For Liverpool followers to listen to that the membership are coming into negotiations over contract extensions at Anfield will certainly come as a large aid.
The essential trio of Mo Salah, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Virgil van Dijk are all lower than 9 months away from changing into free brokers because it stands, though they’re not the one gamers for whom new offers may (hopefully) be brokered.
Liverpool start contract talks with Ibrahima Konate
In line with Paul Joyce for The Instances on Sunday evening, membership chiefs have commenced talks with Ibrahima Konate over a potential contract extension at Anfield.
Negotiations are understood to be merely ‘at a preliminary stage’ for now, however there’s a need to resume his dedication past the expiry of his present deal in 2026.
The £36m signing from RB Leipzig isn’t the one defender who’s presently within the technique of working in the direction of a brand new deal, with Jarell Quansah understood to be near agreeing improved phrases with the Reds.
Konate has loved a renaissance at Liverpool this season
Konate’s standing at Liverpool seemed to be at a low ebb just some months in the past after a tough finish to the 2023/24 season, however having been thrust again into the beginning XI by Arne Slot in August, the Frenchman has responded fantastically.
He’s already midway to assembly his self-imposed goal of 4 targets for the marketing campaign and has been a colossal determine on the coronary heart of the Reds’ defence, together with his match averages of three.6 profitable aerial duels and three.4 clearances placing him second within the squad for each metrics thus far this time period (WhoScored).
Van Dijk just lately hailed his centre-back associate’s type as ‘superb’ and, ominously for opposition forwards, insisted that the 25-year-old may ‘nonetheless be higher’ than what he’s proven of late.
With the Dutchman’s future up within the air amid his ongoing contract deadlock, Liverpool seem eager to forestall Konate from encountering an analogous diploma of uncertainty by getting him tied all the way down to a brand new deal which’d maintain him on the membership all through the prime interval of his taking part in profession.
We’re clearly hoping that our monumental captain will nonetheless be at Anfield this time subsequent yr, but when he had been to go away, the continued presence of the French centre-back in L4 would supply a major silver lining, within the hope that Ibou may then assume the mantle of commanding defensive chief for the Reds.
