{"id":1211955,"date":"2021-07-09T15:15:47","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T14:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/?p=1211955"},"modified":"2021-07-09T12:40:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T11:40:24","slug":"liverpool-ibrahima-konate-injury-history","status":"publish","type":"features","link":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/features\/liverpool-ibrahima-konate-injury-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Ibrahima Konate: How worrisome is new Liverpool signing&#8217;s injury history?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Liverpool&#8217;s first signing of the summer is highly-regarded centre-back Ibrahima Konate, but how worrisome is his injury history?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jurgen Klopp&#8217;s side secured the French defender on a long-term contract after agreeing to pay his \u00a336m release clause to RB Leipzig. However, the player has a checkered injury history and, as everyone knows, Liverpool have already had to deal with their fair share of fitness problems over the past year.<\/p>\n<p>In the above video, I analysed Konate&#8217;s injury history to determine just how worrisome that track record is.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/3cbPerformance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr Rajpal Brar<\/a>, DPT, is a physiotherapist, movement expert, fitness trainer, and mindfulness coach. He runs the LA-based wellness and athletic development\/performance clinic<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.3cbperformance.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3CB Performance<\/a>, and you can subscribe to his Youtube channel (which posts analyses of Lionel Messi and more) by going<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCTWTrHvBDXT4PFiZI6XV95w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/en\/go\/bet365?q=gb-all-con-wof-s-spo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imstore.bet365affiliates.com\/?AffiliateCode=365_00985936&amp;CID=196&amp;DID=120&amp;TID=1&amp;PID=149&amp;LNG=1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool&#8217;s first signing of the summer is highly-regarded centre-back Ibrahima Konate, but how worrisome is his injury history? Jurgen Klopp&#8217;s side secured the French defender on a long-term contract after agreeing to pay his \u00a336m release clause to RB Leipzig. However, the player has a checkered injury history and, as everyone knows, Liverpool have already&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":374,"featured_media":1211979,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_focuskw":"","_yoast_wpseo_title":"","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"Liverpool's first signing of the summer is highly-regarded centre-back Ibrahima Konate, but how worrisome is his injury history?","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"features-category":[],"squawka-category":[],"class_list":["post-1211955","features","type-features","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"external_featured_image_url":"","hide_featured_image_pattern":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ibrahima Konate: How worrisome is new Liverpool signing&#039;s injury history? | Squawka | EN<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Liverpool&#039;s first signing of the summer is highly-regarded centre-back Ibrahima Konate, but how worrisome is his injury history?\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/features\/liverpool-ibrahima-konate-injury-history\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ibrahima Konate: How worrisome is new Liverpool signing&#039;s injury history?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Liverpool&#039;s first signing of the summer is highly-regarded centre-back Ibrahima Konate, but how worrisome is his injury history?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/features\/liverpool-ibrahima-konate-injury-history\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Squawka | EN\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SquawkaFootballNews\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2021\/07\/09122912\/1211955_1211955_ibrahima-konate-liverpool-injury-worries.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@squawka\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/features\/liverpool-ibrahima-konate-injury-history\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/features\/liverpool-ibrahima-konate-injury-history\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Dr Rajpal Brar\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/d56a58d97df2f44258851a1503c3cc64\"},\"headline\":\"Ibrahima Konate: How worrisome is new Liverpool signing&#8217;s injury history?\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-07-09T14:15:47+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/features\/liverpool-ibrahima-konate-injury-history\/\"},\"wordCount\":146,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/features\/liverpool-ibrahima-konate-injury-history\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2021\/07\/09122912\/1211955_1211955_ibrahima-konate-liverpool-injury-worries.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Features\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/features\/liverpool-ibrahima-konate-injury-history\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/features\/liverpool-ibrahima-konate-injury-history\/\",\"name\":\"Ibrahima Konate: How worrisome is new Liverpool signing's injury history? 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