Part of me wants Boehly to splash the cash and win the bid for Caicedo, buy Lavia AND Kudus.

But a better part of me wants to be rational. Chelsea has to come to an end with all the overbidding.

Many said Chelsea should have just give 100m from the start but whose to know if Liverpool has always been in the background and in contact with Brighton after Macalister sale, that they will ready to counteroffer with a higher bid for Caicedo, using Lavia as a smokescreen that they cannot afford Caicedo. Liverpool also offloaded a number of midfielders to Saudi, they are thin, desperate and Caicedo + Macalister combi makes sense for the premium price for instant chemistry.

Just that Chelsea really played it late until now that the season is about to start and Liverpool cannot wait anymore and shown themselves from the shadows.

Either way, I am okay if Chelsea matches Liverpool's current bid and let Caicedo choose but I am also okay if we walk away and let Liverpool take the cake at 110m.

Caicedo at most is only worth 70-80m. Fans are still too used to Roman empire days where we had oil money being pumped out from the ground to splash.

100m is too much for a one season wonder. Imagine we win the bid from the start by offering 100m as requested, I am sure Brighton will come up with some crap and argue with our payment structure. And imagine if 100m Caicedo underperforms like Potter and Cucu. Fooled me once, shame on you. Fooled me twice, shame on me. Fooled me thrice? We might as well be labelled as Brighton's blue b**** because we enjoyed being f by them AT the ridiculous prices.

Just walk away. 100m for a 21 years old who so far performed well for a season is already ridiculous. There maybe better findings at better less inflated prices. Get Lavia and Kudus in now. Now we have spare cash to get another striker (and maybe another GK)

One thing I hope the management learn is not to waste time twerking for so long if the price is beyond what we value the player.

This post has been edited by Lahaha: Aug 11 2023, 12:51 PM

British record fee wor, I think Liverpool will come out with this bid even if Chelsea arrived at 100m pounds earlier because Brighton are greedy seagulls.

Time to look away and bag Lavia and Kudus, unless we have tiny itsy bitsy hope that Caicedo says no and insist for Chelsea (but nowadays, no such drama la).

Wow, TT bags Kane for 100m euro. Wonder if we offered 110m euro, would that botak accepted it?

This post has been edited by Lahaha: Aug 11 2023, 03:34 PM

Fans be like why don't want to spend another 5-10m more?
When you value a player like Caicedo at best, 60-70m......by bidding 90m, you're already stretching and overpaying by 20-30m. That "just another 5-10m" is stretching it to overpaying by 30-40m. Overpay is one thing. To overpay to Brighton, lagi cannot accept. Maybe thats why Liverpool manage to get World Cup winning Macalister so cheap, because they were always going to come for Caicedo or at least going to help Brighton to push the price up. I keep finding it strange why Brighton sold Macalister so cheaply, tak masuk akal.

Cannot imagine the stress and pressure to perform at 21 yo as the British record transfer. Don't get me wrong, I like him but not that price.
Remember the feeling we had when Nico Jackson surprised us (considering his price) and how Lukaku/Morata disappointed us.

I hope we don't try to outbid Liverpool and use that money for Lavia, Kudus and Olise. Or Amrabat?




Jurgen Klopp on Man Utd signing Pogba for €100m in 2016:
"The day that this is football, then I'm not in a job anymore.
"Other clubs can spend more money and collect top players. I want to do it differently. I would even do it differently if I had that money."
Today, Klopp has signed Caicedo for £110m (€127m).

Welcome Jurgen.

This post has been edited by Lahaha: Aug 11 2023, 04:03 PM

Yes, I believe so too. If Southampton taken up our offer, then I think we won't compete fiercely with Liverpool who will win easily at 100m.
Maybe Liverpool already contacted Brighton that they are ready to +10m to whatever is Chelsea's final offer. Brighton has nothing to lose by informing Liverpool about our final offer. Auctions are like that.

I believe we weren't expecting a bidding war hence we took our time, especially when some of our rival clubs already done their big purchases. Arsenal with Rice, Man Utd with fake Haaland, Mount, Onana, Man City with Gvardiol (and they don't need a DM), Livarpool with Szobo and we seldom see them doing bidding war.

Good lesson for our management team about managing an EPL team and our transfer market, could be a very costly one.

Now they are going all out because maruah tercabar.

Ps. I rather we focus our 110m elsewhere at this stage because I don't want to give Brighton any more money.

If we are in the market for only one player, then maybe can do it straight up but Brighton is never going to make it easy for us because we will try to structure instalments. And Chelsea still looking to do more deals.

Also, you made it sound as though if Chelsea bid 100m, Liverpool won't join the bidding war? And Brighton will just accept it without trying to start a bidding war? It is not like 100m was the release clause.
Brighton never honours their words. I don't know about agreement that Brighton said to Caicedo that they will let him go if an 80m bid comes in.

Let's see, it was reported publicly that Brighton said they will take the highest offer by Thursday midnight. If suddenly they accept Chelsea's higher bid, there you have it, they are just bloody greedy seagulls and the results would have been the same, a massacre bidding war beyond 100m

Liverpool have been relatively quiet and lukewarm with Lavia deal, probably waiting to attack at this moment.

For once I hope Brighton is true to their words, deal close and done with Liverpool. Then we move on and focus elsewhere.


This post has been edited by Lahaha: Aug 11 2023, 06:50 PM

UPDATE CAICEDO > Chelsea
BREAKING! Chelsea have this morning presented an improved package to Moises Caicedo, and have contacted Brighton about new terms per Chris Williams
Breaking: Tyler Adams's move to #Chelsea isn’t complete yet. There could be a possibility he may end up at Brighton if Chelsea sign Moises Caicedo per TheSecretScout
Chelsea this morning asked Moises Caicedo to wait as they explore a way of hijacking Liverpool's own hijack. Caicedo hasn't travelled for a medical yet. #LFC have a £111m deal agreed with Brighton, but CFC actively exploring options



115m for Caicedo and give Brighton a free pass to go for cheaper Lavia alternative, Tyler Adams?

