Sadio Mane of Liverpool has invested nearly £700,000 on new structures for his Senegalese home community of Bambali, including a hospital, school, post office, and gas station.
Mane, who is expected to depart Anfield this summer for Bayern Munich in search of greener pastures, visited Bambali last week and participated in a muddy soccer match with former Premier League players Papiss Cisse and El-Hadji Diouf.
The 30-year-old visited the £455,000 hospital in Senegal that he helped fund the previous year and which serves 34 nearby towns.
The good-hearted forward, who also invested £250,000 in the village’s public secondary school, is gradually turning Bambali into a town; it already has a population of more than 2,000.
In addition to pledging money to establish a post office, he was captured on camera opening a new gas station.
Mane’s generosity, though, goes far beyond just paying for new structures.
In addition, the school has received laptops, free athletic gear has been distributed to local kids, and 4G internet has been deployed.
The Liverpool star, who successfully completed a medical on Tuesday and will shortly sign a three-year contract at the Allianz Arena, has apparently reached a personal agreement with Bayern.
It’s estimated that the transfer fee will be somewhere around £35.1 million.