I'm not sure if people commenting haven't seen his interview or not. He wasn't being moody
He was asked about his future and tries to jokingly brush the question off with what he said.
I'm not sure why any Liverpool fans are upset with him at all. He's 30 years old, we've had the best years of his career and he wants a new challenge. Half of you have been calling for him to be dropped for most of the past 18 months anyway! He's likely to get a final big contract, something I don't believe we'd give him and according to reports he's being told he'll be the main man at Bayern, something he's never been with us and moving forwards he's going to become even less important to our side.
There's a reason why he has just 12 months left on his contract and there's been little to no reports of contract talks with him and that's because I don't believe the club had any intention of keeping him beyond next summer at the latest. The way we play, particularly in attack, just isn't suited to older players. You only have to look at Mane's form in the 12-18 months prior to January to see that the workload had taken it's toll on him and he wasn't able to perform as he had for the 4 years previous. It's only since moving into a CF role that his form had picked up and it's no doubt that was largely down to the role being less physically demanding.
There is not a chance that we were going into next season extending the contracts of 3 x 30+ year old forwards. Salah's the only one I think the club would be willing to give a longer term deal to and even that is subject to the terms being right. In Diaz and Jota we've already gone a long way to replacing Mane and Firmino meaning both are going to play less and less moving forwards, leaving you with a decision as to whether to keep them for another season (+ maybe a 1 year extension (which Mane wouldn't accept imo)) or moving them on now. In an ideal world you'd keep Mane for the season and cash in on Firmino now but we don't live in ideal worlds - I don't think Mane accepts being a squad player moving forwards (Firmino would) and you're not receiving a meaningful fee for Firmino this summer where as you still would for Mane. Mane moving on and us looking to find the new Mane this summer just makes sense for all parties imo.
These players aren't going to play forever and it's far easier to replace them with £40m from selling one now than with nothing in 12 or 24 months. I honestly believe had covid not hit that the club may have looked to sell Mane or even Salah 12 months earlier, receiving an even larger fee to fund the next generation of the front line.