A year ago, Ibrahima Konaté was considered a starter with the France team after a prosperous period with Liverpool. Now, the situation has changed for the former Leipzig man. Author of a complicated start to the club season, the 26-year-old defender saw William Saliba and Dayot Upamecano overtake him in the hierarchy. A reality that is hard to accept and which the person concerned returned to this Sunday at the Téléfoot microphone:
“I had a bad experience with this. It’s football, it goes very quickly. Last year, at the same time, I could be considered an indisputable starter. Today it’s a little different. The individual and collective club form which will play a big role. If I look at the record with the Blues, a match or two put me in this situation. There is Croatia where it must be said, I was very bad. And there is Spain, we have to put it into context, there were a lot of players missing. It’s hard to take it into consideration, but everyone, the coach, the supporters, the media took it into consideration. It was this match that put me in this condition. We have to continue to work and my goal is to give the coach a headache.»
