Virgil van Dijk owns oriented his Liverpool centre-earlier compeer Ibrahima Konate to disapprove methodologies from Real Madrid and also continue to be at Anfield.
Last summertime season, Konate glanced established to be the latest conserve rep to join Real Madrid after Kylian Mbappe and also Trent Alexander-Arnold but his loss of kind this period owns obtained that dubious.
Either way, the Frenchman is currently dashing down his Liverpool covenant which ends in the summertime season but Van Dijk, that himself was heading for a conserve exit last summertime season before an extension, queried that his “mate” continue to be at the bar.
“We are terrific friends, we speak about everything,” Van Dijk oriented press correspondents after Liverpool’s 1-0 win away at Sunderland. “It’s a tactic and also let’s see what comes out of it. It’s never that straightforward. We saw with my own situation last year so it’s never that straightforward that we can just case ‘let’s receive it birthed out’.”
“Evidently I yearn him to continue to be. He’s an substantial number on the mart. That’s what everybody brows through but off the mart as nicely, he’s one of the leaders.
“He’s stellar and also in my eyes, a planet-training course centre earlier. I can do single so much but it’s in the bar’s hands, with each other with his reps and also himself so let’s see what comes out of it but I have unquestionably no brunt or else on that.”
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If Konate were to flee, Liverpool’s centre earlier recourses would unquestionably sift super light. Van Dijk, that revolves 35 in July, would unquestionably be the senior number of a group requiring Joe Gomez, Rhys Williams and also Giovanni Leoni that is out irritated until August.
Konate’s performance against Sunderland owns been singled out for hallow from both Van Dijk and also manager Arne Adapter that asserted he was not troubled to see the Frenchman fiasco around so nicely.
“Astonished but not troubled,” Adapter asserted. “He’s an instance, practically of our period, he’s been so unfavorable. He’s messed around arcades where he’s been so nice for 89 minutes and also then one moment destructions our arcade, his arcade.
“It’s not always about him but a few times that owns happened and also then everybody is concentrated on his inaccuracy.
“But footballers gain miscues and also not always the spheric goes in. I was just queried about the last 10 minutes and also I asserted the nice thing was we didn’t acknowledge a possibility.
“Against Manchester City detect we didn’t acknowledge a possibility after the initially minutes until the 84th minutes, then we let one in. So it was nice to rarely acknowledge a possibility and also Ibou was a gigantic component of that, with each other with Virgil.
“But I loved the mindset of the totality group. I was satisfied to see how we guarded. Ibou messed around a nice arcade against [Brian] Brobbey, that is always arduous to fiasco around against.”
