Even more reason for Liverpool to keep the bid alive then. Accept he will eventually end up at Chelsea but make them break the bank for him?
Just because we weren't his first choice doesn't mean he won't give his best. (I don't expect him to come, btw)
According to Fabrizio Romano, in an attempt to match Liverpool's bid, Boehly has increased his offer from £105mill plus a stick figure drawing to now include him also getting a tattoo of a seagull on his arse with the words "Brighton's Bitch" added beneath it. Chelsea are hopeful that Brighton will see this as a bid equal or larger to Liverpool's £111mill offer.
SkySports saying Chelsea signing Caicedo AND Lavia is imminent. Chelsea perhaps left it until after the game to take the heat out of things. And Jurgen obviously knows - "What the Chelsea manager wants the Chelsea manager gets".
If we haven't been working on someone else during all this, THEN it'll be a disgrace on our behalf If of course they both end up at Chelsea
it's all speculation all round. every part of the waffle all Saturday and this morning are complete untrue and now after the game dies off they all all back out speculating to their audiences again. truth doesn't matter. all that matters is people follow them
I do wonder what Chelsea are waiting for. There doesn't seem to be any movement on Lukaku, Zieych or Hudson-Odoi, so they can't be waiting on money from them. They know a price, just bid already.
the longer it goes the more it will.look like they cannot and are waiting for us to go away The same for lavia. If they cannot buy caicedo yet then how on earth can they buy both? if they really want caicedo then its 111mil. really simple. if they can't afford that then they are waiting us out. the maths of this is fairly simple. 55 plus 115 is 170mil add.up every potential sale they have mentioned above then they might get a total of 70. might.
At a guess I would say they have roughly £85m wiggly room before ffp bites them hard. If they can't shift the unwanted ones. £85m was their last Caicedo bid that was rejected a while back and since then they haven't been back officially. Lavia at £55m and Adams at £20m, £75m together, looks like their backup plan. Pulling out of the Adams deal, when it was virtually done, would suggest they need that £20m to even get close to matching our bid. Also came after the agent hinted they still wanted Chelsea. The rest would have to made up of sales, £30mish, which is why their delaying as they'll need to gain that from at least one of the unwanted players. Think they missed the boat on selling Zieych to the Saudi's. The Saudi spending seems to have died down now they've kicked off. But this does seem to be their best option for revenue. Lukaku is stuck imo, none of the Italian clubs want to actual pay for him and there seems to be little interest elsewhere. Hudson-Odoi, not worth £30m, not worth £10m these days. Made a massive mistake not selling him to Bayern a while back. Can't see them being able to get both Lavia and Caicedo. Its either Lavia plus one other or Caicedo solo. Comes a point where the player will have to make a decision the long it goes on.
I mean, this is all total conjecture. You have zero clue what Chelsea's finances are looking like lol I would imagine we are looking at FFP otherwise we would have made another bid, but all this is total conjecture.
Thats why I put 'at a guess' at the start There was some paper talk that Chelsea had around £100m before they fell foul to ffp. How much of that is true I don't know, but it would appear there may be some truth in it.
