{"id":36800,"date":"2023-08-14T05:48:22","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T05:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=36800"},"modified":"2023-08-14T05:48:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T05:48:23","slug":"chelsea-agree-115m-deal-for-brighton-midfielder-moises-caicedo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/08\/14\/chelsea-agree-115m-deal-for-brighton-midfielder-moises-caicedo\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea agree \u00a3115m deal for Brighton midfielder Moises Caicedo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Chelsea are set to break the British transfer record for the second time in seven months after agreeing an \u00a3115m deal to sign the Brighton midfielder Mois\u00e9s Caicedo, who will undergo a medical on Monday before completing his long-awaited move to Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Liverpool had an offer of \u00a3111m for Caicedo accepted last Thursday but were unable to convince the player to move to Anfield. The Ecuador midfielder\u2019s preference has always been to join Chelsea, who have thrashed out a deal that will see them pay \u00a3100m plus \u00a315m in performance-related add-ons after days of frantic negotiations with Brighton, and he is set to sign an eight-year deal with an option for an extra year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brighton have added a sell-on clause and have driven a hard bargain. They were adamant that Caicedo would not be sold for under \u00a3100m and rejected several lower bids from Chelsea. Brighton have lost several players and members of staff to Chelsea in the past year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chelsea\u2019s official stance is that the transfer has not been finalised, with more than one club source stressing on Sunday night that it was not 100% done yet. The reality is that Mauricio Pochettino, who has been desperate to strengthen his midfield, is going to land his top target. Chelsea refused to give up on Caicedo and have left Liverpool disappointed after outbidding them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There could be another blow for Liverpool if Chelsea beat them to the signing of the Southampton midfielder Rom\u00e9o Lavia. Southampton remain in talks with both clubs over the sale of Lavia. Chelsea are leading the race after making a \u00a355m bid for the 19-year-old on Friday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is proving to be another whirlwind window for Chelsea\u2019s owners, Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital. They broke the British transfer record when they signed the Argentina midfielder Enzo Fern\u00e1ndez for \u00a3106.8m in January and the deal for Caicedo will bring the spending under Boehly and Clearlake to close to \u00a3900m since they bought the club last year.Quick Guide<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There will be questions over whether Chelsea will fall foul of financial fair play regulations. They have conducted a clearout since the end of last season and have raised funds by moving 12 players out so far this summer. They are loaning the goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga to Real Madrid and could sell Romelu Lukaku, Conor Gallagher, Ian Maatsen, Trevoh Chalobah, Hakim Ziyech and Callum Hudson-Odoi before the window shuts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pochettino wants further additions and Chelsea, who pulled out of a \u00a320m deal to sign the Leeds United midfielder Tyler Adams on Friday, are trying to sign the Crystal Palace winger Michael Olise. The west London club also want a goalkeeper and a striker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

J\u00fcrgen Klopp had said Chelsea managers usually get what they want as Liverpool braced themselves for the setback of missing out on Caicedo. Liverpool\u2019s manager has been desperate to sign another midfielder this summer and the flaws were evident as his side opened their campaign with an entertaining 1-1 draw with Pochettino\u2019s side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pochettino wants to strengthen his squad further before the transfer window shuts. \u201cThat\u2019s what each Chelsea manager wants and usually they get it,\u201d Klopp said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An unhappy-looking Mohamed Salah sits behind J\u00fcrgen Klopp after being substituted. Photograph: Javier Garc\u00eda\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Klopp saw Liverpool fade after a promising start, with Luis D\u00edaz\u2019s opener cancelled out by Axel Disasi scoring on his Chelsea debut. The manager played down Mohamed Salah\u2019s angry reaction to being substituted in the second half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t have a conversation yet with him,\u201d Klopp said. \u201cI don\u2019t think you have ever seen Mo leaving a pitch happily. I can\u2019t remember. That is OK. I didn\u2019t think about it, I didn\u2019t even know about it. I understand his disappointment, but I am the manager and we needed fresh legs. It was never anything to do with Mo or against him. 99% of the things we have achieved, we have achieved with him or because of him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chelsea and Liverpool highlight increasing need for Caicedo in chaotic clash<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Roy Keane was critical of Salah while analysing the game for Sky Sports. \u201cDon\u2019t sit there on the bench waving your arms about,\u201d Keane said. \u201cIt is OK to be upset but not for too long. Sit down and shut up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pochettino was pleased with Chelsea\u2019s display. \u201cWhen we arrived here on the first day we didn\u2019t want to talk about the past,\u201d he said. \u201cIn football it\u2019s about moving on. It\u2019s about the present and the future. I am so pleased because when some difficult moments appeared, the team was there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Metropolitan police\u2019s football unit reported that two men had been identified after engaging in \u201ctragedy chanting\u201d at the match. It tweeted: \u201cOne was arrested on suspicion of public order offences and the other was ejected.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chelsea are set to break the British transfer record for the second time in seven months after agreeing an \u00a3115m deal to sign the Brighton midfielder Mois\u00e9s Caicedo, who will undergo a medical on Monday before completing his long-awaited move to Stamford Bridge. Liverpool had an offer of \u00a3111m for Caicedo accepted last Thursday but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":36801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3295],"tags":[6285,4173,5522,8173,1827,5268,1561,10387,11583,169,6752,8590,305,10739,8582,7319,5247,3577,803,5892,2867,7031,2106,6286,8029,8382,197,3684,10634,404,12791,8126,4358,12309,4317,9399,10481,6831,10421,8000,11973,13256,499,421,6200,196,570,7623,12871,9271,6567,266,7333,7419,7982,6262,2178,3954,594],"class_list":["post-36800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-sport","tag-anfield","tag-argentina","tag-arms","tag-bridge","tag-brighton","tag-british","tag-callum-hudson-odoi","tag-campaign","tag-capital","tag-chelsea","tag-clearlake-capital","tag-conversation","tag-crystal-palace","tag-display","tag-ecuador","tag-fern","tag-football","tag-future","tag-goalkeeper","tag-hakim-ziyech","tag-hudson-odoi","tag-jurgen-klopp","tag-keane","tag-klopp","tag-land","tag-leeds","tag-liverpool","tag-london","tag-lost","tag-lukaku","tag-manager","tag-match","tag-mauricio-pochettino","tag-men","tag-metropolitan","tag-michael-olise","tag-midfield","tag-missing","tag-moises-caicedo","tag-negotiations","tag-one","tag-players","tag-pochettino","tag-police","tag-race","tag-real-madrid","tag-romelu-lukaku","tag-roy-keane","tag-salah","tag-sky","tag-sky-sports","tag-southampton","tag-summer","tag-the-game","tag-todd-boehly","tag-tragedy","tag-west-london","tag-will","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36802,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36800\/revisions\/36802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}