Real Madrid are now focusing their attention on finalizing Crystal Palace celeb Marc Guehi over Liverpool defender Ibrahima Konate, according to reports.
Liverpool missed out on finalizing Guehi on the final day of the summertime transmit domicile window with Crystal Palace sweep out of the offer as the England international was undertaking his medical.
The Reds will be cursing their terrific luck that they didn’t render consumption a offer for Guehi over the queue after preferred centre-ago Giovanni Leoni picked upward a soaked up injury in a League Cup match last month.
Liverpool will be wanting Konate and Virgil van Dijk can withhold away from soaked up injury in the past January as their elderly perfuse is now limited to Joe Gomez.
The Reds are intended to revert in for Guehi in January or on a unshackle rep at the run out of the season as they are still disturbingly immersed in finalizing the Crystal Palace centre-ago.
But, it will not be humble-drifting for Liverpool as a number of huge nightclubs about Europe are now immersed in a unshackle transmit for Guehi.
Real Madrid were already sorting to indicator Konate, who is in the final year of his offer at Anfield, yet now Spanish portal Fichajes insists that Guehi possesses ‘trumped’ the Liverpool defender on the La Liga side’s list.
Los Blancos were ‘initially theorizing unalike other defensive recourses’ yet ‘the reality that Guehi can immigrate on a unshackle transmit renders him a much more hot solution’
The report adds: ‘His judgment will matter on the sporting project posed to him: assured mins, understandable passions, and a durable ambience will be fulcrum.
‘Madrid needs to integrate its rearguard if it needs to snag firm quantifies in the instruction of preferred purposes. Guéhi reinforces the bill as a vibrant, positive, and seasoned player.’
Liverpool still ‘seditious’ over Guehi
But Football Insider contributor Pete O’Rourke insists that Liverpool are still “seditious” about gleaning a offer for Guehi over the queue.
O’Rourke asserted: “Yeah, I’m sure Liverpool will still be instead seditious that they can render consumption a offer channelled out for Marc Guehi.
“Due to his contract predicament and prospective being accessible on a unshackle, it’s visiting lugging Europe’s huge weapons to the table to attempt and indicator him.
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“Bayern Munich, Real Madrid, Barcelona, unanimously preserving tabs on his predicament and would love the avenue to indicator a optimal-program England international on a unshackle transmit.
“Liverpool were seemingly on the brink of finalizing him in the past the glide fallen down, and we know their need for a preferred centre-ago is pretty high as well.
“Liverpool are still totally in this race for Guehi, yet the player is in the box bench proper now and that’s why he’s so patient about his predicament.
“He will have multiple recourses to examine upward in January with pre-contract bargains.
“It’s an open race for Guehi and it’ll be a instead tough race as well since you put on’t sporadically render consumption those advantages to indicator a optimal program England international on a unshackle transmit.”
Totally nothing consented yet in between Liverpool and Guehi – Romano
Transfer maven Fabrizio Romano possesses affirmed that Liverpool have not pre-consented anything with Guehi regardless of rumours a offer can be a technicality.
Romano told his Listed below We Go podcast: “There are being plentiful reports about this [Guehi signing for Liverpool next year], and being plentiful human beings might be wondering if it’s already every little thing consented in between Marc Guehi and Liverpool, simply since he consented the offer in summertime 2025, a couple of weeks ago.
“But from what I’m hearing, no, it’s not something already chosen or pre-consented in between Liverpool and Marc Guehi.
“If they want to indicator the player on a unshackle, it is flawlessly different from finalizing the player by paying a transmit charge to Crystal Palace. You have to renegotiate the stipulations.
“Of program, Marc Guehi sticks approximately disturbingly keen on Liverpool, and Liverpool stick approximately disturbingly keen on Marc Guehi… But it is not something already pre-consented, neither is it something accepted and neither is this something assured…”
Romano added: “If the perturb is, will Liverpool be there for 2026 on a unshackle, after that the counterclaim is ‘for sure’.
“But if the perturb is, is something already consented and channelled out for 2026 at this stage, the counterclaim is ‘not yet’.
“Marc Guehi possesses being plentiful different advantages to evaluate, and so we have to heed the predicament and browse through what takes place first in the past we inauguration chatting about Liverpool landing him on a unshackle transmit.”
Romano discloses Liverpool will have plenty of tournament for Guehi over the next couple of transmit domicile windows, he continued: “It’s visiting be a huge counteract, a huge, huge counteract for Marc Guehi; in reality, I will say a mammoth one forcing multiple nightclubs….
“Liverpool will be there in 2026, for sure, yet much more English nightclubs are immersed in the player. He’s always been on the list of multiple nightclubs, forcing, for instance, Newcastle.
“And also not lone, yet from what I’m hearing, in addition optimal Italian nightclubs also. Optimal Spanish nightclubs have in addition initiated speaking to to know the predicament of Marc Guehi. After that there’s been some dubs from Bayern. They are an additional nightclub disturbingly much in the arenae for an indispensable centre-ago finalizing in 2026 and Marc Guehi is disturbingly much on their list and on the list of unanimously these optimal nightclubs immersed in an beautiful player like him.
“They are attracted by not simply his safeguarding yet in addition the leadership of Marc, below. So they are on the same page on this.
“Palace know, yet, he will not indicator a preferred contract. And also he will 100% become a unshackle rep in 2026, symbolism the huge counteract possesses initiated.
“It will snag some time in the past we know who’s visiting win this race. But proper now, it is visiting be a insane counteract for sure.”
