He'll be hoping for a different result this time around, but as he lines up in his second successive Champions League final for Liverpool on Saturday, Sadio Mane will know that things could have been very different for him.
Because he could be a Manchester United player right now.
The Old Trafford interest in Mane was very real back in the summer of 2016 when Mane was leaving Southampton, and as he tells Liverpool legend Robbie Fowler , the Senegalese even went as far as meeting with then United boss Louis van Gaal to discuss a possible move.
But once he spoke to Jurgen Klopp, he knew that there was only one club for him.
Read this extract of our exclusive chat with one of Liverpool's main men in Saturday's Champions League final against Tottenham Hotspur.
Robbie Fowler: The spirit in the team seems incredible right now.
Sadio Mane: I never thought it could be like this. It is incredible. Everybody in the team loves Klopp! Usually you go a club and the players are complaining, like, ‘ah the coach…’ but here it is the opposite. Everybody is happy and we do everything together.
RF: It could have been different. There was talk of Manchester United wanting to sign you as well as Liverpool .
SM: Yes, I was really, really close because I even met up with them. So I was coming, I was there and I spoke with the boss who was there before (Van Gaal).
They made an offer, but in the same week, Klopp called me. He said: “I think it’s the right club. The right coach for me, and I think it’s better that I go to Liverpool’. For me I think it was the right time as well. I said, “I am going to Liverpool.”
RF: Easy decision: Liverpool is the biggest club in the world!
SM: At that time, leaving Southampton , I saw many clubs, but I think Liverpool is the right club for me. I play against Liverpool, I play against City, United, every team and I scored a lot against Liverpool when I was at Southampton, but still I thought this club is my club!
The boss (Klopp) was at Liverpool and yet I always scored against them. I think he thought: ‘He’s always killing us, so let’s buy him!’ Yeah, just to stop me scoring against Liverpool – so it was good for us both!
