Newcastle United want Moises Caicedo but Brighton and Hove Albion are only willing to sell the midfielder for around £85million.
The Magpies have enjoyed a fantastic start to the season and look to be serious contenders for European football.
Money has of course helped but Eddie Howe has done a remarkable job when it comes to improving players like Joelinton and Miguel Almiron.
Newcastle may well fancy a huge signing in January to help really push on in the second half of the season and a midfielder appears to be wanted.
Newcastle United want Moises Caicedo
The Mirror claim that Newcastle fancy signing Brighton and Hove Albion midfielder Caicedo.
The Magpies have raided Brighton twice in 2022.
First it was defender Dan Burn as he joined in January before Dan Ashworth ended up heading to Newcastle as director of football.
Caicedo could make it a hat-trick for Newcastle but he won’t come cheap.
Brighton would allegedly want around £85million for Caicedo just two years after paying around £4.5million to sign him from Independiente del Valle.
That’s a staggering £80million profit before any sell-on clauses, with Independiente del Valle surely having a chunk of any future fee.
The report adds that Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester United are also likely to enter the race to sign Caicedo in a big-money deal.
The 20-year-old has been simply outstanding for Brighton and was hailed as ‘incredible’ by Adam Webster last season.
Caicedo has taken that form into this season too and was fantastic in Brighton’s engine room against Chelsea on Saturday.
£85million would be a huge outlay for Newcastle but they have shown their pulling power by signing Kieran Trippier, Bruno Guimaraes and Alexander Isak.
Few would want to face a midfield of Bruno Guimaraes, Joelinton and Moises Caicedo any time soon and Ashworth may well hope that relations with Brighton are still strong enough to engineer a 2023 deal.
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