Crazy money for him but fair play to Brighton. I thought it might max out at around 80 million but to be fair they have stuck to their guns. Didn't expect to be Liverpool to pay it.
Moises Caicedo | Chelsea agree £115M fee | signed for Chelsea
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Either way someone is getting bantered for this deal.
It's the great thing about them being in a strong position and having made so much off transfers over the last couple of years.
Some clubs say they don't need to sell unless they get their asking price but Brighton really, genuienly don't need to sell.
Brighton probably cannot believe their luck. He’s a very very good player but feck me this is Neymar level money for a midfielder who has never had the pressure of playing for a big club. Massive massive gamble
Crazy isn't it!
If West Ham sell Paqueta it will be just as mad, if not more so...you'd never of thought West Ham were fielding a £200 million midfield duo every week in Rice and Paqueta.
Just imagine offering £100million for a Brighton player and not being able to do the deal. It's pretty nuts, fair play the Albion.
Man United for turning down the chance to get him for 5 mil.
Ha. Probably time for the authorities to look at financials.
Technically, so did Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal, City and well... everyone if you think about it
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The full quote is actually fair enough. In the end they’ve got Caicedo and he improves them immensely. The noise about the money will just be noise.
I'm excited for this new season. Liverpool, Chelsea, United all looking stronger. Arsenal and Newcastle have strengthened as well from their already solid base. City are still cnuts. Like you say, the whole money thing isn't going to matter come next April when everyone, regardless of the team they support, is having mini heart attacks just counting down the points on the table to see who makes Top 4.
110 is a huge amount and certainly softens the blow of losing him!
Caicedo wouldn't be the player he is today if he had gone to us, though.
Yeah big lesson for Chelsea here .... If you want your bid accepted it has to be high enough to meet the selling club's valuation of the player.
Can't expect every club to know this, it's the sort of know how that's hard to come by.
The concern for Liverpool is the fact that at 21 years old he is unlikely to spend the rest of his career with them. Like most South American’s that have played for Liverpool he’ll probably have a desire to play in Spain in a few years time. They’ll probably be able to recoup a lot of the 130m they’ve spent on him, though.
Again, that’s never how football works. The likelihood of him staying at Liverpool for 10 seasons is remarkably low.
Yes they were but did that translate into a higher league finish? Besting our midfield is not a particularly high barometer, or at least it certainly wasn’t in recent years.
A real lesson indeed, the lesson being if you want a player bid over twice what he’s actually worth
The reality is Liverpool have had their pants pulled down, they were rejected by their number 1 target and now are panic buying a guy who’s had 1 decent season in England.
Glad we aren't getting him. I want nowt to do with Brighton players or managers anymore.
B20 is a Liverpool fan.
We are a fair bit better in other departments.
I honestly think the price is too high for that. 111m and a sell on clause?
What happens if Madrid want him, player wants to leave but they only offer 80m?
That's not a concern. It means he's been a success.
I think this is a very fair sentiment tbh.
Brighton are so well run and managed that they perform better than the sum of their parts. It is a real possibility that players won't look quite as good elsewhere.
Nah, I think he would.
At what point does this leave the realms of good business and becomes a dick-swinging ego contest?
What did Kloop say when we bought Pogba again?
Yeah I mean Liverpool and Chelsea could have brought him too. But now look
Great player, can't believe we didn't buy him when we had the chance for cheap. £111 million is mad money but I think this guy is better than Rice, Liverpool basically nicked (no pun intended) Brighton's midfield.
He is the player he is because of playing time and likely other factors like the manager's belief in him and by playing in a properly organised team. The play time is not something he would get here.
Yeah, he'd be booed every game like Harry Maguire.
I think he would. His quality would've shined through.
Ah, my bad. Thanks.
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For Chelsea, it's always this. Offering £115M now would honestly be more embarrassing than if we just briefed we're walking away last night after being gazumped, even if we end up with Caicedo. This is crazy.
Imagine breaking the British transfer record and the player doesn't fancy joining you
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In the mud?
buying him for that amount of money would have been tacky and classless.
If Boehly pulls this off, he truly is the Gazumpinator.
I just hope whoever made the decision not to sign Caicedo for £5 million or whatever is - isn't at the club anymore. I don't care who the guilty person was, he just shouldn't be anywhere near a footballclub.
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