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Moises Caicedo\u2019s agent admits Liverpool represented a \u2018more stable project\u2019 than Chelsea and says Jurgen Klopp\u2019s personal approach left the midfielder \u2018dizzy\u2019.<\/p>\n
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The Ecuador international was at the centre of a transfer tug-of-war between Liverpool and Chelsea in the final month of the summer transfer window and was granted permission from Brighton to undergo a medical with Klopp\u2019s side after their \u00a3110 million offer was accepted.<\/p>\n
However, Chelsea were given time to submit an improved bid and ended up agreeing a British-record \u00a3115m fee with Brighton.<\/p>\n
Caicedo\u2019s representative, Manuel Sierra, insists the midfielder was intent on joining Chelsea due to their persistent interest since the January window but concedes that Liverpool\u2019s proposal was difficult to ignore.<\/p>\n
When asked about Caicedo\u2019s transfer saga involving Chelsea and Liverpool in the summer, Sierra told Futbol sin Cassette: \u2018It\u2019s true that the Arsenal thing in January was an offer that, at time, didn\u2019t seem insurmountable, Moises fought for his dream at that moment, maybe it wasn\u2019t the time as I\u2019ve always said because it\u2019s true that with Brighton there was always talk about the issue of leaving, since we signed our representation contract.<\/p>\n
\u2018There was always talk of leaving in the summer market, of course in those 10 days according to the strict representation contract, we came to the fore to negotiate. There was no time but I think it was a moment that we had to try, we had the verbal commitment at all times that it was good that they wanted to improve the conditions for Moises, that they wanted him to be calm so that he could play the rest of the season and that in the summer he was going to leave.<\/p>\n
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\u2018It\u2019s true that Chelsea were always there since January, what happened is that in January they couldn\u2019t pay, they couldn\u2019t go crazy because they had to go with one or the other, they couldn\u2019t go with both of them and I didn\u2019t know what Brighton were going to ask for, Brighton were not going to sell even for \u00a31 billion.<\/p>\n
\u2018The issue of not going to Liverpool instead of Chelsea was also very questioned, the offers were similar in every way, the issue is that due to a question of values and a question of principles and of giving the floor to someone, when Liverpool\u2019s offer arrived, Brighton were asked for time so that Chelsea could match it, they did that, they surpassed it and he ended up at Chelsea because he had given the word to Chelsea and he told them for quite some time.<\/p>\n
\u2018Liverpool appeared very late and with a word given to Chelsea, with everything agreed, it was said that Moises Caicedo himself was already training in a Chelsea camp [before officially signing]. Let\u2019s be clear, he never did anything while he had contact with Brighton, the only thing he did was go to the locker room to pick up everything and he told them clearly, \u2018I\u2019m not going to play here again\u2019, to make it clear. It was the only way to make it clear because in the end you always talk to a teammate, the teammate goes to the coach or goes to someone from the board and they say, \u2018no, there is a possibility that Moises will stay\u2019, time goes by and that\u2019s what we didn\u2019t want so a month later, when he came back from the situation in New York, he was there for the pre-season with Brighton, I travelled there and met with the owner of Brighton and the sporting director and there between the four of us we talked about something that we later saw a lot of reality. This drastic decision was made because it was the only way to be able to leave.<\/p>\n
\u2018Liverpool were always interested. We always had meetings during those months between January and May but since May we never heard from them again and of course we were surprised that suddenly they appeared with something [an offer] that they said that they couldn\u2019t do.<\/p>\n
\u2018The first thing we are told is, \u2018tomorrow you have to go to Liverpool until you pass a medical examination\u2019. Of course, what is our reaction going to be if we have not negotiated, we have not spoken, we have not seen anything since May.<\/p>\n
\u2018The problem was Brighton but when they tell us tomorrow, \u2018you can go to Liverpool\u2019, well of course the reaction is fine but the funny thing is that they didn\u2019t tell us, they told us to undergo a medical with Liverpool without having an agreement, without having said, \u2018yes\u2019, even the club wrote to Moises, \u2018with permission from Brighton\u2019, and so on, but our phone conversations were clear at all times, we were clear, as long as Chelsea offered the same conditions that Liverpool could do with Brighton, and as I say they surpassed it, so there was no complaint.<\/p>\n
\u2018It is very complicated, imagine that Jurgen Klopp is writing to you, that Liverpool is calling you, we are talking about something very big, that is, one of the best teams in the world, just like Chelsea, and with a more established and more stabilised project than what Chelsea have today, which is a very ambitious project with a view to two, three years ahead.<\/p>\n
\u2018When Liverpool came and approached in that way, obviously Moises gets dizzy, I get dizzy myself, but Chelsea were by our side at all times asking us to go, they wanted an hour so that we could tell Brighton, so that they could match the offer and they gave them an hour and it ended in two days of negotiation.\u2019<\/p>\n