Fabrizio Romano shares all-important UPDATE on Ibrahima Konate talks

Liverpool have been deep in talks with Ibrahima Konate over a new contract and Fabrizio Romano has dropped the latest.

Ibrahima Konate is entering the final year of his Liverpool contract this summer. It’s a situation the club are all too familiar with, of course.

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The Reds needed to strike deals with three of their most important players this season. Mo Salah, Virgil van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold’s contracts were all set to expire in June 2025 and they were actually all able to negotiate with other clubs from January 1st.

Two of them re-signed, however. Salah and Van Dijk will stay at Anfield for at least the next two years, with both deals announced in April.

Alexander-Arnold is off, though. He’ll almost certainly join Real Madrid once his contract expires - maybe even before then.

Konate has a chance to do something similar. His deal runs through June 2026 and if Liverpool don’t get a new one signed, they’ll have to either lose him for free or sell this summer.

So how are those talks going?

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Romano on Konate

Fabrizio Romano posted on Instagram on Tuesday with an update on Ibrahima Konate’s contract talks. Or lack thereof.

In a post actually about Real Madrid’s options at centre-back this summer, Romano makes it clear that they’re interested in the Frenchman. He also makes it clear that talks with Liverpool are not progressing right now - a very worrying sign.

The Reds are running out of time, with the pressure increasing exponentially this summer. Liverpool must come to a decision on Konate, after all, if they’re to get any value for him.

That means either finding a way through the impasse to continue talks or deciding there’s no way through and then selling. We just can’t go through another season with a major contract doubt that could result in losing a highly valuable player for absolutely nothing.

But that’s where things are currently heading. It’s a bad situation and one we believe Paris Saint-Germain intend to take advantage of.

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So let’s see what happens. As things stand, Romano’s update here is about as bad as it could be - a deadlock that moves Liverpool closer to the nightmare scenario.