Fabrizio Romano has told his followers that Arsenal have tabled an offer of £60 Million for the services of Moises Caicedo, around £5 Million more than rivals Chelsea had offered earlier this week.
The Gunners have already lost out to the Blues in the transfer market this month, with Mikhailo Mudryk ending up in West London after we failed to agree terms with his previous club Shakhtar Donetsk. This time it could go the other way however, with us closing in on the Ecuadorian midfielder.
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⛔️ Brighton rejected £55m bid from Chelsea, they want to keep Moises.
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— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) January 27, 2023
I have to say, I’m a big fan of Caicedo. I believe he could have more of an impact on the way the rest of the campaign could play out than Mudryk, given that the Ukrainian is a raw talent that will take time to have such an impact in a new division.
Whether the Blues will up their own offer and mount a serious challenge for his signature should our bid be accepted however is another issue, and I’m not allowing myself to get ahead of things on this one just yet.
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Brighton have rejected our 60M bid…
It will be interesting to see what happens now..
My hunch is that we have a bit more money to play with and believe if we offer something along the lines of £60M+£20M add-ons or £65M+£15M add-ons, it should be enough to get it done but as we know Brighton are tough negotiators so this could go right down to the wire.
Probably an unpopular take but I really struggle with this one. For years we were on the receiving end of bids like this when the sugar daddy teams came in, unsettled our players and pillaged our squad. Now we are doing the same. I realise that its tone of the ways to get to the top but it still doesn’t sit right. Especially so late in the window when the Seagulls wont have time to replace.
On footballing note, if it lessens the chances of Rice in the summer would rather steer clear and make due with what we have or go for a loan.
Are you serious, you do realize the dangers of a partey injury, and the dangers it could do to our title charge, we should not make the right signings because it would hurt another team, loads of bollocks to me.
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Caceido is the perfect replacement for Partey. With him our midfield is secured.
Don’t forget that Ted will up whatever we bid so it could go to £70 million easily. Do we need him that badly? I’m not sure.
If Arsenal win the EPL, EL or both and the young
Ecuadorian plays a pivotal role in the Championship
run his worth in transfer fees can’t be quantified.
I personally don’t care if Arsenal spends £100M on
him quite frankly if he is the choice of EDU and MA
Sky reporting that we are interested in Declan rice in summer regardless of what happens with Caceido ,not sure how both would fit in but exciting times if true especially Caceido who is probably the most exciting player on the books at Brighton ,have to feel sorry for them though as the big teams continually pick them off them .
With Brighton already being raided in a January and 4 days to go in the window (so Brighton will find it very difficult to replace him)… it’s difficult to see why we’d expect them to sell now.
I don’t pay much mind to anything that Romano guy says – he’s just another rumour-mill merchant, but the offer/rejection was reported on BBC Sport so I tend to believe it (unlike the rest of their rubbish news output these days).