Jurgen Klopp was asked about Sadio Mane's chances of winning the Ballon d'Or this season after his brilliant performance helped the team gain a 2-0 advantage to take into the second leg of the Champions League semi-final.
'Wow! He plays an outstanding season, Sadio is an outstanding player, I have nothing to do with the Ballon d’Or nomination and all these kind of things, I don’t understand it really 100 per cent.
"He is world-class and played again a really good game for us. I don’t know exactly how you come to that question now, the season is not even over.
"Historically you have to win something, I think, to win the Ballon d’Or most of the time. It was like this, that if you are not Messi or Ronaldo you have to win probably the Champions League, which we didn’t do yet so give us a few more weeks and then we will see where we end up.
"Sadio wants to contribute, Sadio wants to help the team and that’s what I love most of all."
