The roll call provides a comparison of Premier League goals in the last two seasons from David Silva, Christian Eriksen, Eden Hazard, Wayne Rooney, Riyad Mahrez and Mane himself.

Liverpool’s new number 19 is at the top of that exclusive group, level with the Leicester title winner, on 21 strikes.

“I didn’t realise I had scored more goals than famous players like that,” he says. “I don’t feel am I among those players yet. One of my objectives is to get there.

“I actually believe that my work starts now. I am not thinking, ‘I’m at Liverpool Football Club (I have made it)’. I am thinking, ‘I am at Liverpool, the work is beginning.’

“In my mind I don’t think I have done anything. Everything that has gone before is the past. Now is the start of things.”

Liverpool will admire his honesty and humility and then hope, with the greatest respect, his perception of where he stands in the natural order is skewed.