{"id":610247,"date":"2026-05-29T12:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T12:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/610247\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T12:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T12:03:09","slug":"transfer-news-live-konate-to-chelsea-man-utd-confirm-31m-deal-football-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/610247\/","title":{"rendered":"Transfer news LIVE: Konate to Chelsea, Man Utd confirm \u00a331m deal | Football | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite claiming just weeks ago that he was on the verge of signing a new contract, <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Konate &#039;set to leave Liverpool&#039; this summer as Reds fail to reach agreement\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2210925\/ibrahima-konate-liverpool-transfer-news\" target=\"_blank\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ibrahima Konate is set to leave Liverpool<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The French defender can depart as a free transfer this summer and follow Mohamed Salah and Andy Robertson out the door.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, after beating Everton 2-1, Konate confirmed that an agreement on a new deal was &#8220;close&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cFor sure there is a big chance I\u2019m here next season. This is what I always wanted. I\u2019m waiting to sort the contract but when everything is sorted you will have to ask (sporting director) Richard Hughes what I said to him in September, November and he\u2019s going to say something to make everyone quiet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Konate has made a U-turn and is leaving Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>He will not renew his contract and instead leave without a transfer fee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite claiming just weeks ago that he was on the verge of signing a new contract, Ibrahima Konate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[46085,220,1111,324,59,114506,708,134,1767,1577,42520,1441,2703,101,110,3620,568,207665,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-610247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-anthony-gordon","tag-arsenal","tag-arsenal-fc","tag-arsenal-transfer-news","tag-gb","tag-konate","tag-liverpool","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-liverpool-transfer-news","tag-man-utd","tag-man-utd-transfer-news","tag-manchester-united-fc","tag-rashford","tag-sports","tag-transfer-news","tag-transfer-news-live","tag-transfers","tag-transfers-live","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610247","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=610247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}