Report: The £40m reason why Ibrahima Konate is leaving Liverpool this month
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A new report has indicated the pay packet that Ibrahima Konate had been seeking in order to agree a new contract at Liverpool.The Frenchman will leave Anfield as a free agent this month after five years with the Reds, having been unable to reach an agreement on terms with the club over a renewed deal, and he’s set to join Real Madrid ahead of next season.DOWNLOAD THE OFFICIAL EMPIRE OF THE KOP APP FOR ALL THE LATEST & BREAKING UPDATES – STRAIGHT TO YOUR PHONE! ON APPLE & GOOGLE PLAYAs recently as mid-April, the defender publicly proclaimed that he was likely to remain on Merseyside, but it’s since emerged that there was a sizeable discrepancy between what he wanted and what FSG were prepared to offer him.How much was Konate seeking in order to remain at Liverpool?A report for Football Insider has claimed that Konate’s wage demands ‘killed’ any chances of a contract renewal at Liverpool, who were understood to have offered him a ‘similar’ package to what he was already earning (£150,000 per week, according to Capology) It was mentioned that the Merseyside club were ‘willing to forego a transfer fee further down the line’, rather than agreeing to a deal which, ‘were it to have run for four years, would have been worth over £40m’, combined with additional costs such as agents fees.
Add us as a preferred source on Google to your favourites list for news you can trust Could Liverpool have feasibly agreed to Konate’s demands? The exits of Mo Salah and Andy Robertson will instantly remove £560,000 from Liverpool’s weekly wage bill (Capology), in which context an extra £42,000 or so for Konate would seem to have been more than feasible.
Had the Reds agreed to the centre-back’s demands, it would’ve brought him up to being the sixth best-paid player at Anfield, with five men in Andoni Iraola’s squad on £200,000 or more per week (Capology). Let’s just hope that, in time, the Anfield hierarchy don’t live to regret being unable to meet what Konate reportedly wanted in order to remain on Merseyside.