Michael Edwards agrees transfer for next Sadio Mane

Michael Edwards has agreed a transfer for the next Sadio Mane.

Liverpool have been really busy in the transfer market. It's very clear that this is the beginning of the new era under Michael Edwards and Richard Hughes.

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This new era will see Liverpool return to their data scouting model and target players who the recruitment team value the highest mostly based on their statistical performances.

In this new era, Liverpool have gone all out in signing marquee players like Florian Wirtz, Hugo Ekitike, Jeremie Frimpong and Milos Kerkez.

But they've also ensured they are looking ahead to the future. This is why Will Wright has been recruited from Salford City and why Armin Pecsi was brought in from Puskas Akademia.

They are purely back-up options for the first team right now but they are seen as players who could be future first team regulars.

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The duo are not the only signings of the future that Edwards has made and has been involved in. Liverpool are increasing their reach in global markets under Edwards.

That's why Kyle Wallbanks was appointed as the club's Global Talent Scouting Manager in Novemeber of last year. Since then, Liverpool have hired a number of Global Talent Scouts, including Tika Musonda, a former Chelsea academy player, and Stewart Downing, whose name will be very familiar to Liverpool fans.

As the start of this new era, Anfield Watch revealed exclusively that the Reds have already agreed their first deal. They have agreed to sign Sidy Barhama Ndiaye, who has already been training with the club and even made his debut for the Reds' U18 team.

With FSG's plans to expand into a multi-club model, Ndiaye is very much the first Edwards transfer of this era. After all, Edwards will be responsible not for Liverpool but for FSG's other club as well.

Only 15-years-old, Ndiaye won't be able to join Liverpool until January 2028, when he celebrates his 18th birthday. That's still about two and a half years from now.

When he does join, it's highly likely that Liverpool will plan to loan him to FSG's potential other club. Just like Chelsea have done with Kendry Paez, who also agreed his move two years prior to him joining the Blues, and had trained with the club before going out on loan to Strasbourg this summer.

In Ndiaye, Liverpool believe they have recruited a gem. He's a left-winger with incredible speed, and extremely direct. In many ways he can become the next Sadio Mane both for his country and for Liverpool.

There are shades of Mane in his style of play, the way he drops his shoulder and accelerates away from his opponents are pretty much carbon-copy to how Mane used to be in his prime.

This is why the club have acted to bring him in now, and beat the rest of the competition around Europe.

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