Pizy

We’ve allowed it to happen by haggling for so many weeks. Caicedo could’ve and should’ve been a Chelsea player weeks ago when nobody else was even thinking about him and Liverpool were busy bidding for Lavia. Now, perhaps due to extreme internal pressure from Klopp, Liverpool’s owners are willing to splurge on this one huge signing to take them back into title contention. Perhaps them receiving unexpected big money for Henderson and Fabinho made it possible at the last minute for them when it wouldn’t have been possible before. It doesn’t seem implausible to me. They’ve shown with Alisson, Van Dijk, and Darwin that when Klopp really feels like there’s a top player that will be transformative for them his owners will go big. PLUS, they’re probably selling Caicedo on the idea of reuniting with Mac Allister and making a genuine title charge. That’s gotta be appealing to him you would think.

I don’t think this Liverpool stuff is fake. Otherwise they’d have just payed up the extra £5m and gotten Lavia who they’ve been after for months.

So basically whoever offers £100m gets him. It’s hard for me to imagine FSG suddenly being okay doing that after haggling for other targets and refusing to spend big money. But will we?

Why skimp out on such an important position, though? Why now? We’ve already gone for the cheap option at striker with Jackson instead of going big for a star striker like everyone expected. We went the much cheaper route at keeper instead of going huge for an Onana/Maingnan/Diogo Costa like every expected us to. We refused to get involved in the Rice chase. So the money should be there when it comes to the most important area of the team that we have yet to address.

So ANOTHER day will pass without our top target in the building. Time and time again our club have payed the money for players they truly wanted, even if it was a bit high. But for one that we desperately need we have refused to.

Bidding just £2m above what Liverpool did and £2m short of what Southampton want just sounds weird. As if our club got word that Liverpool were sniffing around Caicedo and wanted to fuck with them by bidding for their target.

The club have done so much right this summer but the biggest mystery and puzzling thing is that we knew as soon as the last season ended that priority position #1 was DM and we’re now scrambling mere days before the new season starts to sign one. Kante, Kova, RLC, and even Zakaria have been gone for ages. A DM should’ve been sewn up a month ago. It’s truly bizarre that we can rapidly wrap up deals for players that we may not see in a Chelsea first team shirt for years for £20m+ each but are dragging and dragging over an extra £20m for a player that dramatically improves us NOW. In a season where we MUST return to UCL football and will have a fantastic chance to do so with 1 game a week.

I just hope we have 100% clarity one way or another TODAY so that we can move for one or the other before the game on Sunday.

Bayern being willing to spend £100m on a DM is even less believable than Liverpool doing it. Especially as they’ve been super reluctant until this morning to spend huge money in Kane.

With Adams signing it’s one of Lavia or Caicedo. Remember that we still need an attacker of some sort who can score goals before this window closes. Maybe another keeper as well if Kepa goes. So anyone thinking we will sign both Caicedo and Lavia now is mad, imo.

Law is arguably the most reliable on Chelsea matters. He doesn’t just run to Twitter and report bullshit. If he’s saying it then he must have heard from someone super reliable.

If in the end he goes to Liverpool it’s going to be infuriating to see how we bid £80m for him and then instead of stumping up the extra £20m we used that money to buy Ugo, Washington, and Adams. Instead of buying the world class DM that could’ve been a rock in our midfield for years we instead buy average or potential. Liverpool are genuine title challengers if they hijack this.

If we miss out on Caicedo it’s a disgrace. Worse still if he haunts us at Liverpool for a decade. I knew it made zero sense for us to be after all 3 of Adams, Lavia, and Caicedo. The fact that Adams now looks done and we’ve put in a bid out of nowhere for Lavia suggests that Caicedo is off to Liverpool.

Uhhh. How does Tyler Adams make an ounce of sense if we’ve bid for Lavia AND are still going after Caicedo? Something isn’t as it seems.

Let’s see if your source comes through today

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 Please let this happen! In the short term (next 2-3 years) Spuds will be in the mud if Kane goes.

Until there’s been a briefing like there was last night about the Lavia bid then we don’t know whether the bid has been rejected or not. Just wait for that.

That’s definitely strange. Saw someone elsewhere mention that maybe we let them keep some of the Livramento money we were owed?

We simply cannot miss out on Caicedo at this point. Lavia’s game is not mature enough to be the main, sole DM at a club with top 4 ambitions this season. So if we end up getting him instead of Caicedo we will struggle. But if we get both somehow then who knows how high we should aim.

Only way is getting 2 more midfielders makes sense, really. Two DM’s + Enzo in a 4-3-3.

Yep. Like I just said, this is Liverpool’s top target so this late in the summer there’s surely no way they’d walk away because of a few million.

Anything in midfield after we secure Caicedo is icing on the cake. Just make sure to get him in first and foremost. Getting Caicedo AND Lavia would make this a historically insane transfer window. But it seems almost impossible to believe. Unless there’s some crazy agents fees involved that we’d pay and Liverpool refuse to, I don’t understand why Liverpool would be okay offering £46m but back out at £48m. It makes zero sense.

Uhhhh, what?! Reports literally in the same hour that we’ve made a breakthrough with Caicedo AND we’ve bid for Lavia? Whilst also hearing this morning that concrete talks have opened with Adams? Methinks we’re trying to put some pressure on Brighton with this Lavia stuff. But could you even imagine us getting both Lavia and Caicedo? Good Lord, what a midfield we’d have for the next decade….

Hope you’re right, mate. But honestly I believe you more than him 🤣 He’s not reporting anything new there.

Reading that Steinberg article and it’s really nothing new or different. -Chelsea want him ASAP and ideally before Liverpool at the weekend. -Brighton want the full £100m. -Chelsea not yet sure if they’ll pay that. Literally the same shit we’ve been hearing for weeks.