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Ryan's avatar

Honestly...that's just too much money for Caicedo. No way we need to be having a £200m + pivot.

Yes we dragged it on and should've sorted it earlier, but that's still an excessive fee. Man Utd nearly got Caicedo for £5m not long ago...

If this is 'derailing your season' then I reckon get off the internet for a bit and do something fun. It just isn't that deep. Caicedo is good but he's not £110m good.

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Jonathan Merrick's avatar

Thank you Si for all your updates - I totally get why you need a break from it all!

My optimism for the coming season has collapsed like a flat-pack wardrobe.

Thank you Winstanley and Stewart – Caceido - an object lesson in how NOT to negotiate a key transfer:

1) Go in far too low - £60 and £70 million bids had absolutely no chance of success.

2) Drag out talks at a snail-like pace over months, miles off the asking price.

3) Failure to read selling club’s position – you would have thought we had learned all there is to learn about Brighton. Obviously not. Brighton do not cave in if their price is not met. Incidentally, to all those rubbishing Brighton over the last few months – they are the real winners here. Get over their asking price and manage to offload their 3rd choice GK for a decent £25 million.

4) P*ss off direct rivals for key player Caceido by putting a bid in for their own target – Lavia.

With Caceido I could see a top 6 finish. Without him, mid-table.

Talk now of Veratti – great player in his heyday but 30 years old, another small midfielder, very high wages and injury prone.

Don’t need to wait until the end of the transfer window to give my verdict – about 2/10 – if I am in a generous mood. And it could get worse……with Winstanley and Stewart operating it probably will.

We absolutely have to get Lavia AND Mohammed Kudus now – no ifs and buts. But I have absolutely no confidence that this will happen.

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