PSG, Real Madrid Get Major Transfer Update on Liverpool Star

Liverpool defender Ibrahima Konaté is getting into the ultimate yr of his contract, with no extension but agreed, leaving questions on his long-term future at Anfield.

Stories recommend each PSG and Actual Madrid are monitoring the scenario intently and will make a transfer if no deal is finalized earlier than the January switch window.

Foot Mercato Notes that Konaté has already been provided to a number of prime European golf equipment—together with PSG, Actual Madrid, and Barcelona—hinting {that a} switch could also be on the horizon as his contract approaches its finish.

Can Liverpool Maintain Onto PSG, Actual Madrid Goal?

Switch professional Fabrizio Romano stories that Liverpool and Ibrahima Konate are nonetheless in talks over a brand new contract. The middle-back is additionally reportedly excessive on Actual Madrid’s checklist of potential free-transfer targets subsequent summer season.

🚨 Discussions between Liverpool and Ibrahima Konate over a brand new contract are nonetheless ongoing.

He is excessive on Actual Madrid’s checklist of targets as a free switch subsequent summer season.

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Liverpool are reportedly open to promoting Konaté within the January switch window if a brand new contract isn’t agreed upon. Former Manchester United and Blackburn scout Mick Brown informed Soccer Insider that supervisor Arne Slot nonetheless believes the membership can discover an improve on the 26-year-old.

“Liverpool will likely be making efforts to maintain Konaté,” Brown stated. “They haven’t obtained nice cowl at centre-back, there’s Joe Gomez who can do a job and they’ve introduced within the younger lad Giovanni Leoni from Italy. The difficulty they’ve with Konate is that he all the time appears to have a mistake in him.

“That’s why they wished Marc Guehi, he’s an excellent possibility and he brings stability. It takes the priority away from the again line they’ve obtained in the meanwhile, and that’s why they’ve been trying to enhance at centre-back. Having missed out on Guehi, they don’t have the depth to do away with Konate now.

“In order that they’ll be making efforts for him to signal a brand new contract. If he doesn’t, then they’ll have a choice to make and it wouldn’t shock me to see him go away in January relatively than on a free on the finish of the yr. Particularly in the event that they return in for Guehi, as a result of he’d be a direct substitute. So all of it relies on how these talks go over his new contract.”