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Now, Liverpool center-back Ibrahima Konate is inside the final year of his contract.

For that reason, rumors and speculation about his future are inevitable.

And Real Madrid, according to Fabrizio Romano, is "working on" a deal that would see Konate move to the Bernabeu on a free transfer in the summer of 2026.

That would, of course, be a repeat of the La Liga giant's deal for Alexander-Arnold, though it did, in the end, pay a fee to sign the former Liverpool vice-captain early so that he could play in the Club World Cup.

However, when he was then asked if he was close to signing it, he responded: "That’s another conversation!"

Reports then emerged that Konate was close to signing new terms.

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"You know, I just want to say one thing: everything you saw on social media is completely fake," Konate said at the end of last season, responding to more speculation over his future

And even the big journalists said in November I am very close to signing the deal