In response to experiences from Spain, Arne Slot has despatched a really clear message to the Liverpool hierarchy concerning one participant in his present squad.
Within the final three months, there was a spate of exits from the group which romped to Premier League title glory final season, with Trent Alexander-Arnold, Caoimhin Kelleher, Luis Diaz and Darwin Nunez amongst these to have left.
Nonetheless, there’s one man particularly who the top coach is seemingly fairly keen to maintain at Anfield, amid a lot hypothesis over a possible exit within the foreseeable future.
Final month, David Lynch claimed that Actual Madrid want to signal Ibrahima Konate, who’s now into the ultimate yr of his contract and is reportedly nowhere close to agreeing a renewal with Liverpool.
Slot urges FSG to go all-out to maintain Konate
As per Defensa Central, Los Blancos proceed to take a powerful curiosity within the 26-year-old, a lot in order that they have been even ready to surrender their 50% stake in Actual Sociedad ahead Takefusa Kubo (who’d been linked with the Reds) if it meant signing the Frenchman.
Nonetheless, Slot has implored the board of administrators at Anfield to place in an ‘further effort’ to stop the towering centre-back from leaving the membership within the subsequent 12 months.
Liverpool might do with out one other contractual cleaning soap opera this season
The contract conditions of Alexander-Arnold, Mo Salah and Virgil van Dijk forged a shadow over a lot of the title-winning season…will we have now to endure an identical cleaning soap opera with Konate in the course of the 2025/26 marketing campaign?
His present weekly wage of £70,000 is among the many decrease finish of the pay scale at Liverpool (Capology), which appears all of the extra stunning when you think about that he began 30 Premier League matches las time period and has been hailed by Eurosport author Martin Mosnier as a ‘monster‘ defender.
The Frenchman was savaged by Jamie Carragher on Sky Sports activities over his ‘actually poor‘ efficiency in opposition to Bournemouth final week, and our quantity 5 was admittedly left trailing in Antonine Semenyo’s wake for the second-half equaliser.
Nonetheless, Konate – like the remainder of his teammates – should nonetheless be reeling from the tragic lack of an expensive pal in Diogo Jota just some weeks in the past, and it shouldn’t be forgotten that he was immense alongside Van Dijk in the course of the title-winning season.
Slot is aware of the 26-year-old’s qualities having now labored with him for almost 15 months, and Liverpool could be silly to easily let him run down his contract except his calls for are utterly unreasonable.
Hopefully FSG will take the top coach’s pleas on board and all events concerned will quickly be capable of attain an settlement to maintain the defender at Anfield for one more few years.
