Moisés Caicedo was signed by Chelsea , who paid Brighton the sum of 146 million dollars, the most expensive of all time for an Ecuadorian player and the fifth in the entire history of football.
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The transfer was multimillion-dollar, as expected. The highest of an Ecuadorian soccer player. The most expensive in the Premier League and one of the highest in history, only surpassed by four others : Neymar, Kylian Mbappé, Ousmane Dembelé and Philippe Coutinho.
The first-line midfielder had an extraordinary 2022-2023 season. He was the best of his club in the Premier and one of the best in the tournament. Last January, his share was priced at USD 75 million, but six months later it reached USD 140 million.
With Moisés Caicedo in midfield, Brighton qualified, for the first time in history, for the UEFA Europa League.
With training and a past at Independiente del Valle, 'Niño Moi' arrived at Brighton in the Premier League in 2021 after paying USD 5 million. The striped team kept 20% of its sports rights , a percentage that is capitalized today and will receive almost 30 million for this high-profile transfer.
Moisés Caicedo, the most expensive Ecuadorian of all time.
The transfer of Moisés Caicedo is overwhelmingly higher than the 25.1 million dollars that Manchester United paid to Wigan for the transfer of Antonio Valencia in 2009. In the Red Devils, 'Toño' played for 10 seasons. This transfer, for many years, was the highest for an Ecuadorian soccer player.
In August 2021, defender Piero Hincapié arrived at Bayer Leverkusen to play in the Bundesliga from Talleres, in Córdoba (Argentina). The German club paid USD 8.6 million. Two years later, his sale priced it at USD 38 million.
A close figure, USD 35 million is the price of the transfer of Pervis Estupiñán, one of Brighton's permanent starters due to his great performance. At the end of the season he made up the ideal 11.
In August 2022, 'Las Gaviotas' bought the left-back's transfer to Villarreal of Spain. They paid USD 18 million, plus USD 5 million in fees. It was a great deal for the Spanish team since it had invested USD 17.7 million two years earlier when acquiring its sports rights.
In 2014, Énner Valencia moved to West Ham United for USD 17.7 million. A year earlier, the historic scorer of the Ecuadorian national team moved from Emelec to Pachuca for USD 5 million. The three goals he scored in the World Cup in Brazil made his transfer price grow.
Last month, on July 23, 2023, winger Gonzalo Plata left Real Valladolid of the Spanish League and moved to Al-Sadd of Qatar for USD 13.1 million.
The scorer Felipe Caicedo became a forward for Al Jazeera of the United Arab Emirates in 2014. The Ecuadorian left Lokomotiv of Russia for USD 11 million.
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