[Albion] Levi Colwill

[Hugo Rune]

How can we ‘insist’? He’s a player contracted to Chelsea. We can make a bid and try to facilitate a move via a potential Caicedo sale, but that’s as far as it goes.

I suspect Levi wants out that basket case club. Imagine the immense pressure he’ll be under there. A mistake or two and those entitled knuckleheads will be booing his every move.

I’d be shocked if the club weren’t holding Chelsea to ransom over Caicedo. I suspect they been told they can have him but we must have Caicedo.

I also suspect RDZ has looked Tony in the eye and told him his feelings about Colwill. Tony will move heaven and earth to keep RDZ happy.

 

[nwgull]

More well-articulated guesswork from Fabrication. We were 'preparing' a 40m bid two weeks ago.

 

[Lever]

I suspect Levi wants out that basket case club. Imagine the immense pressure he’ll be under there. A mistake or two and those entitled knuckleheads will be booing his every move.

I’d be shocked if the club weren’t holding Chelsea to ransom over Caicedo. I suspect they been told they can have him but we must have Caicedo.

I also suspect RDZ has looked Tony in the eye and told him his feelings about Colwill. Tony will move heaven and earth to keep RDZ happy.

It's difficult to know the dynamics of these relationships. It looks as if Chelsea have 'tightened up' since Pochettino went over to the dark side and joined them. We have no control over the Colwill deal and I honestly think we must be realistic...

 

[Icy Gull]

I’m a fool, I continue to live in hope.

What’s the expression? Keep The Faith? (Although I’m not sure we’ve ever landed a player doing it )

 

[SteveU]

Think it comes down to just how badly Chelsea want Moises, if it’s enough and we hold firm I still believe Levi will be lining up for us against Luton.

 

[Farehamseagull]

We should be insisting on it. If we don't sign him before 30th June then I'm pretty sure we won't be this summer.

Obviously we hope Colwill is pushing for this and I think a few weeks ago when he was caught up with the emotion of European qualification, then I'm sure he really wanted to come to us. I do wonder if maybe a few weeks away from that, confirmation of the appointment of Poch and the platitudes he's been receiving from Chelsea plus training with England and other 'big 6' players may have softened his desire to come here?

 

[WATFORD zero]

I'm getting quite Zen about the whole Colwill/Moises/Summer Transfer window. I think it's a mixture of having complete trust in TB/PBOBE/RDZ and the warm weather

 

[Uh_huh_him]

Colwill is a good player, but still young and learning his trade.
He only has 17 Premier League games.

The hype generated is predominantly relating to the role he played for De Zerbi.
Chelsea fans seem to be buying into the hype and this may not be a good thing for Levi.

 

[Mustafa II]

I would imagine whatever the outcome with Levi, he's being used as a valuable bargaining tool to get as much money for Caicedo as we can.

BHA "We'll give you £40m for Colwill"

CFC "No, he's not for sale, but we'll give you £60m for Caicedo"

BHA "We need a lot more than that. £60m + Colwill sounds fair"

CFC "Colwill is not for sale".

BHA "Fine, £120m for Caicedo"

CFC "FFS".

 

[levs]

My hope on this one is fading as I hoped Chelsea would struggle to offload some of their high wage players, leaving them in a position where they may have to sell Colwill to balance the books.

However, it appears the Saudi clubs have come to their rescue offering silly money for players like koulibaly, lukaku, and ziyech

 

[Gabbiano]

My hope on this one is fading as I hoped Chelsea would struggle to offload some of their high wage players, leaving them in a position where they may have to sell Colwill to balance the books.

However, it appears the Saudi clubs have come to their rescue offering silly money for players like koulibaly, lukaku, and ziyech

Yeah, the Saudis buying up all the Chelsea flops means that they’re not as desperate for cash as they might have been.

Think it’s unlikely this one gets over the line but at least it might drive up the Caicedo price.

And we might get another embarrassing Naylor-Romano spat out of the whole thing.

