While offering 110 million for Caicedo, Liverpool pay incredible amount to sign Xabi Alonso in 2004

A few days ago Liverpool's exorbitant offer to Brighton for Moises Caicedo was unveiled and it seems not to have interested the South American player as he would be inclined to play for Chelsea despite Liverpool making a bigger first offer, and this makes Liverpool think about other possibilities to find a replacement for Fabinho in their midfield both in the local and foreign market.

Chelsea have made a huge investment since the start of the year with the signing of Enzo Fernandez for a record breaking $120 million for the league and for Argentine players, and now it looks like they will do the same with Moises Caicedo, this should be alarm bells for FSG as they will have to start making big offers for their next reinforcements as they have not been able to close any more signings after Dominik Szoboszlai and Jürgen Klopp is certainly in need of a holding midfielder.

A little less than 20 years ago Liverpool signed midfielder Xabi Alonso from Real Sociedad, after great performances with Real Sociedad and being ranked as the best Spanish player by Don Balon magazine, and for this he cost 16 million euros, no doubt today it does not seem to be such a high amount, but for the beginning of the season he will have to pay 16 million euros.

A difficult start to the season for the Reds

On Sunday Liverpool will visit Chelsea and it will undoubtedly be a complicated game for the Reds as they will not be able to count on a fully reinforced team and with injuries, so Klopp will have to use improvised variants with a renewed idea of play, no doubt this represents a big problem, as Chelsea has been reinforced very well and continues to reinforce, so Liverpool will have to think about their next signings as soon as possible to not continue affecting the team during the beginning of the season.