Report: £43.5m player has now rejected three different contract offers from Liverpool
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Indeed, a lot of this expenditure was offset by the number of sales they made throughout the summer transfer window, but the fact that their net spend was still over £200million is shocking.
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However, it’s not only transfers in and out of Anfield that Liverpool have had to find a solution to this season.
Seeing as though Ibrahima Konate was one of the Premier League’s best centre-backs last season, it isn’t all that surprising to see Liverpool wanting to extend his stay.
The Frenchman’s contract is set to run out at the end of the 2025-26 season, and even though his first few performances for Liverpool were below par, he seems to have picked things up while away with France on international duty.
Indeed, his contract situation is likely weighing heavily on his head, but a new report from Spanish outlet Marca has outlined how hard Liverpool are actually trying to get him to extend his stay.
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And, even though the Reds have thought their offers were more than fair, Konate’s answer has ‘always been the same’ with the Frenchman sticking by his ‘refusal to expand the bond’ between the two.
At the start of the summer transfer window, Liverpool rated Konate at around £43.5million, with anything below that being flat-out rejected.
This hasn’t, however, stopped him from being linked with a free transfer to the Bernabeu next summer, with Los Blancos eyeing up a free transfer for the Frenchman.
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Indeed, he’d likely get far more money if he made the switch to Madrid, but with the quality of players that Liverpool have brought in this summer, it’s hard to see how he’d find better teammates to play alongside than the ones he currently has.