Moises Caicedo transfer: Midfielder completes medical after Chelsea agree British record fee with Brighton | Transfer Centre News
Moises Caicedo set to signal eight-year deal with Chelsea; midfielder accomplished medical on Monday; the Blues can pay £100m for Caicedo, plus £15m in performance-related add-ons; Caicedo turned down a £111m transfer to Liverpool
By Dharmesh Sheth, Sky Sports News Reporter @skysports_sheth
Moises Caicedo has accomplished his medical at Chelsea as he nears a British record £115m change from Brighton.
Caicedo arrived on the Chelsea coaching floor for his medical on Monday morning and accomplished that a part of the method at lunchtime.
The Blues are understood to be paying an preliminary £100m, plus £15m in performance-related add-ons.
We take a deep dive into the story of Moises Caicedo, and why he warrants a British-record fee as he nears a transfer to Chelsea
The midfielder will signal an eight-year contract, with the choice of an extra yr.
Brighton may have a sell-on clause that has been described as “significant” as a part of the £115m deal to promote Caicedo.
Half of the add-ons have been described as “quite easily achievable”, whereas the opposite half are thought of “much harder” to attain.
Liverpool agreed a £111m deal to signal Caicedo earlier this week however the transfer fell by when the 21-year-old knowledgeable the membership he meant to hitch Chelsea.
Caicedo had been anticipated to journey to Liverpool for a medical on Friday after Jurgen Klopp’s aspect had a bid accepted by Brighton following a midnight deadline for bids on Thursday.
But the Ecuador worldwide had a change of coronary heart and advised Liverpool – who drew 1-1 at Chelsea of their opening Premier League recreation of the season on Sunday – he didn’t wish to be a part of.
“I’m desperate for him to come to Liverpool as the need for him there is probably greater,” stated Sky Sports’ Jamie Carragher. “It’s going to be a big blow.”
Caicedo as an alternative remained in London and made it clear he solely wished to go away Brighton for Chelsea, who’ve been pursuing him all summer season.
The £115m fee eclipses the £106.8m Chelsea paid for Enzo Fernandez when breaking the British-record switch fee in January. Arsenal spent £105m on Declan Rice earlier in the summertime.
Chelsea wish to signal two midfielders this summer season and are nonetheless pushing to signal Southampton’s Romeo Lavia regardless of Liverpool agreeing a £60m deal for the Belgian.
Liverpool agree £60m Lavia deal however Chelsea nonetheless in pursuit
Liverpool have agreed a deal with Southampton for Romeo Lavia, Sky Sports News understands.
However, Chelsea are nonetheless pushing to signal Lavia and had been near an settlement with Saints late final week.
Sources have advised Sky Sports News that the overall package deal agreed between Liverpool and Southampton on Sunday night time is value £60m.
Southampton had been holding agency on their £50m valuation of 19-year-old Lavia. Chelsea had made a proposal of £48m final week, whereas Liverpool had seen three earlier provides turned down this summer season.
Chelsea’s pursuit of Lavia is impartial of the Moises Caicedo deal.
How a lot have Chelsea spent?
Chelsea have now splashed a league-topping £285.9m this summer season and Caicedo turns into the membership’s 10th signing of the window, having additionally signed Christopher Nkunku (£52m), Axel Disasi (£38.8m), Nicolas Jackson (£32m), Robert Sanchez (£25m), Lesley Ugochukwu (£23.1m), Angelo Gabriel, Ishe Samuels-Smith, Diego Moreira and Alex Matos (all undisclosed).
Last season, the Blues splashed a record-breaking £601.7m throughout each switch home windows on new signings and solely recouped £61m from participant gross sales – however the membership has balanced the books to date this season.
Mauricio Pochettino’s aspect have cashed in £232.3m on this window, promoting Kai Havertz (£65m), Mason Mount (£60m), Mateo Kovacic (£30m), Christian Pulisic (£18.8m), Ruben Loftus-Cheek (£18.5m), Kalidou Koulibaly (£17m), Edouard Mendy (£16m) and Ethan Ampadu (£7m).
As it stands, all these offers place Chelsea ninth within the desk for internet spend.
Klopp’s dig at Chelsea over transfers: What supervisor desires they get
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp could not resist slightly dig at rivals Chelsea when requested concerning the battle between the 2 golf equipment for the signing of Moises Caicedo
Jurgen Klopp had a dig at Chelsea after their 1-1 draw with Liverpool, suggesting regardless of the present supervisor at Stamford Bridge desires, he will get, concerning transfers.
Following the stalemate between the groups on Super Sunday, Klopp was requested about his reverse quantity Mauricio Pochettino wanting extra gamers on this window, which drew a reply of: “That’s what Chelsea managers want and they usually get it.”
Redknapp ‘shocked’ Caicedo turned Liverpool down
Former Liverpool midfielder and Sky Sports pundit Jamie Redknapp on the Essential Football Podcast:
“I’m clearly massively biased on this one – however that is astonishing for me!
“Normally Liverpool would all the time, all the time win this one arms down. I simply thought it was inevitable.
“I believed he would look nice in that pink equipment. I believed he can be the right signing for Liverpool.
“I get the attraction of Chelsea. It’s an enormous membership. They’ve gained so many issues over time.
“But I think in terms of the history of the clubs, I’m amazed, especially with Caicedo joining up with Alexis Mac Allister, I thought it would be a perfect move.”
Analysis: How Caicedo became £115m in-demand star
In the wake of his nation’s World Cup exit final yr, when different gamers had been jetting off to high-end vacation resorts, Caicedo was again in Santo Domingo, Ecuador, taking part in in an area match on the identical dusty pitch he used as a boy.
In footage which went viral in the country, Caicedo, a rising star within the Premier League who had simply change into Ecuador’s youngest scorer at a World Cup, might be seen discovering the online once more, solely this time as a ringer for Caicedos FC, a crew made up of prolonged relations.
His aim, slotted in on the close to publish in ramshackle environment, helped Caicedos FC win the match and was celebrated with a leap, a fist pump and a gesture of recognition to the few hundred spectators sitting or leaning on fences across the pitch.
“This is Moises,” Miguel Angel Ramirez, Caicedo’s former coach at his boyhood membership Independiente del Valle, tells Sky Sports with a smile. “Going back to his village, to his family, his friends, playing football, helping everyone there. He doesn’t forget his people…”
