That’s all well and good but why hasn’t he travelled for his medical yet? Clear he’s waiting on Chelsea as that’s his preferred destination.
For that reason alone we should withdraw the offer now we know Bloom won’t accept anything less, keep the money for players who are worth it and in the meantime Caicedo can sling his hook.
Think they will find the funds. Liverpool staying in to see if chelsea find the funds and to see how it plays out
Why does Carragher get so much stick on here?
(sorry just a brief derailing interlude amongst the Caicedo angst)
I thought the consensus was that Thursday was their cut off day. Well Brighton seem to have erred on that.
If the medical is with the NHS, it’ll be in about three years time.
so we still holding!!
Can’t speak for anyone else, but I lost all respect for him when he spat at that kid.
And yet people still call him esteemed.
Do they? Seems an unlikely epithet for him.
This …my understanding is probably simplified and it’s more than likely wrong , but they had a deadline , we met all the provisions and requirements for them and Brighton accepted…
The reason why we have not withdrawn as far as I can see is because we have an agreement in place , and whatever Chelsea are doing to screw it over surely comes in as tapping up the player etc?
Because he seems to have interpreted his objective responsibilities as a journalist into meaning that he has to slag us off at any given opportunity.
That’s part of anybody’s contract with Sky.
It won’t. The only deadline that matters is the end of the window. The one that journos were saying Brighton imposed is entirely irrelevant. Not a binding deadline in any sense, just a line leaked to journos to get clubs to stump up money.
Chelsea’s behaviour with the player is possibly questionable, but at the same time we don’t know of any contact with the player. All we know is that the agent is stalling and, as has been explored much earlier in the thread, the agent is notoriously difficult and doesn’t actively communicate things with Caicedo. Agent and Chelsea may be being shits, but that doesn’t necessarily mean any contact or bad faith with Caicedo so cannot claim tapping up as the player may not be being told anything by his agent beyond “just wait and see”. Added to which this is the last window where agents commissions can be absurd, going forward there is a percentage cap on agent commissions, so the agent may be trying to get his last genuinely massive pay out.
Has Chelsea made an official offer to Brighton ? I’m under the impression that the offer isn’t forthcoming. Chelsea are trying to make us withdraw our offer so that Brighton have no choice but to accept their offer for the player.
We wouldn’t have bidded by the player had we not been encouraged by the player. Chelsea can try and make deals for Lavia in the meantime. We’ll get someone else.
Not one which has been accepted.
Not since we did. Seems a recurring belief among the journos that they cannot afford to match us without incurring FFP sanctions and no is quite sure what that means for Chelsea. Since then there’s been a very public game of cat and mouse that Chelsea are largely playing with themselves; they’ve pulled out of the Adams deal, claimed they’re gonna bid 55-60 for Lavia (deal not agreed, but coincidentally our most recent target), claimed they’re gonna bid 115 for Caicedo (nothing forthcoming, according the dripfeed of journos relaying pro-Chelsea shite they were gonna bid yesterday arvo, then yesterday evening, then this morning, now god knows when), and claimed they’re buying both Lavia and Caicedo when they seem unable to actually bid or stump up any money for either. During all of this we have ignored their bullshit and are content to wait and see if they are actually capable of stumping up the money as we see their bullshit as bluffing.
Considering how many they’ve sold to Saudi clubs etc , and the fact that they have essentially started the new ownership after having so much written off by Roman. Don’t quite see how they are in the FFP problems.
Maybe someone else understands this more.
But you don’t pressurise another club to drop the bid. Either match it or better it.
deafening silence from our end…I LOVE IT!
And because he was a damn good poster. I might try to persuade him to come back given the current circumstances.
The spending since Boehly came in has largely been amortised over 8 years, hence the long contracts they’ve been giving out. They spent massively once he came in and spread the purported cost as far as FFP is concerned over an 8 year span, and as such all of the transfers they have already made since Boehly came in are still factoring into their FFP calculations. The thinking of Boehly was spend big one year to not have to spend for a long time, but the players they bought last season were largely ineffective and now another big window is required from them. Since last season a change was made to FFP amortisation calculations; even if you tie a player down to an 6/7/8 year contract the fee must be sorted within 5 years as far as FFP is concerned meaning that transfers are now going to cost Chelsea a lot more on a year by year basis and they have already tied up a lot of their balance in the transfers of last year. No one knows quite how much wiggle room they have, but Liverpool seem pretty confident that they cannot match a bid of £111,000,000. So far, given all the posturing, and lack of action from Chelsea, it would seem as though Liverpool have called it right. Time will tell.