Sadio Mane made his Bundesliga debut for Bayern Munich on Friday night. Having kissed goodbye to Liverpool on the back of defeat in the Champions League final, the Senegalese sensation moved to another European giant with a passionate fanbase from a sports-loving city.
And while pretty much every Kopite will no doubt have been desperate for him to have stayed this summer, they must equally have seen what was attractive to Mane about a move to the Allianz Arena.
After all, you only had to look at what the 30-year-old got up to during his second appearance for Bayern in the 6-1 demolition of Eintracht Frankfurt to see what appealed so much about a Bavaria switch.
Mane was already in the Bayern fans’ good books going into the league curtain-raiser on the back of his debut in the DFL-Supercup, opening his account by scoring in a 5-3 thriller against RB Leipzig.