I’m deeply saddened because you’ve been crap all season.
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I assume that he wants to sort a club soon. If he gets injured at the World Cup he could be completely screwed.
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Ibou will do much better when there is consistency at the right back position so that he knows when it’s time to stick, he will not twist instead.
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Wish him luck wherever he goes,his time here as up and down,probably not helped by a clueless head coach the last two years.
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What a lovely message to the fans.
Thank you Ibou for all you have done for Liverpool.
Wishing you best of luck in your next club and World Cup.
Y.N.W.A
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Thank you for all your efforts Ibou! You have our love and appreciation. All the best to you and your family! YNWA!
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This is a massive, massive hit for the club. In terms of winning experience, in terms of the age balance within the defensive line, and in terms of quality leaving us. There is the financial aspect too, of course.
I was hoping that he’d maybe wait and see who we’ll appoint, but obviously, his decision has already been made. I’d not be surprised to see him go to Real Madrid or another top tier club.
All the best for your further career Ibou, except when you’ll play against us. Then please, could you commit one or two little brain-farts, to help us on our way? Thanks in advance, mate!
Seriously, thank you for all the memories, Ibou. You leave us way too soon. 
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I don’t get why Alexander-Arnold is hated by the fans but Konate is getting articles on Thisisanfield about how heartbreaking is for “Ibou” to not get an Anfield farewell.
TAA wanted something new. He made that clear when he left. He’s born and raised here, won every trophy here and wanted a new challenge. You can disagree with that but its an understandable reason.
Konate just wants more money. Again, fine if that’s your reason, but don’t go crying about how sad you are because you couldn’t possibly sign for a measly £200k a week.
I don’t hate either player this all part of the game but the reaction from Liverpool fans makes no sense. And before anyone says “Trent indicated he would stay”, Konate has said for literally years now that a deal was close while having no intention of signing.
Justice for Trent.
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For me, for both players different reasons can be very similar or exactly the same.
I don’t know enough on the inside to say with Trent it was about a new challenge and with Konate it’s about more money. The little they say on it and articles can be just part of the reality.
Surely, the money aspect was also important for Trent (as it would be for everyone) and Konate might also be open for a new challenge.
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I agree. Trent being a local lad, it probably hit a nerve with many people, more so than with Konaté.
But I also agree with Zoran: the money and a potential new challenge will have played a part in the thoughts of both of them (as well as possibly be fed up with Slot’s methods, but that’s only a conjecture from me).
I don’t think Trent is ‘hated’ by the fans. There are plenty who are angry with him because he ran his contract down, costing the club something in the region of £80 million. Yes, he’s entitled to do this but the motivation is purely financial gain for him and his brother. I also lay the blame for this situation with the club, they could’ve renewed his contract three years ago. The same thing has now happened with Konate.
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That 80m figure is purely theoretical. It’s doubtful whether RM would have paid that. He wanted something different and there are few clubs, if any, that could be seen as a step up from Liverpool. His options weren’t unlimited, they were, stay with us or let the contract tun down and joinone of those three clubs.
I’d get the anger if he’d gone to City or Chelsea on a free, but it’s not as bad as it’s been made out by some.
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A big club must have made its move quickly after that. My guess is Real Madrid. We’ll see.
If Konate was available on a free, would you want Liverpool to sign him? Also, if he cost, say, 50 million pounds, would anyone here want Liverpool to sign him?
I said it a few weeks ago, the main reason why I wanted him to extend was to preserve some continuity, especially given that Van Dijk is nearing the end of his Liverpool career.
I wish him the best as long as it doesn’t affect Liverpool negatively in any way. Overall, he was a decent signing for us, he deserved the trophies he won with us even if his time here was inconsistent for different reasons. We’ll see whether he turns into an injury-resistant centre back monster at his new club.
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As always it depends on what the alternative is.
If nobody else is coming in, sure.
If signing him would stop buying the next Van Dijk, absolutely not.
Fair point.
Plus Trent was a youth team product so we never had to spend any transfer fee on him, yet at least got £10M for an extra week or two.
For Ibou we did pay a fee but didn’t get a transfer fee in turn. Well, that’s probably more on the transfer people.
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Objectivelly, when a player of his importance leaves on a free, it cannot make me like “yeah, whatever”. That is more negative than positive. We did leave the CB area aside for a little while and had some bad luck last summer so it made the position not competitive enough.
He’s not elite, he’s not bad and he’s surely better than just decent. For a good few years he formed a very good partnership at Liverpool. Consistency, well… yes, there was an issue with it to a certain extent, but he wouldn’t even achieve what he did here if he was that inconsistent.
With contracts, there are many factors that come into it. You need two sides to agree and it’s easy now to look back and said this or that side should’ve done this or that.
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I feel that Ibou wanted the cushion of a good hefty contract because with our newly signed youngsters coming over the horizon, he knew his days as an automatic choice were coming to an end.
He has been awful this season for us when we needed him to shine. Been here a while which puts him on the old guard contingent, and yet he failed to inspire confidence in those around him. This season alone, with no guarantee he would ever be the defender we are crying out for, makes me slightly uninterested whether he stays or goes…
Thanks for everything to date and wish you well for the future
I keep thinking about the away game at Leeds. 2-0 up, Konate’s head goes and he gives away a penalty. A completely needless challenge, which completely changed the game, resulting in two valuable points dropped.
I wish him well for the future but it’s time for him to be replaced.
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Seriously the head coach is the last person Ibou has the right to pissed off at.
He’d lost his place to Quansah at the end of Klopp’s last season and Slot put him back in at the first opportunity - 45mins into his first game. He then left him in place for two years, even while his form crumbled and he looked like he was trying to play football wearing clown shoes.
Slot also gets pelters for jettisoning Quansah - who would have been Konate’s direct rival for a starting place. And I think had Quansah stayed, Ibou would have conclusively lost that battle.
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