“Arsenal’s offer? It’s enough if they want half the player”

The Ecuadorian Moises Caicedo he was about to sign him Arsenal last winter market. The young 21-year-old midfielder came to publicly announce his intention to leave the Brighton & Hove Albion after the club rejected the ‘Gunner’s’ first offer of 70 million euros. The current leader of the Premier League reached 80, but the ‘seagulls’ did not give up and Mikel Arteta have to live with the arrival of jorginhowhich has lost popularity in recent months in Chelsea.

“It’s only enough if they want half the player,” said the CEO of Brighton, Paul Barberoin a podcast interview’The Good Game‘. “Jokes aside, we never give figures. It’s funny when we see them in the media because it’s not from us,” added the seagulls’ chief executive when asked about the proposal of the Arsenal.

Renewed until 2027

Caicedowho was sidelined from the team until he clarified his situation, returned to training at the end of the January window and in March he renewed his contract with the ‘seagulls’ until June 2027.

One who moved to north London in January was the Belgian Leandro Trossardone of the best players in Brighton early in the season. “In the case of Leandro, he has done a fantastic job for the club for a few years and was our top scorer for the first half of the season. But he is 28 years old and his contract is about to expire. If a big club, one more club big wanted to take it, as long as the price is right for us, as long as the contract was right for him and as long as the timing was right for us… We were open to negotiating,” he explained. . Barber.

in the emirates, Trossard He continued to rail at a high level and became a regular in the lineups of Artetascoring one goal and providing six assists in 12 games he played with Arsenal in all competitions.