Chelsea are rumored to be making a surprise move for Liverpool defender Ibrahima Konate.<\/strong><\/p>\n The 26-year-old is out of contract at the end of this season but has not signed a contract extension with the Premier League champions. Naturally, he has multiple clubs involved.<\/p>\n Former Premier League scout Mick Brown said Chelsea wanted to sign the player but never gave up their pursuit of the France international. They believe he has made several high-profile errors this season and cannot be trusted. It will be interesting to see whether Chelsea achieve their new goal.<\/p>\n It’s no secret that they need to improve defensively. They look mediocre at the back and won’t qualify for the Champions League with a leaky defense.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Liverpool are still hoping to agree a new deal with the defender. He has been an important player for them since he joined the club. Although he has struggled this season, he is still a quality defender and could be back to his best soon.<\/p>\n “A lot of teams are looking at Konate,” Brown told Football Insider.<\/p>\n “Chelsea were one of them, but the general feeling is that if he’s making mistakes at the back of Liverpool, they’re going to make the same mistakes.<\/p>\n “They want someone more solid and reliable and maybe some younger options as well.<\/p>\n “Konate has made too many fatal mistakes playing in a very good Liverpool team, so things could be even worse in a less solid team.<\/p>\n \u201cSo for a team like Chelsea who are trying to grow and perhaps establish themselves as title contenders, I don’t think he’s what they need.<\/p>\n \u201cIt’s unclear what that will do with Konate because we expect them to pull him out of this game, because he hasn’t benefited from anything so far this season.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n It will be interesting to see what decisions the France international makes in the coming weeks. He was now eligible to sign a pre-contract agreement with a foreign club if he wanted to move as a free agent.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chelsea are rumored to be making a surprise move for Liverpool defender Ibrahima Konate. The 26-year-old is out of contract at the end of this season but has not signed a contract extension with the Premier League champions. Naturally, he has multiple clubs involved. Former Premier League scout Mick Brown said Chelsea wanted to sign […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[40],"class_list":{"0":"post-38266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n