{"id":341639,"date":"2025-12-29T21:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T21:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/341639\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T21:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T21:24:11","slug":"no-konate-contract-breakthrough-semenyo-contradiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/341639\/","title":{"rendered":"No Konate Contract Breakthrough & Semenyo Contradiction"},"content":{"rendered":"

The start of the final week of 2025 sees Ibrahima Konate<\/a>\u2018s contract in the news, in addition to contradictory reports on Antoine Semenyo and his January transfer. <\/p>\n

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Ibrahima Konate contract latest<\/p>\n

Much like last season, Liverpool will enter the new year with players out of contract and a final decision yet to be made public.<\/p>\n

Ibrahima Konate<\/a> has had contract offers tabled but the Mail<\/a>\u2018s Lewis Steele reports that \u201cno breakthrough\u201d has been found in talks \u201cjust yet\u201d between his representatives and the club.<\/p>\n

The Frenchman can officially talk to clubs overseas from Thursday, January 1, over a summer move as a free agent, as is also the case with Marc Guehi. <\/p>\n

\"LEEDS,<\/p>\n

While his performances have not always been up to the standard expected of him this season, losing Konate on a free transfer would be far from ideal.<\/p>\n

Another contract saga beckons, or so it appears, though it would be nice to deviate from last season\u2019s drama and make any decision public as soon as possible, irrespective of its good or bad. <\/p>\n

Mixed reports on Antoine Semenyo transfer<\/p>\n

\"Bournemouth's<\/p>\n

\u2022 Antoine Semenyo\u2018s representatives were due to meet Man City<\/a> on Monday after reports that Liverpool were \u201ccontemplating a move<\/a>.\u201d That has been dismissed by some, while Steele stated<\/a> they are not to be ruled out if they receive any encouragement from the player <\/p>\n

\u2022 Mo Salah<\/a> was named on the bench for Egypt<\/a> in their final group game at AFCON as their place in the last 16 was already confirmed \u2013 he was one of 11 to drop out <\/p>\n

\u2022 Three centre-backs have been linked with Liverpool<\/a>, and they\u2019re ones we\u2019ve heard of before \u2013 one is Guehi\u2019s partner at Palace, and another is a 6\u20194\u2033 homegrown option. But are any right for Slot? <\/p>\n

\u2022 Leeds<\/a> are expected to be without key centre-back<\/a> Joe Rodon for their trip to Anfield this week after an injury over the weekend, it could force them into another system change<\/p>\n

\u2022 James McConnell<\/a> is \u201clikely\u201d to be recalled from his loan at Ajax; he has four Championship sides interested<\/a> and that includes Vitor Matos\u2019 new club<\/p>\n

STATS: Liverpool\u2019s second-half struggles<\/p>\n

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Joanna Durkan took a look at how Liverpool continue to be exposed in the second half of matches, with the help of FotMob:<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the most recent four Premier League<\/a> matches, Liverpool have conceded a combined 30 second-half shots (11 on target) compared to 20 total shots in the first half (three on target).<\/p>\n

\u201cThankfully for Liverpool, they won three of the four to help draw attention away from their continued struggles, but the average position of their four most recent league opponents is 15th.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith sterner tests on the horizon, Liverpool cannot afford to lack the courage to take the game on.\u201d<\/p>\n

READ: Slot gets another second-half warning as defensive drop-off exposed<\/a><\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the football world today<\/p>\n

\"LYON,<\/p>\n

\u2022 Cristiano Ronaldo has said retirement is not on the horizon until he at least scores 1,000 goals \u2013 he\u2019s currently on 956 \u2013 bet you\u2019re all relieved to know that\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2022 Diogo Jota<\/a>\u2018s parents accepted a special award in Diogo Jota<\/a>\u2018s honour at the Globe Soccer Awards on Sunday. It was another emotional tribute to the late forward<\/p>\n

\u2022 FIFA president Gianni Infantino has sought to dismiss the outrageous World Cup ticket prices by pointing to the \u201cabsolutely crazy\u201d ticket demand \u2013 to be that detached from reality, eh! (BBC<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Liverpool FC: On this day<\/p>\n

\"LIVERPOOL,<\/p>\n

We\u2019re going back to 2018 and the glorious day that Roberto Firmino<\/a> scored his first career hat-trick against the side he loved scored against most, Arsenal<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Jurgen Klopp<\/a>\u2018s side sent the Gunners home licking their wounds after inflicting a 5-1 defeat, with Firmino, Sadio Mane<\/a> and Mo Salah<\/a> all on the scoresheet \u2013 what a front three that was!<\/p>\n

Ainsley Maitland-Niles had actually scored first to put Arsenal<\/a> ahead in the 11th minute, but four goals in the first half to Liverpool made sure the three points were only going one way.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been too long since we\u2019ve got to enjoy an emphatic win like that!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The start of the final week of 2025 sees Ibrahima Konate\u2018s contract in the news, in addition to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,20608,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-341639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-round-up","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}