking to The Times via the [Evening Standard](https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/sadio-mane-manchester-united-transfer-liverpool-jurgen-klopp-snub-a4410716.html), the Liverpool forward remarked his representatives “were thinking most about Manchester United” before he moved to Merseyside from St Mary’s in 2016.

After arriving at Anfield for a reported fee worth [£37m](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/sadio-mane/profil/spieler/200512), the Senegalese international gone on to become an icon at the club. This season alone he has made 26 appearances in the Premier League, bagging 14 goals, creating 7 assists, taking 2.3 shots per game, and completing 1.9 dribbles on average via [WhoScored](https://www.whoscored.com/Players/109915/Show/Sadio-Man%C3%A9). His market value is now priced at a staggering £108m via [Transfermarkt](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/sadio-mane/profil/spieler/200512).

While there is no doubt some fans are wishfully thinking about what could have been, if Mane had transferred to Old Trafford instead, a couple of others have argued the 28-year-old would have had a hard time getting game time ahead of United academy graduate Marcus Rashford.

The 22-year-old has played in 22 games in the English top flight under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer in this campaign and only has 4 goal fewer than the Senegal striker, scoring 14 times whilst also providing 4 assists, averaging 3.4 shots and successfully completing at least 2 dribbles per game, according to [WhoScored](https://www.whoscored.com/Players/300299/Show/Marcus-Rashford).

One Red Devil cheekily commented Mane would have been a “backup for Lingard” and another noted he “could have been a Tevez-like signing.”

Scroll through the mixed reactions down below…

https://twitter.com/RedDeviil93/status/1248778794829217792?s=20

> This made me die a little more inside [#MUFC](https://twitter.com/hashtag/MUFC?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [#MUFC\_Family](https://twitter.com/hashtag/MUFC_Family?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [pic.twitter.com/8FUTLG743b](https://t.co/8FUTLG743b)
>
> — Marcel Paulse (@marcelpaulse) [April 10, 2020](https://twitter.com/marcelpaulse/status/1248596813403357185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> Pity.. Superb player…
>
> — keithgreenedub@yahoo (@keithgreenedub) [April 11, 2020](https://twitter.com/keithgreenedub/status/1248892001946402817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> Backup for lingard
>
> — Amaan Akhtar (@amaanakhtar800) [April 11, 2020](https://twitter.com/amaanakhtar800/status/1248876312992845824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> He could have been a Tevez like signing.
>
> — Man United Mumbai (@ManUnitedOpini1) [April 11, 2020](https://twitter.com/ManUnitedOpini1/status/1248771394864701441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> Don’t care Rashford has more potential
>
> — A1 (@dippadanSP) [April 11, 2020](https://twitter.com/dippadanSP/status/1248771144867602432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> Rashford \> mane
>
> — Ole’sGunnaGetYa (@nlock\_o) [April 10, 2020](https://twitter.com/nlock_o/status/1248600624905756674?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

***Man Utd fans, do you wish you had signed Mane? Let us know below…***