Well, this could end up being one of Arsenal’s most amazing transfer windows ever if this latest neews is true.
It comes from Jacque Talbot, who is a respected sports journalist who writes for the Guardian, the Mirror and the Times amongst other publications.
This is what he has tweeted….
It’s my understanding Arsenal have lodged a third bid for Moisés Caicedo, a club-record. Huge single payment as one lump sum. Deal’s been agreed. https://t.co/n4knYsPxzq
— Jacque Talbot (@jac_talbot) January 31, 2023
It seemed inevitable that Brighton would squeeze the las penny out of Arsenal but it appears that this time the offer has finally been accepted.
Of course we knew that this could be on the cards when it was announced yesterday that Brighton had brought in a replacement midfielder.
So having confirmed Trossard and Jorginho, surely Caicedo is the icing on the cake that will give the gunners a more than capable squad as they aim to win the Premier League and still have great backuos to be able to rotate for the Europa League.
This could be a fantastic season for the Gunners!
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It’s not true. We are ending with Jorginho for 12mill. This club is strange. Penny-pinch on players that could have long term futures here. but throw a whole 12mill away on a player that will only be relevant here for 4 months…. Truly maddening stuff.
Ask Chelsea about Jao Felix loan fee but this one is permanent with an option to extend. Arsenal need experience and nice back up…. great move I suggest
Am intrested in caecado than jorginho
Jorginho is not a bad idea all will need is to add up with the players we have already to enable us to lift the trophy,Jorginho playing for Chelsea he knows the league very well,he has the experience.
Use ur head, 12mil for a PL proven Midfielder as a back up, or a totally unworthy 80mil price tag for a 19 games PL proven prospect, which one is more sensible when it comes to pushing title. Partey isnt injured, we just need a back up, a reliable one
To me it makes sense and saying that not being a fan of jourginho. 70m for Caicedo seems strong to say the least but it being the consequences of the Chelsea market. Jourginho as a rotation player just shifting the ball ten yards either way sitting in front of the defence is an upgrade on Lakonga. I would hope that would give us a buffer on funds in the summer to go big and secure Rice.
Why is it strange?, Arteta has been a fan of Jorginho for a while, brings great experience, and knows he will be on the bench, but he is a proven winner, a great experience for the younger players, I think he is a great buy along with Trossard, will you be complaining if it gets us the PL title, I know I won’t
We are challenging for the title. Who cares about 12m?
Caicedo is not a proven star as everybody thinks he is worth 75mil, he is not even irreplaceable in Brighton team. Jorginho with salary will cost us 20mil for 18 months, Caicedo we will overpay by that amount, at least, than his market value. Except last 2 years we have been buying players above their market value, and have not offloaded any – I would rather have Rice in the summer and not get robbed by Brighton
Coming please its not your money,we need that experience for young lads…Think forward not backwards
I hope this is true.
Where are all the Kroenke criticisers? Complaining year after year that we don’t spend when it couldn’t be further from the truth. Care to share our spending over the past 5 years?
Keep in mind MA and Edu has recouped almost nothing from sales compared to our spending so our net spend is massive.
I think Arteta has really shown is quality as manager this season and spotting talent, but looking at Edu’s track record over the past 3,5 years with more accuracy, he looks completely out of his depth.
Most of our best performers are not what’s considered “bargains” but in truth were relatively big money signings:
– Martinelli, bargain but signed before Edu
– Ben White, madly expensive (good player though)
– Partey FULL release clause paid
– Saka, ESR, Eddie, youth players
– Ramsdale, fantastic keeper but quite a lot paid given the players circumstances
– Jesus, Zinchenko, great purchases but fairly expensive AND most likely bought because credit of Arteta
– Saliba, signed just 2 weeks later after Edu appointed and loaned out for several years
Gabriel Magalhaes seems like something I could credit Edu for, also Ödegaard.
