Former Fulham striker Diomansy Kamara says Sadio Mane may have to leave Liverpool to win the Ballon d'Or.

Mane has spoken this week about winning the FIFA award.

And fellow Senegalese Kamara told ESPN: "If Mané one day wants to win the Ballon d'Or, he may need to leave Liverpool because the club may not be the best advocate for him, despite their outstanding achievements.

"He has to continue on the road he goes because he was not too far from getting on the podium, and I think he might have deserved to win this year.

"Now he has to keep working and maybe even change club, because we have seen that Liverpool does not really play for Mané's strengths and (people) gave their votes to Virgil van Dijk even though Mané and to a lesser extent Mohamed Salah were on the same level."