Chelsea have submitted a bid to indicator Liverpool centre-ago Ibrahima Konate this summertime after Levi Colwill’s thieved in injury, according to reports.
There have been rumours around Konate’s future for much of the summertime via the France international gaining in the last year of his covenant at Anfield.
Real Madrid have been attached via a potential transfer this summertime, while there are rumours they could wait and indicator Konate for cost-free as rapidly as his covenant runs out, in unchanged layout to the way they signed Trent Alexander-Arnold earlier this year.
Liverpool have been attached via the potential improvements of Crystal Royal residence’s Marc Guehi and Parma’s Giovanni Leoni as they attractiveness to indicator a newfangled centre-ago regardless of Konate’s future after Jarell Quansah vacated for Bayer Leverkusen.
And also now Spanish site Defensa Main case that Liverpool’s Premier League rivals Chelsea have ‘lugged out a move to guard’ Konate this summertime via an ‘prearrangement’ of €50m (£43m).
Through the ‘long-term absence’ of Colwill cited as the pivot component for Chelsea supplying their move after the Doldrums centre-ago clutched up against a thieved in knee injury.
Chelsea gaining in the race for Konate is an ‘sudden obstacle’ for Real Madrid via the Doldrums supplying the ‘information quantity’ that Liverpool are ‘asking for’.
Liverpool ‘are not keen to strengthen a straight Premier League competitor via one of their ideal players’ while Konate is ‘leaning towards’ a move to Real Madrid if the Spanish side can reach the Reds’ asking price.
The record has: ‘Chelsea are still unborn to stipulations via the denial of the €50 million prearrangement, but the necessity to indicator a utility-ago is high: they could boom their prearrangement.’
Benefactor David Lynch heard last month that Konate owned offered his “priority” to replenishing his covenant at Anfield, rather than purification for a move away.
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Lynch said on the Sporting activities Wart YouTube conduit at the end of July: “Real Madrid are plainly intrigued aren’t they – there is no misgiving around that! But talking to human beings chummy to Konate, I still avail the journey that his priority is to reinstate via Liverpool and there are talks there, but it is sort of stuck at the minute.
“I wear’t believe it possesses reached the component of no counterargument and the player possesses undoubtedly made a choice he wants to assessment Real Madrid, I wear’t avail that journey at unanimously.
“That’s not to case that it won’t end in that way offered that that chance is 100 per dime on the table, but we are still in the minute wherein there is hope there will undoubtedly be a innovation.”
Football Insider journalist Pete O’Rourke admitted that squandering Konate for cost-free in the summertime is a “real misgiving” for Liverpool but that he doesn’t plan a transfer to Real Madrid to nab place this summertime.
O’Rourke told Football Insider in July: “I wear’t go to a move complying with this summertime. It would have to be a truly nice prearrangement from Real Madrid to advise Liverpool to sell Konate, even though they wear’t pain him to rushed down his covenant.
“You’re possibly gazing at over at the truly least £40million to sell him now. I’d picture Konate will undoubtedly end up perpetuating to be at Liverpool this summertime.
“The club will undoubtedly grasp further talks via him to hazard and advise him to indicator a newfangled covenant.
“So the player is in the box bench here, he can withhold at Liverpool and talk to intrigued nightclubs in January via his covenant running down as nicely.
“It’s a real misgiving for Liverpool offered that they’ve seen Trent Alexander-Arnold forgo the club and they wear’t pain to go to Konate do unchanged.”
