Baseline81 wrote:stormi wrote:> Different ownership
> The cost of a generational midfielder, world cup winner, world cup YPOTT, UCL star at 21
> A fee that was inflated by your stupid, dumb and idiotic club - desperately bidding. Only to get rejected anyways.
Stop spamming in my thread. Last warning before words turn to war.
Love how you try and justify this. Fact is your club has done this repeatedly, regardless of the ownership or reasoning.
By the way, a quick Google search yielded this:
Brighton & Hove Albion are looking for £100million ($128m) from Chelsea if they are to land Moises Caicedo this summer.
There has been contact between the clubs at executive level and Chelsea have registered their interest in signing the Ecuador midfielder, although figures haven’t yet been discussed.
Brighton regard Declan Rice’s potential departure from West Ham United to Arsenal as a benchmark for Caicedo’s value and believe Caicedo is at least as good, if not better, than Rice.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/4615730/2023/06/16/moises-caicedo-chelsea-brighton-transfer/#:~:text=Brighton%20%26%20Hove%20Albion%20are%20looking,haven't%20yet%20been%20discussed.And because your club upset Brighton, hoping Caicedo's shenanigans (failing to report to training) would reduce the fee, Chelsea ended up paying more in the end.
Nope, that isn't the context.
Brighton tried to wring us for Colwill in the deal whomst we had loaned out to them that season under RDZ, the most promising U21 CB in the league at that point. They never had an intention of doing an honest deal. They tried to unsettle Colwill, as did Liverpool and hoped for him to not extend his contract.
When he rejected the idea of going to both Brighton & Liverpool (what's new) and extended, Brighton shifted negotiations again. Constantly stalling and working and changing terms on the fly. A wild goose chase.
And then comes Liverpool at the 11th hour, and with a PL record bid. Alarm bells.
We hadn't heard about Liverpool's involvement in the Caicedo deal until the bid was accepted, which was mid August mind you. Liverpool were strongly linked to Manu Kone, K Thuram, Romeo Lavia that summer. Both the world & Moises Caicedo were only notified of Liverpool’s interest the day the bid went in, that means Liverpool purposely went to Brighton first, without going to Caicedo.
Brighton's plan was to completely blind side Chelsea out of spite regarding Levi Colwill, and Liverpool hierarchy assumed once the deal had been agreed Caicedo would auto-join which is why Ornstein reported personal terms as a “formality”.
Little did they know that Moises Caicedo had the heart of a lion and wasn't interested in your shady backdoor games.
My engine, my rock, my inspiration. Sir Moises Caicedo.

And for good measure to put you in your place we took Lavia as well.