🚨 EOTK Insider with Neil Jones: Lavia latest, Liverpool should ask Madrid transfer question, Ligue 1 destroyer everyone in France is talking about, John Henry at Anfield and much more!

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[From left to right: Ibrahim Sangare, Carlo Ancelotti with Real Madrid stars and Romeo Lavia]

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Today’s top stories:

• Chelsea interest in Romeo Lavia raises an interesting point about the player

• The defensive midfielders Liverpool could still look to sign this summer…

• And further updates on Aurelien Tchouameni, Ibrahim Sangare, John Henry and more!

Moises Caicedo

Moises Caicedo is going to Chelsea - that has pretty much been confirmed, if not yet by either of the clubs involved. In one way, the whole saga is really complicated and in another, it’s quite straightforward. Chelsea have obviously been leading this race for a very long time. They’ve been putting in what you can imagine is an awful lot of groundwork with the agent, the player and Brighton.

Liverpool, meanwhile, have got into a situation that has escalated as the summer has gone on, where they desperately need a player of that type and calibre. Liverpool ultimately lost players they didn’t expect to lose in Jordan Henderson and Fabinho. I think they sniffed an opportunity with Caicedo whilst Chelsea were still yet to agree a deal. I think they were probably given some encouragement by Brighton, or perhaps by someone else, that Chelsea were struggling to agree a deal and that there was an opening for Liverpool to come in and pose a question.