John Aldridge says what every Liverpool fan is thinking about Ibrahima Konate after World Cup stinker

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Ibrahima Konate will never be viewed in the same light by Liverpool supporters after running his contract down to leave for Real Madrid this summer.The Frenchman arguably made himself look worse by claiming that he was close to signing a new deal in April, only to exit anyway. After years of negotiations, Konate was a Real Madrid player just weeks after the end of the season.For obvious reasons, this has not gone down well with Liverpool fans, who have delighted in the fact that, up until Saturday, Konate had played only a handful of minutes at this summer’s World Cup with France.

Make ONE prediction about the rest of Dominik Szoboszlai’s Liverpool career He's here for the next FIVE years 😍 Credit: Getty Images/Nikki Dyer/Liverpool FC That changed for the bronze medal match against England, when the 27-year-old was handed a start. Watching on, as plenty of Liverpool fans will have been, former Reds striker John Aldridge couldn’t help but take a dig at the Reds’ former No.

5.Aldridge delighted by Konate exitThe way Konate went about his exit from the club this summer was arguably even worse than how Trent Alexander-Arnold handled his own departure.His claim that he was close to staying and had always wanted to stay was a blatant attempt to pull the wool over supporters’ eyes and avoid the kind of negative reception Alexander-Arnold received in 2025.While it worked at the time, fans see straight through Konate now, and after he delivered a performance for France that anybody who watched Liverpool last season will not have been surprised by, Aldridge hailed the decision not to bow to the centre-back’s contract demands.Photo by Eddie Keogh – The FA/The FA via Getty ImagesREAD MORE: Liverpool supporters pick their favourite Spanish and Argentine Reds before the 2026 World Cup final“0-4 to England at H-T and not giving Konate a new deal looks great business,” the Scouser wrote on X, alongside a winking and a hand waving emoji.“He’s continuing to be so bad for his country as he was for us !!!”Konate will have his moments for Real Madrid, as he did for Liverpool, but it is becoming increasingly clear that Virgil van Dijk was one of the biggest reasons for any success he had with the Reds.Forced to lead a back line alongside Maxence Lacroix in Miami, Konate fell apart. After the way he treated Liverpool supporters, there will have been a few struggling to hold back the laughter.