Liverpool Transfer News: Sadio Mane Medical and Fee Set, Latest Rumours

Sadio Mane will reportedly undergo his medical on Monday after Liverpool agreed to a transfer fee to sign the skilled Southampton forward. There is some confusion regarding the fee, however, with reports quoting figures between £30 million and £36 million.

Chris Bascombe of the Daily Telegraph has detailed how Liverpool are accelerating their efforts to bring the Senegalese attacker to Anfield: "Liverpool have agreed [to] a £30 million fee for Southampton's Sadio Mane, whose move to Anfield will proceed over the next 24 hours. Mane will head to Merseyside for a medical on Monday when personal terms will be finalised with a view to a club statement early this week."

Kristian Walsh of the Liverpool Echo confirmed the medical and also noted how Southampton "have already signed Nathan Redmond from Norwich in anticipation of Mane's departure." But according to the Daily Mirror's Adrian Kajumba, Mane's price tag will be higher than £30 million:

In addition, Walsh revealed how Reds boss Jurgen Klopp is a longtime admirer of Mane "and has kept tabs on him since his Borussia Dortmund days."

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Now Klopp is ready to make Mane a key member of his evolving forward contingent at Liverpool, hoping he'll "add more goals to his lineup from a deeper attacking position," per Bascombe. He also noted how Mane is an alternative to Bayern Munich's Mario Gotze, who resisted a move to Liverpool.

Landing Mane, even at a steep fee, represents a genuine coup for Klopp. He'll know how to effectively utilise the 24-year-old's blistering pace and quality as a finisher.

Klopp's always favoured those attributes in swift and roaming forwards who combine fluid movement with rapid exchanges of passes in the final third. It's the dynamic central to Klopp's particular brand of high-octane and quick-breaking attacking football.

He already has some of the players to make this approach work, specifically Brazilian pair Philippe Coutinho and Roberto Firmino. Young Belgian centre-forward Divock Origi is raw but powerful and pacy enough to act as the focal point for a platoon of deeper, jet-heeled runners to play off and around.

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Mane often did exactly that alongside target man Graziano Pelle for the Saints. At other times, he partnered with fellow fleet-of-foot forward Shane Long to both work the flanks and roam into the middle.

Mane will give Klopp an instinctive mover off the ball and a confident finisher when given a chance. Those traits produced 15 goals across all competitions at club level last season, per WhoScored.com.

One problem is the mercurial nature of his performances, something described well by Jake Jackman of EPL Index: "The one criticism often brought up about Mane is that he is very much a streaky player and one that does well over a 10-game run but can then be invisible for the next 20. Consistency is something that needs to be added to his game."

Now, though, Mane is set to be surrounded by like-minded attackers who play a similar style in a system geared to making the most of lightning pace and smart running.