Liverpool assistant coach Peter Krawietz has hailed the leadership qualities of Sadio Mane.
Mane signed for Liverpool five years ago this week from Southampton.
Krawietz says Mane is now a dressing room leader, telling liverpoolfc.com: "He leads by example, he leads by quality, he leads by his attitude. Of course he developed to become a more experienced player, to win titles - and all these titles we won, he was one of the most important players we had on the pitch. For nearly four years, he is always available, he is playing so many games and he always brings this certain energy for the team.
"He is, at the end, for the other teams not-to-defend. Even if he is losing one or two or three dribbles, you always know he will be able to break through in the next second so this is why it is so unbelievably difficult to defend him and why he is, of course, one of the keys for us. I cannot describe well enough how big his value is for our team."
Krawietz also stated: "His development to become a quiet leader, his personality, the readiness to work on certain things. You can see the fire which is burning inside him on the pitch and a lot of opponents try to provoke him.
"This is something that he learned during the years as well, to stay calm and at the same time not to lose his fire and his will and his ambition to play successful football and to give the opponent no possibility to bring him out of the middle of his brain, to disturb his concentration or his focus.
"This is something that he improved so massively and is a clear sign of his personality and his development to be one of the top three players in the world in his position as a winger."
