One Liverpool participant has confirmed that he was supplied a contract extension by the membership in latest weeks.
Reds followers proceed to nervously await concrete developments relating to new offers for Mo Salah, Virgil van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold, every of whom are at present set to stroll away from Anfield as free brokers in June.
They’re not the one three gamers for whom a brand new contract is perhaps within the offing, although, with Fabrizio Romano reporting in the beginning of December that LFC chiefs had been in talks with Ibrahima Konate to try to lengthen his keep on the membership.
Konate reveals Liverpool contract provide
The French defender spoke to the press on Monday afternoon forward of the Champions League conflict in opposition to Lille tomorrow night time, and he was requested whether or not he was near signing a brand new contract.
The 25-year-old replied (by way of Liverpool FC on YouTube): “Who talked about that a number of months in the past? The membership didn’t say something; I didn’t say something. One particular person stated that and I used to be not prepared.
“I didn’t know when he stated that, however afterwards I spoke with the membership. I’m actually centered on what occurs now and we’ll see what is going to occur.”
Konate was then requested if LFC had supplied him a brand new deal and he succintly answered ‘Sure‘. When quizzed as as to if or not he was near signing it, he responded with a smile: “That is one other dialog!”
Will Liverpool study from present contract saga?
The Frenchman’s present contract expires in June 2026, and with the offers of his three aforementioned teammates being inexplicably uncared for by the membership till now, possibly the hierarchy are desperate to study from that saga and have their geese in a row with different gamers nicely upfront.
The 25-year-old is within the center third of the Liverpool squad’s pay scale on £70,000 per week (Capology), not a an exorbitant quantity when contemplating that it’s lower than half of what Federico Chiesa earns and can also be inferior to Joe Gomez and Kostas Tsimikas, who’d be much less frequent starters than our quantity 5.
It’s the contract conditions of Salah, Trent and Van Dijk that supporters will wish to see resolved posthaste, though it’s at the very least encouraging that Anfield chiefs have tangibly proven a want to maintain Konate on the membership past the top of subsequent season.
As soon as the trio whose offers are up this summer time have been sorted (ideally with extensions of their very own), FSG can then swap their focus to ensurign that the charismatic France worldwide stays on Merseyside for the remainder of his 20s.
