{"id":597572,"date":"2026-04-10T09:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T09:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/597572\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T09:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T09:10:08","slug":"liverpool-is-set-to-end-the-speculation-and-finalise-a-new-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/597572\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool is set to end the speculation and finalise a new deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool are close to securing a contract extension for Ibrahima Konat\u00e9. Fabrizio Romano confirms that although the deal is not yet signed, talks are progressing smoothly.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old centre-back is currently under contract until the summer of 2026, and while he could have departed on a free transfer, that uncertainty now appears set to end.\n<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool paid a substantial \u20ac40 million to RB Leipzig for the Frenchman in the summer of 2021.\n<\/p>\n<p>Although he did not feature regularly under J\u00fcrgen Klopp at first, Konat\u00e9 has since developed into a key centre-back alongside Virgil van Dijk.\n<\/p>\n<p>In total, the centre-back has featured in 175 matches for the Reds, scoring seven goals, and has already made 43 appearances this season.\n<\/p>\n<p>Real Madrid had long been linked with the centre-back and reportedly tabled several contract offers, all of which were rebuffed.\n<\/p>\n<p>In November the Spaniards stepped away, enabling Liverpool to press ahead with its own negotiations. The club currently sitting fifth in the Premier League now expects a deal to be finalised very soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool are close to securing a contract extension for Ibrahima Konat\u00e9. Fabrizio Romano confirms that although the deal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,291595,1613,22455,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-597572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-i-konate","12":"tag-liverpool","13":"tag-real-madrid","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}