Pizy

The embarrassment isn’t just that we lost out at the end. It’s that we FINALLY bid what Brighton wanted once it was too late. He’d be a Chelsea player weeks ago before preseason even started if we bid this £100m. If reports are to be believed, this is now the FOURTH time since the Boehly era started that we’ve made a massive bid for a player once it’s too late. -We bid £50m for Lavia right at the deadline last summer. -We bid for Gabriel Jesus once he had already given his word to Arteta. -I believe it was Ornstein who said we put in a last second bid for Mac Allister after he had already agreed with Liverpool. -And now Caicedo The only one of these last second scrambles we’ve won is Mudryk. And that was only because he wasn’t of utmost importance for Arse but more of a luxury signing.

We now have no top quality DM and no attacker who you’re 100% confident will score 15 league goals. Two things every team near the top of the table now has.

True, they’re very weak defensively at both fullback positions. And unless they sign a new LCB they’re fucked if VVD gets injured again. Completely forgot about Gakpo. By all accounts he’s ready to explode this season now that he’s settled.

Lavia would be great as a long term development player who we gradually ease into the starting XI. He’s not ready to start every week as the sole DM in a side gunning for a UCL spot yet.

Caicedo, Mac Allister, Szobo and now also TAA in his new role in midfield with Salah, Diaz, Jota, and Darwin in front of them. They’ve now got one HELL of a team. We are nowhere near them now. Or City, Arse, and even United. Then there’s Newcastle and Villa to compete with. Unless our club does something radical over the next few weeks we could be looking at a season only slightly better than the last one.

He’s not a pure DM but gets stuck in and pops up everywhere. He’s a lot like Verratti. I don’t even care anymore, we need to be going around to every big club that’s got a top DM and offering a mega price even if they aren’t technically “available.” Make them say no or make the player say no. Go to Inter and make an offer for Barella. Go to Bayern and offer for Kimmich. Go to Madrid and offer for Tcho. Make these clubs say no to £100m when they aren’t doing nearly as well financially as top PL clubs are.

The club might want to wait if they were going to announce that tomorrow. Our fans will be brutal if we announce Tyler Adams around the same time Liverpool announce Caicedo. Maybe try to bury it while matches are on on Saturday.

Liverpool with this signing have made themselves genuine title contenders and will truly have City concerned about them again. We, meanwhile, have probably fucked our shot at top 4 unless there’s some mystery DM out there that can be transformative.

So in the end we WERE perfectly capable of offering £100m and we did so. But in our infinite wisdom we waited until another club entered the race and offered more. Could’ve offered the £100m weeks ago and been done with it but tried to be cute with Brighton by offering £65m, £75m, and then £80m when they were adamant about their valuation. In ONE DAY Liverpool we’re able to swoop in and get it done when we’ve been chasing all summer. Will these jokers take that £100m and offer it for some other midfielder now? Someone who perhaps wasn’t available but their club cannot possible turn down £85-100m? Barella?

And what’s worse is that it’s not like the club can go “we didn’t get Caicedo so we’ll go out and get ____ who is just as good or better.” Because there are no DM’s available that are as good as he is. Anyone else we’d be buying purely on potential. Fucking sickening.

And there’s Fabrizio saying it’s all but done. Well done to the board. Pissed up a wall all summer spunking money on kids that may or may not ever make it as Chelsea players while the player our manager desperately needed to get us back into Europe we fail to get him after chasing him for months.

Imagine if they do what we were meant to do and immediately sign up Lavia afterwards. Then wtf do we do? Go into the season with Adams and Ugo as our DM’s? We might be in the mud by Christmas.

The Ugarte stuff was embarrassing because we had apparently gotten so close but the fight for his signature everyone got over quickly because that saga only lasted a couple of weeks. I would say most of us Chelsea supporters have forgotten all about him. I know I have. But the Caicedo ordeal will be 50x more painful because we’ve staked our whole summer on getting him. Our whole season actually. At least 3 bids this window and tried briefly to get him in January as well. If Brighton simply dug their heels in and made him stay at any cost that would be super annoying but I’d get over it. But if he goes to a direct rival after a whole summer’s effort and negotiation? Like I said earlier, that’s sackable for whoever it is at the club who failed to secure him.

Nice. That’ll be Spuds out of the top 4 race. One less club to worry about. Kane will return to Spuds in a few years and welcomed as a returning hero to break the record.

Don’t know what would cause the bigger meltdown amongst Spuds fans: Kane finally leaving or Lukaku replacing him. I’d love to find out!

Sanchez was literally just around him days ago. We need to put him to use and have him on WhatsApp or whatever telling him how amazing Chelsea has been for his first few days.

So it’s all on Caicedo then. Need to hope a Spanish speaking manager and some of our Spanish speaking players (including a couple of his former teammates!) can convince him tonight.

I think Enzo would definitely be worth the 100m if we had a proper midfield structure around him. Which is what Caicedo provides. Him surrounded by literal kids or slightly average players like Gallagher or Adams would really be hamstringing him.

Yep, we panic buy some bang average bum next week.

Paul Joyce aka the biggest Liverpool mouthpiece out there has just retweeted an article about Caicedo’s upbringing and life story. I think we’ve fucked it here. Even though I really like Lavia, if he’s our consolation prize I think we’re struggling this season. He’s not the plug-and-play, ready made, every match starter that massively elevates our side like Caicedo is. Liverpool could win the league if they get Caicedo. 😡😡😡

Embarrassing. Liverpool could do in 1 day what we couldn’t do all summer.

Went to bed last night feeling like kids on Christmas Eve dreaming about signing both Caicedo and Lavia. May go to bed tonight knowing that when we wake up in the morning Caicedo could be a Liverpool player. 🤢🤢🤢

More like karma for fucking around all summer thinking Brighton would blink because we were the only genuine suitors.

Signing and chasing a dozen teenagers all summer while this transformative, MUCH NEEDED player for NOW was sitting there literally trying to force himself to our club. It should be sackable if we don’t get him after all this.

I think if someone offers £100m straight up with no add-ons they’ll get him. That’s what Brighton truly want, imo.