The international break is always a nice moment to take stock of what’s going on at Chelsea, both as a team and individually.
There have been some good showings from Blues in these first few months of the season, but the player of the campaign so far has to be Moises Caicedo. He’s been the most consistent and has also had the highest highs, peaking with his superb showing against Tottenham where he basically ran the game himself.
Pat Nevin has been watching the games just like us, and his take was that one of the Premier League’s most expensive ever signings had doubled his value since then.
Nevin on £200m Caicedo fee
Moises Caicedo celebrates banging goal.
Moises Caicedo celebrates banging goal. (Photo by Harry Murphy/Getty Images)
“Moises Caicedo is capable of playing in any team because he’s more than a destructive player, he’s an absolute genius defensively. Yes, he would interest Real Madrid, but I can’t see the numbers working. I’m struggling to see the numbers working,” Nevin said in quotes picked up by Goal.com.
“Because if he’s bought for £100m, or £115m depending on what you hear about the add-ons, etc., how much is he going to have to spend to get him to give Chelsea a viable profit that they don’t feel as if they’ve lost one of their best, if not their best, player?”
“You’re talking 200 odd million. Unless you’re a forward scoring 30, 40 goals a season, that market, I’m not sure about. Even though Enzo Fernandez and Caicedo were both bought for over 100 million and I have to say, it shocked a lot of us, that amount of money spent in that position. But to go further than that, I don’t know.”
In other news…
Alejandro Garnacho took full advantage of Chelsea’s run of games between international breaks, looking effective after getting up to speed physically and nailing down a left wing spot. The stats are all very positive.
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