Arsenal has been handed a boost in their pursuit of Moises Caicedo as Brighton looks set to bag a replacement for the midfielder.
Mikel Arteta’s side has been in talks with the Seagulls over a move for the Ecuadorian as they look to bolster their squad before this window closes.
Caicedo has asked the Seagulls to allow him to leave and Arsenal has tabled a new and improved offer for his signature worth £60m – plus £10m.
A report on Football Insider reveals the new bid could be accepted because Brighton is in talks to sign Amadou Haidara of RB Leipzig.
Both clubs have been negotiating for some time now and have found an agreement, paving the way for Brighton to replace the Arsenal target.
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Caicedo is keen to get the move and after making an emotional plea, it seems Brighton is ready to offload him for Arsenal’s offer.
However, until the agreement is struck, we cannot put all our eggs in one basket and must consider adding an alternative to the group if a move for Caicedo breaks down completely.
The 21-year-old would be a good long-term investment, but we can return for Youri Tielemans, who will be much cheaper and has more experience.
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No chance for that price
Pay Zubimendi release clause like we did with Partey.
53 million and job done
Well come caisedo to arsenal
TIELEMANS categorically will not be coming to us. He may well be cheap but he is also a cheap quality player, esp when compared to the level we now are. IF, which will not happen, he were to play in our team, we would be weakened, not strengthened.
IF this latest CAICEDO comment proves to be true, as I hope and believe it PROBABLY will, then it will have been a terrific January window for us.
I think he is a good player, but very expensive. Why not going in for Tielsman, because he has surely patiently waited imagine lost out even a chance to join Barcelona as he had a word to Arsenal
Well if we were to sign Caicedo for 70/80M,it has to be on a long term contract 7 years.thanks to Chelsea ,football authorities are going to close the loopholes they used and reduce the length of allowed contracts from this summer.
They are not reducing the length of player contracts. They are limiting the length of time for spreading payments for transfer fees to five years. All thanks to Chelsea
You have to wonder though Siamois how we have managed to spend going on 700 million (if we sign Caicedo)in 5 years ,without CL football and given players away for free or paying them to leave ,it’s not just Chelsea .
True @DK!!no real valuable assets/players,no European football, contracts terminations, paying for hiring/firing UE and his staff, hiring MA and staff…were we not one of the clubs that UEFA were keeping a close look at,due to our spending/FFP?
@digr8xt,Thanks for the clarification!👍
SAIMOIS you will of course realise that IF we were to do as Chelsea are doing , in order to amortise contracts over a large period of years, IF such a player becomes surplus to requirements down the line, but refuses to move, a la Ozil, then we are stuck with having to pay his high wages, as he will not accept “peanuts” for sure, possibly for many financially damaging years ahead.
Chelsea are storing up a whole heap of trouble by putting a number of their expensive new signings on this dangerous very long term contract, simply in order to get round FFP regs. It will come back to bite them HUGELY AND DAMAGINGLY in the pocket.
We will NOT foolishly do likewise, IMO. Longer term than five year contracts are NOT BEING banned , but will simply be outlawed from being used to amortise contracts.
All valid arguments.
No point getting excited, let’s face it chances are he will end up at Chelsea. If they want him they can outbid us.
Chelsea hav started negotiating for enzo
Hope you are right though being Chelsea they will probably buy both. TBH it seems a lot of money for someone relatively untested as any high level.
What I’ve been reading is that Caicedo could be with us come Tuesday ,not sure if true but betting patterns back it up ,Sounded like the Brighton manager had conceded keeping him earlier so all points to him being signed .
Personally think he’s a fantastic young player who’s interception and recovery skills will fit perfectly into this team ,not to bothered about how much he costs as players these days are going for stupid amounts so we have to keep up .
If it does happen though you have to feel sorry for Brighton as their scouting team are obviously a step ahead of any big team in the league but they keep getting picked off one at a time even though they are being handsomely rewarded.
DK I totally agree!
Okay? Jon Fox looks to believe Arsenal Caicedo deal will be a done deal. Otherwise I would have said that Aesenal should gazump Brighton to their signing of RB Lipzip’s Amadou Haidara at lower transfer fee. Which Brighton are likely will pay to sign him.
Instead of Arsenal to pay Brighton the outrageous amount of £70m or more to sign their Caicedo. But only for Brighton to use a small part of the £70m they will receive from Arsenal to sign Haidara. Who I believe must be a top quality Dmf, if he is a Dmf. Otherwise Brighton will not be signing him probably as replacement to their Caicedo if he left for Arsenal.
But if Arsenal does gazump Brighton to Haidara signing, the two clubs transfer widows good working relationship could suffer a damage that may take time to repair.
Perhaps we should go for Haidara who must be very good to attract the attention of the best recruitment team in England?
Moses Caicedo playing style is perfect for Arsenal, it’s just that he needs some more development in my opinion.
What I can say with him you are going to see a lot less side passes, when he plays, if we should get him.
But his ceiling is high so he’s worth the gamble.
Seems the guess aimed at the wrong target – being reported that Brighton completed the signing of a 19 year-old AIK Swedish international midfielder Yasin Ayari for 6m euros (£5.2m).
That could mean the Caicedo deal is about to go through.
I’m not sure how to feel about this, but I’vbe come to realise that the club has a good idea what they’re doing, most of their transfers work out.
I dare say Arteta see a player he can use some of the time while developing him for the future.
My worry is when a player agitates for the move, is he right for the squad… but then circumstances can be different and Edu seems to be on the ball in that regard.
Regarding your last paragraph- it concerns me as well!
I wouldn’t worry about it,even De Zerbi said he was a great,young guy.from what I’ve read his wages could be considered very low for a PL player(10-15k/week).as Caicedo twitted,he has 9 siblings and his parents to look after.if he were to sign for Arsenal , he’d easily quadruple it.also in his tweet he spoke about winning trophies.as we know an opportunity like this one might never present itself again and I don’t mean money wise,just ask Aouar!
Keeping my fingers crossed for yet another deadline-day blockbuster. A club record for a DM. Whew!!! Let’s hope it works out better than the last record-setting deal for Ozil.