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Liverpool starter makes honest transfer admission: 'To say no would be to lie'

Liverpool defender Ibrahima Konate

Ibrahima Konate during a Premier League match

Liverpool defender Ibrahima Konate has admitted that he’s reckoned about a send to Ligue 1 titans Paris Saint-Germain in yesteryear.

The Reds authorized the France international from RB Leipzig in the summertime of 2021 for about £36m after his unsurpassed proficiencies for the Bundesliga outfit.

Konate has had a sluggish-moving overture to spiritedness at Anfield via the Liverpool defender in and also out of the group under Jurgen Klopp.

The 24-year-archaic has started 8 matches in all gatherings this term, as nicely as 5 in the Premier League, as there are symbols he is now Klopp’s favorite solution to overture along with Virgil van Dijk.

He squandered his county in Liverpool’s start line-upwards to Joel Matip as speedily as he missed two matches previously in the period yet he has now regained his county under Klopp.

The Paris-birthed defender is subsided to Liverpool till the summertime of 2026 and also came via the Paris FC academy in yesteryear shuttling the solution to Sochaux, that marketed him to Leipzig in 2017.

And also, in a chat via Canal Football Nightclub, Konate has opened upwards the door to wrapping up upwards via an additional Paris-based bar, Paris Saint-Germain, in the futur.

Konate annunciated: “PSG today, they hired players that receive along nicely and also that play in the nationwide group. For Parisian adherents, it gains them pleased because they have their very own Parisians in their group. This is what they have been wanting for years. If I browse through myself at PSG? Yet no, to specify no would be to lie to you.”

Singularly, Konate added: “Yet to tell you that I’m envisioning it [moving to PSG] as a impulse at the minute, not at all.”

Not every person has been astonished by Konate’s proficiencies offered that he immigrated at Liverpool via previous Scotland international Craig Burley seminal of his verdict-shuttling.

ESPN pundit Burley annunciated in October: “Konate and also Matip, at times – specifically Matip, that has been there longer – have had some truly extensive spells yet I think they are now both inexplicable in their volitions.

“If you attractiveness at [Virgil] Van Dijk’s coworker and also you attractiveness at the miscellaneous other huge challengers, I don’t think Konate or Matip receive proper into any of those miscellaneous other groups at centre-back.

“Perhaps you can snatch Tottenham out of the occasion via [Micky] Van de Ven and also [Cristian] Romero. Yet if you attractiveness at Arsenal, you aren’t changing Matip and also Konate for Gabriel or [William] Saliba. You’re not changing at Guy Municipal county.”

Liverpool Ibrahima Konate

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