{"id":711063,"date":"2026-06-02T20:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T20:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/711063\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T20:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T20:16:14","slug":"ibrahima-konate-france-defender-in-advanced-talks-with-real-madrid-over-free-transfer-when-liverpool-contract-expires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/711063\/","title":{"rendered":"Ibrahima Konate: France defender in advanced talks with Real Madrid over free transfer when Liverpool contract expires"},"content":{"rendered":"

France defender Ibrahima Konate is in advanced talks with Real Madrid about joining the La Liga club on a free transfer.<\/p>\n

As reported by the Daily Telegraph, external<\/a>, Konate is close to agreeing terms over a move to the Bernabeu when his contract at Liverpool<\/a> expires at the end of June.<\/p>\n

Liverpool<\/a> announced on Sunday that Konate would leave the club<\/a> at the end of his current deal. <\/p>\n

The 27-year-old had previously been in discussions to extend his stay on Merseyside but those talks came to an end amid a gap between the centre-half and the club over his value and wages.<\/p>\n

Konate made 183 appearances for Liverpool<\/a> in all competitions and won the Premier League, FA Cup, and two League Cups.<\/p>\n

He originally joined Liverpool<\/a> from RB Leipzig in 2021 for \u00a335m.<\/p>\n

Konate is set to become the second player to leave Liverpool<\/a> for Real Madrid for nothing in successive summers following Trent Alexander-Arnold’s departure to Real last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France defender Ibrahima Konate is in advanced talks with Real Madrid about joining the La Liga club on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-711063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711063","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=711063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}