Declan Rice to blame for Chelsea struggling to sign star – Fabrizio Romano

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Declan Rice is partly to blame for Chelsea’s struggles to complete the signing of Brighton.

That’s according to Fabrizio Romano, who gave his latest update on the saga.

Chelsea have been in negotiations to sign Caicedo for several weeks now, having made the Ecuadorian their number one target in midfield.

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The Blues have already agreed personal terms with Caicedo, who wants a move to Stamford Bridge.

However, they have struggled to agree a transfer fee with Brighton, who are asking a price similar to the triple-figure sum Arsenal paid West Ham for Declan Rice.

© ProShots – Moises Caicedo has reached a personal agreement with Chelsea What did Romano say?

This is an important week for Chelsea and their contacts on Moises Caicedo, Romano wrote on CaughtOffside.

It’s not an easy case to report as a journalist, because there are no official offers yet, it’s a daily verbal exchange between the two clubs, a direct conversation, but it’s in progress. and this week they will be working on the case again.

The player is still hoping and pushing to join Chelsea, and already has an agreement on personal terms, so that won’t be a problem. The player said yes, and now it’s on the clubs, and Mauricio Pochettino hopes to have Caicedo as soon as possible.

But it’s not easy because looking at the Declan Rice deal, Brighton think they can get something like 90-100m.

Chelsea want Caicedo to link up with Enzo Fernandez in the center of the field and are undergoing a midfield revolution after losing to NGolo Kante, Mateo Kovacic and Ruben Loftus-Cheek in recent weeks.

Caicedo close to Chelsea in January

Caicedo was the subject of a standoff between Chelsea and Arsenal in the final days of the January transfer window.

Both London sides have made offers for the Ecuadorian midfielder, but Brighton have rejected all offers.

Caicedo tried to force a transfer by publicly asking that he be allowed to leave.

This led to Brighton dropping Caicedo from the squad for a time.

In the end, Caicedo stayed on until the end of the season as Brighton qualified for Europe for the first time in their history.

But Caicedo will almost certainly leave this summer for a big club.

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