According to the Guardian, Liverpool are set to sign Konate from Liepzig for around £30 million.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/apr/23/liverpool-set-to-win-race-to-sign-ibrahima-konate-for-305m-from-rb-leipzig
New Centre back
posted on 24/4/21
Need a proper clinical striker next. That would probably have done us more good than a quality defender this season in hindsight.
posted on 24/4/21
That's really good. I imagine klopp is thinking "never again" in terms of losing all CBs. We now have:
VVD
Konate
Gomez
Kabak
Philips
Davies
All young apart from VVD. Never again should we get caught short at CB.
posted on 24/4/21
comment by welshpoolfan (U7693)
posted 18 minutes ago
comment by TheBlackCountry (U22512)
posted 1 hour, 23 minutes ago
Five months too late unfortunately.
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For this season maybe. Presumably he will be able to play in our games next season though.
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Fingers crossed.
posted on 24/4/21
comment by Got_Better (U6241)
posted 15 minutes ago
That's really good. I imagine klopp is thinking "never again" in terms of losing all CBs. We now have:
VVD
Konate
Gomez
Kabak
Philips
Davies
All young apart from VVD. Never again should we get caught short at CB.
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Phillips and Davies will be sold.
posted on 24/4/21
Mane man...oh sorry, didn't realise you had inside information they were being sold
posted on 24/4/21
comment by Got_Better (U6241)
posted 19 minutes ago
Mane man...oh sorry, didn't realise you had inside information they were being sold
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We are in April and Davies still haven't played a game.
Phillips is a slow defender and isn't good enough for our high line game which allows us to press the opposition higher.
posted on 24/4/21
comment by -RKW- (U22124)
posted 2 hours, 28 minutes ago
We’ve not conceded that many goals recently to be fair. It’s finishing chances that’s the problem.
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Yup watching them flounder about losing game after game through rank finishing is the pits.
They threw away 2 points last monday and threw away the cl v real the same way. Same old same old.
We are headed for 7th again as I see 4 teams who will play the low block and laugh at us coming up.
posted on 24/4/21
comment by The Mane Man (U19731)
posted 47 minutes ago
comment by Got_Better (U6241)
posted 15 minutes ago
That's really good. I imagine klopp is thinking "never again" in terms of losing all CBs. We now have:
VVD
Konate
Gomez
Kabak
Philips
Davies
All young apart from VVD. Never again should we get caught short at CB.
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Phillips and Davies will be sold.
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Yup plus gomez isnt great
Plus konate is only available as he is a potential crack
Oh and kabak is band average
posted on 24/4/21
Jeez u guys are a fkn happy lot....
posted on 24/4/21
comment by moreinjuredthanowen (U9641)
posted 6 hours, 20 minutes ago
comment by The Mane Man (U19731)
posted 47 minutes ago
comment by Got_Better (U6241)
posted 15 minutes ago
That's really good. I imagine klopp is thinking "never again" in terms of losing all CBs. We now have:
VVD
Konate
Gomez
Kabak
Philips
Davies
All young apart from VVD. Never again should we get caught short at CB.
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Phillips and Davies will be sold.
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Yup plus gomez isnt great
Plus konate is only available as he is a potential crack
Oh and kabak is band average
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Gomez had some bad form after his injury return but generally has been great. He didn't just become bad.
Konate is injury prone for sure but I think it's harsh to say Kabak is bang average. Henry and Bergkamp took a while to settle in the PL and show what they could do yet you want to pass judgement on a kid from a different country, playing a different system and whilst being thrusted into the team during a huge injury crisis 😅
I'd say the kids done remarkably well to adjust and improve as quickly as he has. Is he first choice material? Not at the moment but he is playing through necessity and I wouldn't write him off yet.