Should Brighton let Moises Caicedo go for less than £100m – and concentrate on bigger picture?

But with the ‘will he, won’t he?’ saga continuing to drag, is now the time when the Albion say enough is enough, reach some form of compromise with Chelsea over the transfer fee, then wipe their mouths and move on?

As I alluded to last week, the player’s body language when receiving his two awards at the delayed players’ dinner last Tuesday spoke volumes.

The already-murky waters were made even more unclear a couple of days later with a press release from the club saying the player would not be sold in the transfer window and would remain an Albion player for the foreseeable future.

Fast forward to the weekend and Caicedo was pulled out of the final pre-season friendly due to a slight hamstring issue, and in the post match interview a clearly perplexed Roberto De Zerbi revealed the uncertainty of the whole situation.

Unfortunately, this is a by product of how far we’ve come as a club in a relatively short space of time. The bottom line is that it’s all about the money and how much the player’s agent can extract from the whole deal.

Will Caicedo better himself as a player by moving to Chelsea? Questionable, but will he and his ‘connections’ benefit financially? Absolutely.