Moises Caicedo is a good player, but Liverpool has discovered ‘the next’ version of the Manchester United target, who also happens to be older and far cheaper
‘Enzo, the Earth’Despite having earlier bids knocked down, Arsenal believed they had a free run at Rice, but City’s choice to pursue him could cost them their top transfer target.
‘City already own the British transfer record, after spending £100 million on Jack Grealish from Aston Villa two years ago – and are set to equal it again in their pursuit of Rice,’ writes David McDonnell for the Daily Mirror.
Chelsea deserves credit for skillfully manipulating the books to the point that Enzo Fernandez no longer exists.
Moises wicker basket
With this one, Mediawatch is thrilled to reveal the finding of a transfer window holy grail:
That’s correct. The Liverpool Echo has finally pulled the trigger. We have a ‘next’ player that is older than the current iteration. What a day it has been. What a scene.
But, despite being six months older and having 71 appearances in Europe’s top five leagues to Caicedo’s 45 for Brighton, how does Manu Kone qualify as the ‘next Moises Caicedo’?
To be fair, he absolutely can. However, Johann Lepenant, Hugo Magnetti, Samuel Moutoussamy, Rominigue Kouame, Hicham Boudaoui, Mohamed Camara, and Jean-Victor Makengo are eight players below compatriot next Moises Caicedos.
They are all legends.
And what about Liverpool’s ‘two significant advantages’ in terms of pursuing Kone?
First and foremost, sporting director Jorg Schmadkte has a “vast network of contacts and expertise in the Bundesliga.” Which no other club possesses. And if they do, Liverpool’s vast network of relationships and expertise in the Bundesliga clearly means more. Because it can unearth hidden jewels that Borussia Monchengladbach is willing to pay £35 million for.
For this reason, it is unclear whether Kone and Konate played together on a regular basis at Paris FC. They were both on the club’s books in their youth system between Kone’s arrival in 2012 and Konate’s departure in 2014, so they were there “at the same time.” But, given that the latter, two years older than the former, was 14 when he left for Sochaux, it seems unlikely that they a) were teammates for an extended period of time, if at all, and b) crossed paths frequently enough to warrant ‘consulting’ Konate about what someone was like as a literal child a decade ago.
But, hey, Liverpool has ‘the next Moises Caicedo‘ pretty much locked up. Please quit wondering why they’re there.
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