This post has been edited by Lahaha: Aug 11 2023, 06:54 PM

Maruah Amurican Papa Boehly tak boleh dicabar!!
And this is the guys who are looking for investment to upgrade stadium.
Who wants to invest if the owner throw money on silly bidding wars.

What can Brighton do if Caicedo don't want to go to do his medical for Liverpool?

This post has been edited by Lahaha: Aug 11 2023, 06:57 PM

But I am surprised if Caicedo is really waiting for us. We don't have European football neither we have any Ecuadorian in our team. Or is it Brighton haven't sign off the transfer forms yet......waiting like the greedy seagulls until they get the signal that Chelsea has given up.

Salary I supposed it is similar either way. The medical that Liverpool booked for Caicedo be like "where the heck is this guy?"

Or will we get to laugh at Liverpool's medical team who is still waiting for Caicedo who went to Chelsea to do his medical?

No, not at this crazy fee. Please, let it go Boehly.

This post has been edited by Lahaha: Aug 11 2023, 07:13 PM

As much as I want us to exit this war but I also don't want to betray this man's trust in us. He wants us!

This post has been edited by Lahaha: Aug 11 2023, 07:17 PM

Boehly : Brighton, you have no other choices. Here is 50m, take it or leave it.
Chelsea fans :

100m amortized in max of 5 years. 20m a year.
Okay, skip Tyler Adams and Lavia. Use Santos as DM backup.

Okay, jalan! Bring the boy home.

Oh course this stage need the owner to come in and make immediate decisions instead of leaving the manager who has limited power to make decisions.

Hope to wake up tomorrow with news that deal agreed and medical completed

Colwill, Gallagher and Sterling was poor when starting but they warmed up later and started performing. At first Salah was bullying Colwill with experience but later on Colwill placed Salah in his pocket.
Sterling also was poor until he started his combi play with James in the later stage of 1st half. Can see he was getting tired and should have been replaced in the 60th minutes onwards.
Gallagher not good in tight and high pressure positions but made it up physically to win balls back and making perfectly timed last ditch tackles, saw at least a few of them.

Disasi's mistake and lack of awareness on Diaz's run for the first goal and he made it up with his own goal.

Damn, proper number 9 like Jackson really made a whole lot of difference, ala Harry Kane style, who is everywhere on the pitch to pull defenders out of position and to assist to build up the play.

Now Caicedo has joined us, we are really cooking.

Maybe next few years won't have much signings because we have already signed most of the youngsters that we needed.

Cheap cheap one, I think okay la. Farming for future (and for Chels-bourg).

Hopefully we don't keep going into bidding wars like Caicedo case, but he does fill up an important role for defense and to free up Enzo.

I am curious why Enzo is labeled as DM? Did he play and perform as DM previously despite how we plan to use him now as a playmaker?

Aiyo, cannot wait for the coming game to see how we perform with our 200m (or almost 300m with Lavia) midfield.

How and why Chelsea have ZERO issues with FFP!
https://youtu.be/dYktOnzx9ec

Those without accounting background might not understand but this is how is explained.
No issues with FFP for now, but it might boil over if we don't increase our revenue in the future

FFP : Chelsea’s estimated amortised spending in the past three windows under Boehly and Clearlake, using initial transfer figures reported by The Athletic, comes to £157.2 million - this significantly lower number is almost entirely offset by an accounting profit from player sales of £149.6 million over the same period! (@TheAthleticFC)

So it is estimated to be costing us 157.2m per year. This year alone, we sold 149.6m, so that old man from Liverpool got nothing on us.

Itulah. They haven't seen our final form yet.

Just imagining LFC midfield trio, Lavia, Fernandez (Enzo) and Caicedo. 2 young and fit offence destroyers and 1 creative playmaker, dayum we're cooking a "nice meal."

Pity we really don't have much games to play, no European games. Even Conference League would have been great for some youngsters to get some minutes and develop some chemistry.

They laughed when we spent 600m and fell to 12th spot and says money cannot buy success and fell out of European games.
They cried foul play when we started offloading our players to Saudi but started to keep quiet when they too sold some players to Saudi.
They tried to outbid us and thought people will choose them because they were "better prospect."
Then they will cry and moan when we spent 1b and raise to the top and say we bought our success and was because we weren't playing in Europe and had better focus.

Team rebuild is now complete in my case.


I am not really seeing Chukwuemeka's contribution at the moment. Or at least in the game against Liverpool, didn't really noticed him and his purpose on the pitch but I noticed Gallagher more (losing the ball in tight areas but also winning the ball and making perfectly timed tackles). Hope Poch sees his strength to keep him or else, other teams saw his qualities and want to bid higher price for him, like 50-60m pounds. Then our books for this year is even more in the green for FFP. Come on West Ham, we know you got money after you finally woke up from a daze and pull out of Maguire deal. I wonder if Liverpool would swallow their pride and ask for Gallagher and whether we would let him go to Pool? It would be a real slap for Gallagher as he made it very clear that he wants to stay.

Crystal Palace pissed that we activated Olise's release clause? Harlow, it is a release clause. Clever guy/agent to prevent another potential case like Caicedo.

Now only Wednesday. Never had I ever felt a week's time was so long until our next game.

You may wonder if Boehly got the crystal ball but Boehly could have been the one gaslighting and kickstarting the whole mass purchasing process. He went over there to chitchat with Saudi about something, if I remembered correctly.

Ya, they might not realised we actually sold more than 200m pounds in this window.