In keeping with reviews from Spain, Arne Slot has despatched a really clear message to the Liverpool hierarchy relating to 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.
Nevertheless, there’s one man specifically 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 wish to signal Ibrahima Konate, who’s now into the ultimate 12 months 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 robust 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.
Nevertheless, Slot has implored the board of administrators at Anfield to place in an ‘additional effort’ to forestall 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 solid a shadow over a lot of the title-winning season…will we’ve to endure an analogous cleaning soap opera with Konate through 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 shocking 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 towards Bournemouth final week, and our quantity 5 was admittedly left trailing in Antonine Semenyo’s wake for the second-half equaliser.
Nevertheless, Konate – like the remainder of his teammates – should nonetheless be reeling from the tragic lack of an expensive buddy in Diogo Jota just some weeks in the past, and it shouldn’t be forgotten that he was immense alongside Van Dijk through 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 can be silly to easily let him run down his contract until his calls for are fully unreasonable.
Hopefully FSG will take the top coach’s pleas on board and all events concerned will quickly have the ability to attain an settlement to maintain the defender at Anfield for one more few years.
