Liverpool did not even need Marc Guéhi to cross the € 500 million spending mark on the summer transfer window. This sum could have increased with the transfer of the English international, finally retained by Crystal Palace following the failure to recruit a replacement. Everything was completed for the 25 -year -old central defender, with an agreement on the contours of a contract with the Reds, before the copped deal definitively.
However, this can be considered as time saved by Liverpool, since Guéhi will arrive at the end of the contract at the end of this season. All you have to do is wait, something that the Reds seem willing to do rather than signing a check to recruit it in January. As reported by Daily TelegraphCrystal Palace agitates the threat of various and varied interests to push Liverpool to buy it in January. Except injury or sports disaster, this will not be the case.
Konaté will have to decide
Because the Mersey club retained as a precaution Joe Gomez, and has kept Ibrahima Konaté despite the vagaries linked to its contractual situation. Like Guéhi, the Frenchman arrives at the end of the contract next June, and the Real Madrid threat is real. Discussions still exist with Liverpool for a contract extension, but the Guéhi case could have an impact on the future of the tricolor international.
He has already gone on the verge of seeing him disembark this summer, which would have constituted a sacred competition, unwelcome a few months from the 2026 World Cup. Imagine landing next summer will also be taken into account, especially since Van Dijk has extended until 2027 and always seems untouchable. This is not necessarily the case with Konaté, an author of the start of the average season with the Reds. However, Liverpool's desire remains to keep French, and also to prepare the future without Van Dijk.
