The transfer window is still far from closing its doors, and Chelsea from having finished shopping. Despite €200m already spent on this market (Nkunku €65m, Disasi €45m, Jackson €37m, Ugochukwu €27m, Sanchez €23m and Gabriel €15m), the English club has not finished work on its workforce for this 2023/2024 financial year, which began yesterday with Manchester City’s victory over Burnley (3-0), and where the Blues started with a big chunk with the reception of Liverpool.
In addition to the attacker’s file, which we will probably have to talk about in the coming days, it is mainly in the midfield that the London management is working at the moment. The Roméo Lavia track was activated a few days ago. A first offer of £48m has been sent. It will not succeed but has made it possible to open lasting negotiations with Southampton, which is claiming 50. According to information from The Times this morning, a second proposal has just left.
Lavia and Caicedo desired
It is just over 50 million pounds, or around 60 million euros and should be enough to convince the leaders of the Saints to let go of the young Belgian international. That’s not all. With the many departures in the midfield in recent months (Jorginho, Zakaria, Kanté, Kovacic, Loftus-Cheek, even Ampadu and Bakayoko), Mauricio Pochettino needs another reinforcement in the midfield. Here too, a name has come up insistently in recent hours: Moises Caicedo.
Brighton had accepted an offer from Liverpool of €127m but the Ecuadorian refused. He wants to go to Chelsea. And that’s good because according to Sky Sports, the London club is preparing a crazy offer of £115m, or €133m, more than the Reds’ proposal. Faced with the urgency of the situation, it is even said that Todd Boehly and Behdad Eghbali, the two co-owners of the Blues, have taken this file in hand. Chelsea will therefore spend almost €200 million to strengthen themselves again.
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