According to media reports, Moises Caicedo is moving from Brighton to Liverpool.
The English Premier League starts on Friday night with a match where the promotion Burnley challenges the champion Manchester City. Liverpool, who finished fifth in the Premier League last season, dropped a real transfer bomb on the opening day of the season.
Brighton’s 21-year-old Ecuadorian star Moises Caicedo moves, among other things of The Athletic and, according to several British media, to Liverpool for a Premier League record sum.
Football editor of The Athletic by David Ornstein by On Friday, Caicedo and Liverpool will still handle the “formalities”, i.e. personal contract terms and a medical examination.
In January, Chelsea acquired the Argentine world champion by Enzo Fernandez from Portuguese Benfica for 121 million euros, which was a new Premier League transfer record. In the summer transfer window, Arsenal signed West Ham’s skipper By Declan Rice with 122 million euros.
Now Liverpool did better. For example According to the BBC Liverpool will pay Brigton for Caicedo 111 million pounds, or about 128 million euros. Fernandez, Rice and Caicedo are midfielders.
Brighton previously rejected Chelsea’s bids for Caicedo. Brighton had set a price of more than 100 million pounds for Caicedo and stated that no one could pay such a price.
Caicedo joined Brighton from Ecuador’s Independiente del Valle for £4m in February 2021.
Liverpool captain Jurgen Klopp has considered options for rebuilding his team after Liverpool finished fifth in the Premier League last season and missed out on the Champions League.
Several more experienced midfield men left Liverpool after last season, such as Fabinho and Jordan Henderson to Saudi Arabia, Naby Keita to Werder Bremen and James Milner to Brighton. Liverpool had made an addition to their midfield by Alexis Mac Allister from Brighton for 64 million euros and a Hungarian Dominik Szoboszlain From Leipzig for 70 million.
However, the width of Liverpool’s midfield has spoken. Still, the price Liverpool are willing to pay for Caicedo came as a surprise, as in April Liverpool announced they were not ready to fight for the midfielder Jude from Bellingham. Bellingham eventually moved to Real Madrid for a record sum for British players, more than 130 million euros.