[Albion] Where is Moises going? (Chelsea - 14/08/2023)

[Thunder Bolt]

When we have finally finished enjoying Chelsea's well deserved misery, we need to face up to the fact that we ultimately lost a superb player.

I hope some of the Caicedo money at least will help to rebuild our midfield and keep us in the top ten....

I’m sure RDZ, Barber and Weir are working on it.

 

[dwayne]

Dare I say it, but Moises is a little bit overrated, LOL.

Great player for his age, great stats. Great defensive force and will be missed in the squad.

But...

£110 MILLION

He's good, but he's not THAT good.

Liverpool and Chelsea are mugs. Thanks Fabrizio Romano and the Twitter crowd for making us STINKING rich.

This is the greatest con of the century. The joys of having a pro poker player as a chairman.

Hope he does well, I'm sure he will, but he's not the next Ronaldo/Messi.

Let's give him a round of applause when we next see him for making us so much cash. You never know, we might get him back on a freebie in a few years time.

Gonna be very interesting.

If he keeps the same form that he did for us then he's world class.

But he wasn't great at beerschot or dare I say really didn't stand out at the world cup.

 

[Southern Scouse]

Dare I say it, but Moises is a little bit overrated, LOL.

Great player for his age, great stats. Great defensive force and will be missed in the squad.

But...

£110 MILLION

He's good, but he's not THAT good.

Liverpool and Chelsea are mugs. Thanks Fabrizio Romano and the Twitter crowd for making us STINKING rich.

This is the greatest con of the century. The joys of having a pro poker player as a chairman.

Hope he does well, I'm sure he will, but he's not the next Ronaldo/Messi.

Let's give him a round of applause when we next see him for making us so much cash. You never know, we might get him back on a freebie in a few years time.

Wow, really?
I find that an unbelievable post. I’m n sure you would have loved him to stay, as I would have for a couple of years but that, really?
FSG (I’m not a massive fan) do at least have a philosophy, that does not include throwing endless amounts of borrowed money around. They have spent £175m, on a new midfield, which once it’s bedded in will be one of the best in the world. In 6/7 years on they will be worth more than what they paid for them, that’s their model.
Buy the best, young player’s available. Keep them for 5/6 years, win trophies (Hopefully) and sell to recoup or make money once they pass their peak.
It is not Tony’s model, but it works as well.
Plus, keeping the chavs quiet for a few days is pure gold.

 

[SeaGullBum]

Deary me, Chelsea are melts.

 

[Simster]

Better close the Thames Barrier those plastic Chelsea fans tears will biblical..

Cry me a river …..the ‘hostage’ has been freed !! Hahahahaha bad luck Chelsea chavs

The Thames Barrier goes nowhere near Lagos.

 

[raymondo]

Well done...agent AliMac

 

[swindonseagull]

The Thames Barrier goes nowhere near Lagos.

It will be a big flood !!

 

[A1X]

Let’s all spare a thought for Fabrizio Romano at this time. Spent all January trying to make Caicedo to Arsenal happen, failed. Then spent all summer trying to make his move to Chelsea happen, and also failed.

 

[raymondo]

Great that we got the fee, but the disrespect he has shown us now, twice, deserves the same treatment.

I really think he's being lead by his agents...but his memoirs will tell us

 

[GrossTurn]

When we have finally finished enjoying Chelsea's well deserved misery, we need to face up to the fact that we ultimately lost a superb player.

I hope some of the Caicedo money at least will help to rebuild our midfield and keep us in the top ten....

If the club had a plan for how we were going to get £110m (!) for him, you can be pretty sure they have a plan for how we’ll attempt to plug a Moises size gap in midfield, be it a combination of internal solutions or an incoming replacement.

I just can’t be sure it’ll be in place by 3pm tomorrow..

 

[Rookie]

Let’s all spare a thought for Fabrizio Romano at this time. Spent all January trying to make Caicedo to Arsenal happen, failed. Then spent all summer trying to make his move to Chelsea happen, and also failed.

Don’t forget Cucharella to Man City as well. It’s almost as if people should ignore him

 

[HP Seagull]

Don’t forget that, despite the earlier reports, Romano said there was no way it would take any more than £70/80m!

 

[Frutos]

The moral of this is very simple - never, ever try to call Tony Bloom's bluff.

 

[Clive Walker]

If the club had a plan for how we were going to get £110m (!) for him, you can be pretty sure they have a plan for how we’ll attempt to plug a Moises size gap in midfield, be it a combination of internal solutions or an incoming replacement.

I just can’t be sure it’ll be in place by 3pm tomorrow..

Suggest it will be weeks rather than days. We don’t have a history of getting deals done quickly. Many reason for that abd we tend to get recruitment very right so all due diligence takes time. We also don’t have the pulling power of Liverpool who can operate very quickly as seen in the last 24hrs.

 

[Whitechapel]

Wait he’s going to Liverpool? That can’t be right. I thought Chelsea massively overpaid for Sanchez because he was part of the Caicedo deal.

 

[Seasider78]

Winstanley will be dreading his boss calling this morning

 

[Hugo Rune]

Let’s all spare a thought for Fabrizio Romano at this time. Spent all January trying to make Caicedo to Arsenal happen, failed. Then spent all summer trying to make his move to Chelsea happen, and also failed.

And that little shit Ben Jacobs aka ‘the Chelsea mouthpiece’ who is STILL struggling to accept Chelsea won’t get their man!!

 

[Hugo Rune]

The moral of this is very simple - never, ever try to call Tony Bloom's bluff.

I’m hoping the deal was agreed 100% independently of Caicedo’s agents and they get 0% of the fee.

 

[trueblue]

Fair play to the 19 people who said he'd go to Liverpool (unless they were all votes from yesterday )

Still staggered that more than 300 people thought he wasn't going anywhere. I mentioned this a few weeks ago that there are some people on NSC smoking strong stuff; totally bonkers.

Don't do drugs, kids

We may not have been as far from that scenario as you suggest. Little sign that Chelsea weren't going to stump up the required money and I doubt Liverpool would have done either if it hadn't been for the Saudi Arabian disruption coming out of nowhere.

 

[mile oak]

111m far too cheap. Liverpool going for the title. Have we peeked? Gutted, but equally what a privilige thrill he wore an Albion shirt and I have seen him in the flesh not just on TV play world class. Absolute delight, but Im still gutted as a fan I wanna see footballers, but acknowledge as a gambler Bloom keeps picking the right numbers at the roulette table of recruitment. UTA