{"id":6195,"date":"2026-05-29T16:49:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T16:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=6195"},"modified":"2026-05-29T16:49:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T16:49:18","slug":"we-should-be-all-over-this-might-as-well-just-use-disasi-fans-debate-whether-chelsea-should-make-free-transfer-swoop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=6195","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We Should Be All Over This&#8217; &#8216;Might As Well Just Use Disasi&#8217; Fans Debate Whether Chelsea Should Make Free Transfer Swoop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><strong>Chelsea are one of three teams who could try to sign Liverpool centre-back Ibrahima Konate on a free transfer, according to reports in the French media.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Team<\/em> claim that the Blues, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich are all weighing up moves for the France international.<\/p>\n<p>Konate has failed to agree a new contract with Liverpool, and he will leave Anfield on June 30th as things stand.<\/p>\n<p>Some Chelsea supporters on X believe recruiting the 27-year-old on a free is a no-brainer, but others have their doubts about his defensive capabilities:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We should be all over this, injury prone or not it\u2019s a free transfer there\u2019s virtually zero risk<\/p>\n<div class=\"sra_unit\"><link rel=\"stylesheet\" id=\"block-sra\" href=\"https:\/\/chelseanews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/snack-related-articles\/dist\/css\/snack-related.min.css?230424-120159\" type=\"text\/css\" media=\"all\"\/>\n<aside class=\"sra-group sra-related-list\">\n<h2 class=\"sra-group-head\">Most Read on Chelsea News<\/h2>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Aydin2oo (@Iagree42529957) May 28, 2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">his performance has been bang average this season .<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 marwan (@MarwanAlAmoodi) May 28, 2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Its unfortunate but I don&#8217;t see us doing this lol<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lord &#x1f1f3;&#x1f1ec; (@MobyChe) May 28, 2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cowil and Konate partnership won&#8217;t be a bad idea.<br \/>But will Chelsea able to meet his demand?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sparrow Motive (@SediMotive) May 28, 2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">He\u2019s horrendous on the ball. Might as well just use Disasi if we\u2019re going in this direction.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Justin Flowers (@juttyflowers7) May 29, 2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bring asap<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CFC OBEY\u00ae&#xfe0f; (@_kobbyphocus) May 28, 2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I don\u2019t want him.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Debbie &#x1f499; (@DebsSZN) May 28, 2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>Alonso wants a centre-half<\/h2>\n<p>New manager Xabi Alonso has made it one of his <strong>top priorities<\/strong> to reinforce the middle of defence, and the availability of a player like Konate will be tempting.<\/p>\n<p>During his time at Anfield, the Frenchman has won the Premier League title, the FA Cup, two Carabao Cups and the Community Shield.<\/p>\n<p>Konate\u2019s form has, though, dipped alarmingly this season, and misgivings about his performances could influence whether the Blues make a move for him.<\/p>\n<h2>Chelsea will struggle to meet his wage demands<\/h2>\n<p><smartframe-embed customer-id=\"1ffbae35d432d0d71911ca2a0b209fbb\" v=\"f216f6d5d0b6ef819f6e02bf8357cefd\" image-id=\"prsiYZzlucvC\" theme=\"iy-theme\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; aspect-ratio: 1.4997217584863662; max-width: 2695px;\"\/><!-- https:\/\/smartframe.io\/embedding-support --><br \/>Considering Liverpool generally offer bigger salaries than the London club, you do have to wonder whether he would accept any contract that Alonso\u2019s team put on the table.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, captain Reece James is the joint-highest earner in the first-team squad at \u00a3200,000 a week, and he even agreed to a pay cut in his last contract extension.<\/p>\n<p>Konate is likely to demand considerably more than that, especially now that he is set to become a free agent. He will receive offers from a whole host of different clubs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more about the Chelsea First Team Squad for 2025\/26 here<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea are one of three teams who could try to sign Liverpool centre-back Ibrahima Konate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}