Moises Caicedo to Chelsea: How it happened with secret meetings, owner flying in, and more

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·15 August 2023

Moises Caicedo to Chelsea: How it happened with secret meetings, owner flying in, and more

Chelsea finally announced the signing of Brighton midfielder Moises Caicedo yesterday after months of negotiations and trying to secure the deal.

Chelsea fans celebrated the move and have been craving it to be completed for a long time now, many of them becoming very frustrating with how long it took, especially when Liverpool tried to hijack it at the last minute.

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The Telegraph have a great story out about how it happened and how Chelsea got it done, and here are some of the key details of that:

Entire summer of offers, rejections, secret meetings and careful plots
Move was led by Paul Winstanley.
Once owner Behdad Eghbali flew into London to become personally involved, it became the owner’s deal.
Brighton owners played games.
Chelsea were always confident that Caicedo wanted to join them.
Liverpool made huge bid without knowing if the player wanted to join them.
Caicedo had given Chelsea his word and he evidently did not want to break that promise.
On Friday evening, late into the night, Chelsea made contact with Brighton and a deal worth £115 million was agreed in principle. Liverpool had been in the picture for only a few days, and now they were effectively out of it again.
Chelsea’s key decision-makers knew that offering Levi Colwill to Brighton would make a deal for Caicedo infinitely more straightforward. But they wanted both players, and insisted throughout the summer that Colwill was not going anywhere.
Caicedo’s own actions, and the introduction of Eghbali as the new leader of Chelsea’s negotiations, finally brought the situation to boiling point last week. Liverpool’s intervention then drove up the price further, forcing Chelsea to bid far more than they ever expected or planned.

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