Fabrizio Romano has urged that Liverpool may very well be closing in on agreeing a brand new contract with one present Reds participant.
Followers have been nervously awaiting vital information on Mo Salah, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Virgil van Dijk, whose present offers all expire in simply over eight months’ time, nevertheless it’s one in every of their teammates who appears to be like set to place pen to paper first.
Romano shares Liverpool contract replace
In an replace on his YouTube channel, Romano outlined that talks over a new contract for Ibrahima Konate are progressing properly and that membership and participant merely must thrash out just a few extra particulars earlier than the Frenchman indicators on the dotted line, which he’s very happy to do.
The Italian switch guru defined: “Liverpool are making excellent progress in negotiations with Ibrahima Konate. The expectation at Liverpool is that Ibou Konate would be the subsequent one to succeed in an settlement on a brand new contract. The wage is sort of agreed; it’s about some particulars of the contract.
“There are extra issues to make clear with the participant and his brokers, however Ibou Konate may be very blissful at Liverpool. He can really feel how necessary he’s for Liverpool and in addition for the brand new supervisor Arne Slot. Ibou Konate is absolutely anticipated to signal a brand new deal at Liverpool.”
Konate has been a key participant for Liverpool this season
For a lot of Liverpool followers, there are extra urgent contractual issues which want addressing urgently, nevertheless it’s nonetheless nice to listen to that Konate appears near extending his deal at Anfield, which at current runs to 2026.
The 25-year-old endured a troublesome finish to final season however has appeared revitalised beneath Slot, being thrown into the fray at half-time towards Ipswich on the opening day of the Premier League marketing campaign and never wanting again since then.
With averages of three.6 profitable aerial duels, 3.4 clearances and 0.7 blocks, the Frenchman ranks second within the Reds’ squad for every of these metrics, whereas he additionally has the second-best passing success charge (91.5%) of anybody to start out multiple top-flight match for us to date this time period (WhoScored)
These figures all underline how important an influence he’s had over the previous couple of months, and he’s even chipped in with two objectives, placing him midway in the direction of meeting his personal target for the season.
We’re all nonetheless ready on contract information on Salah, Trent and Van Dijk, nevertheless it represents a wise transfer to get Konate tied down in order that subsequent 12 months he doesn’t discover himself in the identical ‘will-he-won’t-he’ scenario as that trio of teammates.
You may view Romano’s replace on Konate beneath (from 5:38), through Fabrizio Romano on YouTube:
