Reports have now shared what Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp said to Moises Caicedo just before he joined Chelsea last summer.
According to The Telegraph, the German was expecting that his side had done enough to secure the signing of the former Brighton man before the Blues confirmed the deal.
Liverpool and Chelsea are set to meet tonight in the Premier League in a game many are seeing as a dress rehearsal for next month’s EFL Cup final.
Caicedo is a player who could very easily have found himself on either side of this game, with both clubs interested in signing him last summer.
He made his way to Stamford Bridge, where he has been improving every week to become a crucial member of their side.
It has now been claimed though that Klopp was actually confident a deal was done, with the report stating that he sent him a message saying he was looking forward to seeing him.
Klopp text to Caicedo
In an article for The Independent, the Liverpool boss spoke about the situation that saw him eventually miss out on signing him as well as Romeo Lavia.
He said: “The whole market for No 6s went up. Two No 6s left our club. The market heated up. We thought we could maybe do Caicedo. We’d already done Mac Allister before. So we went in, he had an emotional agreement already with Chelsea and Pochettino. Then Lavia had his own reasons. So we were there.
“Then we found our top solution. That’s what I meant [when I said], ‘we are lucky’. We found Wataru. All the time in our mind we had Stefan [Bajcetic]. It was not clear at that moment he was so badly injured he could not feature at all. We already knew Macca could play the position. Dom was always on my radar.
“If one of the £100m [targets] had worked, there’s no chance to do another. So that door was open. That’s how it went. That’s what I meant when I said we are so lucky. Everything in the ‘if not’ scenario worked out.”
Chelsea fans will be hoping for a big performance from the 22-year-old tonight as they look to take something away from home against the league leaders
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