I’m not saying that these mentioned players are bad signings, I’m saying that thinking of the role that Edu has in the club, I can’t see much what he’s doing:
– we end up paying excessive fees for players
– we end up getting next to nothing in sales
– either we have incompetent scouts to spot talent or scouts’ advice is not being heard at all
I’m afraid Jorginho will join the same bunch of Willian, Pablo Mari etc. ridiculous signing hard to get rid of. Hopefully I’m wrong.
it’s a 1.5 year deal. 12mill to be backup for 4 months, then sit on a bench for a year. 😂
if Elneny is out long term and with Partey’s history this makes sense to me – best we were going to get and when you think of CL money, good investment. Jorghinio has a lot of experience and does his job.
Ofcourse most chelsea players when they come to emirates they flop. Edu wasting money there
Just let them do their jobs please.
how does my comment prevent them from doing their jobs? Please elaborate.
ofcourse l’m behind you ,Gaspur has nothing made from his sales but spends alot on even players like viera who don’t even deserve £30m
You are not saying that those players are bad? But you are also not saying that with these players we seat confortably on top of the PL.
I used to be one of the Kreonke critics but I jumped shipped when I actually saw how much the club has spent over the past 3 or so seasons. We might not win the league by the end of the season (praying we do) but the investment truly has been there
I wish we pay the money for Rice instead.. But happy regardless since we lack options in midfield if any gets injured
I’m seeing Joginho or Caesedo now which one is which? Yet all the options are good bcz for jorgenho that will give us way for waiting those who are ready to join in summer, For Caesedo it’s for now and future since he is young. But Brighton’s hiking behavior is not ok.
Spot on once again PJ-SA.
The Kronkie’s have supported MA to the hilt and I believe they will continue that in the summer, when we try to sign Declan Rice.
As for Jorg, what happened with previous chelsea signings is completely irrelevant.
We wanted cover for Partey and for £12,000,000 we have an experienced PL player who MA wanted!!!
Can’t see anything wrong with this transfer..
In all seriousness PJ-SA, how many of our former players had any decent re sale value? Couldn’t give half of them away!
Seemingly Jorginho will be our only midfield addition with Lokonga leaving and Elneny possibly out for the rest of the season. Very strange signing as Jorginho will be completely irrelevant next summer and considered deadwood.
This is 13-14 season’s January all over again. Top of the table in January, main midfielder gets injured, we sign already-injured Kim Kallström..
Situation is the same except Partey/Xhaka are still fit, luckily.
Will that luck last until May?
I just can’t see how Caicedo was our only midfield target for the whole window and Jorginho being the option B. Its like we don’t have scouting team at all?
We hve both Tielsman and Rice lined up in summer, although stiff competition. if we are to spend excessive on a virtually unknown PL player, chances r that we will hve a very thin warchest in summer, something i dun wanna see
Sigh. I get tired of posting the same thing.
Elneny is the problem – he had a season ending injury on 14th Jan, 2 weeks before the end of this window.
Lokonga also not performing well, so 2 backups failing is what caused this – it wasn’t in the original plan to buy a DM in January, it was forced on us.
And we still have Partey fit, the issue is *only* with backups.
we have good scouts but the issue remains with the board being too mean and stingy b’coz when you see scouted plyrs like zubimendi,caicedo,onana for no.6 are all gd plyrs that means edu is the biggest problem
This is not “the latest news”. Since this story came out, almost every other source has implied that it is wrong. Skybet follows these things closely and if he was joining, the overnight odds of 11/10 for Caicedo to join Arsenal would have shortened to about 1/10. Instead they have gone out to 8/1.
This is just plain stupid,wasted the whole window on Mudryk,now the Caicedo deal looks unlikely only to end up with a Chelsea reject.😠😠😠😠😠
And there I was thinking we were ramping up Caicedo’s price to tempt Chelsea into paying far more than he’s worth and for twice as long, and they’ve gone and attempted to break the transfer fee record on someone else.
I still think this is not a good deal, but hope I’m very, very wrong.
@Jax,
I secretly hoped we were upping Caicedo’s price up so Chelsea would end up swooping in and overpay for him, also meanwhile keeping them busy with ‘faux Jorginho interest’ with no intention of buying him. And all this would’ve been cover up for us signing someone in secret, who could really make an impact this season.