 

[Springal]

I would imagine whatever the outcome with Levi, he's being used as a valuable bargaining tool to get as much money for Caicedo as we can.

BHA "We'll give you £40m for Colwill"

CFC "No, he's not for sale, but we'll give you £60m for Caicedo"

BHA "We need a lot more than that. £60m + Colwill sounds fair"

CFC "Colwill is not for sale".

BHA "Fine, £120m for Caicedo"

CFC "FFS".

Be interesting to see what Caicedo and his agents think about that tactic though ….!

 

[Left Footer]

My fear is even if Chelsea do agree a fee with us other bigger clubs will take notice and match our offer and also pay Colwill a lot more than we can.
There were rumours of Liverpool being interested a few weeks ago.

I`d be delighted if we did get Levi but realistically expect us to move on to 2nd on the list.

 

[Gabbiano]

I would imagine whatever the outcome with Levi, he's being used as a valuable bargaining tool to get as much money for Caicedo as we can.

BHA "We'll give you £40m for Colwill"

CFC "No, he's not for sale, but we'll give you £60m for Caicedo"

BHA "We need a lot more than that. £60m + Colwill sounds fair"

CFC "Colwill is not for sale".

BHA "Fine, £120m for Caicedo"

CFC "FFS".

If the Enzo saga has taught us anything, it’s that all clubs know to hold Chelsea to ridiculously high prices, and eventually they will cave and pay it to get their target player.

The Caicedo transfer will be a saga.

 

[brighton_tom]

I would imagine whatever the outcome with Levi, he's being used as a valuable bargaining tool to get as much money for Caicedo as we can.

BHA "We'll give you £40m for Colwill"

CFC "No, he's not for sale, but we'll give you £60m for Caicedo"

BHA "We need a lot more than that. £60m + Colwill sounds fair"

CFC "Colwill is not for sale".

BHA "Fine, £120m for Caicedo"

CFC "FFS".

Yep this is how I see it. If we don’t get Levi it’s still useful to have him in the discussion as it allows us to drive up the price of Caicedo. It’s drives home the idea that it’s one or the other, do a deal for Colwill and we’ll be reasonable about Caicedo, or don’t & it’s a very very high fee for him.

 

[nwgull]

My fear is even if Chelsea do agree a fee with us other bigger clubs will take notice and match our offer and also pay Colwill a lot more than we can.
There were rumours of Liverpool being interested a few weeks ago.

I`d be delighted if we did get Levi but realistically expect us to move on to 2nd on the list.

I think we're overrating Colwill at the moment. He's got a lot of potential, but I really don't think he's a 40m player, and I can't see him being on the radar of clubs like Liverpool yet.

 

[Hotchilidog]

Yeah, the Saudis buying up all the Chelsea flops means that they’re not as desperate for cash as they might have been.

Think it’s unlikely this one gets over the line but at least it might drive up the Caicedo price.

And we might get another embarrassing Naylor-Romano spat out of the whole thing.

Apparently all being bought by clubs owned by the PiF who apparently have a stake in the Clearlake company who are part of the ownership group of Chelsea. How convenient.

 

[dwayne]

I think we're overrating Colwill at the moment. He's got a lot of potential, but I really don't think he's a 40m player, and I can't see him being on the radar of clubs like Liverpool yet.

Yer it's incredible we are the most overhyped club in the world at the moment !!
.
Colwill was good but he wasn't that good and he made a few mistakes. And if he was truly that good then why was he not playing more games?

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

My fear is even if Chelsea do agree a fee with us other bigger clubs will take notice and match our offer and also pay Colwill a lot more than we can.
There were rumours of Liverpool being interested a few weeks ago.

I`d be delighted if we did get Levi but realistically expect us to move on to 2nd on the list.

The player has to want to go to the other club.

That's why we're bidding, because Levi and his agent probably indicated if we could get it done he'd love to make a permanent move to us.

Not to any other clubs.

 

[WATFORD zero]

I hope we don't have to go to our 2nd on the list, look what happened last summer with Cucur.... Oh, as you were