£43.5m player has now rejected three different contract offers from Liverpool

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Liverpool have undergone plenty of change already this season.

Although most expected some changes to occur, nobody could have anticipated that the Reds would spend over £400million on new signings.

Indeed, a lot of this expenditure was offset by the number of sales they made throughout the summer transfer window, but the fact that their net spend was still over £200million is shocking.

However, it’s not only transfers in and out of Anfield that Liverpool have had to find a solution to this season.

Ibrahima Konate has now rejected three contract offers from Liverpool

Seeing as though Ibrahima Konate was one of the Premier League’s best centre-backs last season, it isn’t all that surprising to see Liverpool wanting to extend his stay.

The Frenchman’s contract is set to run out at the end of the 2025-26 season, and even though his first few performances for Liverpool were below par, he seems to have picked things up while away with France on international duty.

Indeed, his contract situation is likely weighing heavily on his head, but a new report from Spanish outlet Marca has outlined how hard Liverpool are actually trying to get him to extend his stay.

The report outlines that Liverpool have offered to extend Konate’s stay ‘up to three times’ already.

And, even though the Reds have thought their offers were more than fair, Konate’s answer has ‘always been the same’ with the Frenchman sticking by his ‘refusal to expand the bond’ between the two.

Liverpool may have to look at selling Ibrahima Konate in January

At the start of the summer transfer window, Liverpool rated Konate at around £43.5million, with anything below that being flat-out rejected.

Indeed, throughout the window, there were a couple of murmurs of Real Madrid making an offer, but in the end, Xabi Alonso decided that he was happy with his team for now.

This hasn’t, however, stopped him from being linked with a free transfer to the Bernabeu next summer, with Los Blancos eyeing up a free transfer for the Frenchman.

Indeed, he’d likely get far more money if he made the switch to Madrid, but with the quality of players that Liverpool have brought in this summer, it’s hard to see how he’d find better teammates to play alongside than the ones he currently has.

At the moment, it’s anyone’s guess what could happen, but for now, it certainly feels like Konate is likely to be on his way out of Anfield by the end of the campaign.