I had the same thought but it seemed too much because of how much Chelsea’s already spent.
But then again, whenever I’ve thought they must be finished in this window, they keep spending. The latest £105m is nuts.
I thought Potter was a good manager based on what he achieved at Brighton so I was disappointed to see him go to Chelsea and I really hope this goes wrong for Chelsea because I don’t want football to have this kind of money in it – or to see this level of disparity between a few rich clubs and the rest.
I don’t care. I feel quite ill.
JORGINHO!!??
Jorginho was a winner. He will still be good for Arsenal. Don’t worry. After all, signing Jorginho may be a screen to stop Chelsea from hijacking Calcedo, Arsenal’s primary target.
If arsenal can fail to buy casido is better arsenal should go and buy victor from Napoli
Unless Fabrizio confirm, shouldn’t we believing it..
Unless Fabrizio confirm, shouldn’t we believing it..
Arsenal scouting is incompetent,i wonder why they can’t spot,these players,now that,they’ve to spend huge some of money,to get them from other clubs.
Signing Jorgi is a bad idea. There are many midfielders available and affordable. Edu has to open his eyes wide and search across continents.
If u think edu is not doing a good,go and replace…arsenal has got too many fanatics i see.
Unfortunately these are the current market prices one has to pay if you are aiming high. Our squad is very thin so we need to increase the numbers.
My only worry is we seem to prefer only Portuguese and Spanish speaking players these days.
True! Selling Tierney while no real defensive replacement, squendered a chance to sign Danilo but Jorginho
Still not good enough – buy DANILO
Do you remember our lion Guendouz
Hes was fantastic but a kid gone
That reporter is an idiot.
Jorginho should be an upgrade on Eleny & Lokanga isn’t it ? so still better but I think Arsenal is still short in MF and need one more quality addition .
Tony Bloom professional poker player likes to own his boy Caicedo. Not the best of people Mr Bloom. Why shouldn’t Caicedo think of his dreams and wishes? It’s all about Bloom’s money and not Caicedo’s wishes for his own and his families lives. I just don’t like the Tony Blooms of this world.
I’m flummoxed by your post. Isn’t Caicedo under contract to Brighton? He’s young and if he keeps up the good work will keep his family very comfortably
Your comment about Mr Bloom is idiotic. He has spent more than £120,000,000 of his own money on BHA. He’s done this because he and his family have been life long supporters of the club. Remember, he came along when BHA didn’t even have a ground. and we’re playing their matches miles away at Gillingham’s ground. If you think that there’s profit owning a small town club holding only 30,000 spectators you are very misguided.
Great piece of business and calculated moves so far, Giorghino should add experience and another winning mentality to the young squad as Zinchenko en Jesus have done, Caicedo will be a great addition to the squad either. He is a far more productive player compared to Lokonga.
Before Arteta it seemed to be that every transfer window was a big build-up to an even bigger disappointment – we can only hope there’s no return of those days. Personally I continue to keep my hopes alive. Whether Caicedo comes or not the resurgent arsenal are still in the ascendency.
Tony Bloom, football club owner symbolically like a plantation owner. Player trafficker. How much is somebody worth?
This reporter, Jacque Talbot who broke this FALSE ,is either a LIAR or a completely INCOMPETENT dimwit.
I suspect the latter is true!
How committed will Jorginho be to the cause at Arsenal remains to be seen
At 31 you are motivated by a longer payday and everything else is secondary.
I would rather test our luck and keep Lokonga and spend big in the summer on Rice.
Will see.
Lokonga can’t be trusted with arsenal’s midfield if we are actually hoping for something tangible at the head of the season, I had rather go with Edu and the likes on this jorginho than putting hope in someone like lokonga. How many times are we going to be testing luck with flop lokonga.
Not the first time you’ve railed against Mr Bloom. One suspects some other motive.
Lokonga can’t be trusted with arsenal’s midfield if we are actually hoping for something tangible at the head of the season, I had rather go with Edu and the likes on this jorginho than putting hope in someone like lokonga. How many times are we going to be testing luck with flop lokonga.
I don’t understand.
After the window closed?