Chelsea Fury, Liverpool’s Camara Plan & Richarlison Exit | NEWSLETTER
Chelsea’s move for Lamine Camara collapsed in dramatic fashion on deadline day, and Liverpool are now a club to watch for the Monaco midfielder in 2027. Ben Jacobs breaks down exactly how Chelsea’s €55m agreement fell apart, why Folarin Balogun’s failed Everton move changed Monaco’s plans, and where Liverpool stand after making their interest in Camara clear. There’s also the latest on Richarlison after Tottenham left him out of their Premier League squad, Jamie Vardy’s options as a free agent, Everton’s striker search and the remaining business in the Turkish, Saudi and Brazilian markets. Chapters: 00:00 Latest Deals After Deadline Day 01:20 Liverpool Agree £5m Deal for 18-Year-Old Talent 01:44 How Chelsea’s Lamine Camara Deal Began to Unravel 04:55 Monaco Pull the Plug on Chelsea’s Camara Move 05:58 Balogun Refuses Everton in Huge Deadline Day Twist 06:56 Liverpool Make Their 2027 Camara Interest Clear 08:23 Jamie Vardy’s Offers and What Happens Next 10:18 Richarlison Exit Latest as Tottenham Push for Move Chelsea Liverpool TransferNews Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/user/GiveMeSport Follow GiveMeSport! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GiveMeSport/ X: https://twitter.com/GiveMeSport Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/givemesport/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@givemesport Our Website: https://www.givemesport.com/ For copyright matters please contact us at: legal@givemesport.com
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Hello and welcome along to the latest of my GMS newsletters. Ben Jacobs here on YouTube and of course sign up and get all of this information straight in your inbox. A few windows still open. Clock is ticking at the time of recording on the Turkish window. Saudi market as well still active as well. And we'll whiz through a couple of deals for you. First of all, Shim wreck has joined Celtic on a season-long loan from Chelsea and he's signed a new contract as well until 2031 prior to making that move. And James Tavernier has formalized his move to Maccabi Tel Aviv on a one-year contract with a one-year option. Then an exclusive from yesterday from the Saudi market and outgoing Stefan Keller has left Al Ittihad to join SK Beveren in Belgium and that one is a season-long loan as well. And Al Ittifaq are trying to sign the Portuguese defender Diogo Leite who at the moment is a free agent after leaving Union Berlin. But Ittifaq have made a final financial proposal which needs approval from the central deal makers within the league. And if they don't get that soon, they could well move on to other targets. So those are some of the recent done deals or live ones. Liverpool have also pre-agreed a deal to sign Dylan N'Guessan from Saint-Étienne. 5 million fixed fee and the 18-year-old will officially join in January and he will be loaned to Brest this season. But Liverpool are going to review that mid-season and decide whether that's going to be a half season or a full season loan. So still bits going on in the market. I want to come back to the Folarin Balogun and Kamara saga though and give you the back story here and tell you a little bit about what could be next. So deadline day, Everton agree a deal with Monaco for Folarin Balogun, 40 million pounds. Monaco tell Chelsea they can't sign Lamine Camara. Chelsea had two bids rejected, 45 million euros and 50 million euros. Then, Balogun flies over, there's issues with the medical, flash forwards to the later part of the day, and Balogun's switch to Everton is in doubt. So, Chelsea call again on Lamine Camara, and Monaco say, "Okay, we'll sell for 55 million euros." A good price for Chelsea, because Monaco had been quoting 70 million throughout the course of the summer. And Monaco got to deadline day, and they needed a sale, financially speaking, and that's why both Balogun and Camara were topics. But, Monaco's clear preference was to sell Balogun and keep Camara, and that was communicated in the earlier part of the day to Chelsea. Then, after the medical complications of Balogun, Thiago Scuro, the Monaco CEO, decided he was going to sell to Chelsea for 55 million euros. So, Chelsea go to formalize that deal, six-year contract and a one-year option. Now, Scuro did a press conference and said the player was happy to stay at Monaco, but that's not the full picture. My understanding is that Camara said to Scuro and Monaco, "I'll be ever professional, but I think that deal is good for the club and good for me." And he insisted he would like to leave and move to Chelsea, and ultimately be a player in the Premier League. So, Scuro's comments referring to how Camara was comfortable staying at Monaco don't give the true picture. The player was professional, but still insistent that he wanted to move to Stamford Bridge. Then, after Everton made further checks and had further conversations, they renegotiated the Balogun package, still around 40 million, but slightly heavier on the add-ons. And this is very normal because if the player has an injury and you start to wonder whether it's going to affect the deal, you often make more of the add-ons and less of the fixed fee and theme the add-ons to make sure that they're framed around fitness, games, appearances. And in doing so, if the player stays fit and ultimately turns out, then the deal is pretty much as was, 40 million, because often those add-ons that you add are relatively easily achieved because they're contingent on a certain number of appearances, working on the presumption that the player is going to be fit. And if the player doesn't realize those add-ons, then you're glad that you made the overall package, even if the number stays roughly the same, more add-on focused. So, Everton decided to do that and Monaco agreed. And now we're getting pretty late in the day on deadline day. Everton signed, Monaco signed, and it was left to Balogun to sign. And Monaco were confident that this deal was now back on and was a lock, so they pulled the plug on Lamine Camara. And Chelsea were fuming, still are fuming. And the reason why is because they were led to believe that Balogun, Camara were not linked. So, once Monaco gave their word, Camara's on, regardless of what happened with Balogun, Chelsea thought it was totally in their control to formalize the deal. Monaco refused to sign a deal sheet because they were confident at that point that Balogun was going to happen. And once they got the Everton signature and their signature, they pulled the plug on Kamara and there was no time to extend the Kamara transfer or get a deal sheet in. And then we got the twist. Balogun, having seen the whole drama and question marks over his fitness, which he disagreed with, decided, even though he was at Everton's training facility, that he was not prepared to sign for Everton. And as a consequence, the window shut and Balogun remains at Monaco and Kamara remains at Monaco. Now, Balogun, it'll be interesting to see if Monaco offer him a route because they still ultimately need money and quickly. If not now, it will likely be in January. And Kamara, equally as intriguing in 2027. Because Chelsea and Monaco now have very damaged relationship and I'd be surprised if Chelsea came back in 2027 and offered Monaco the same money and certainly no intent to go back up to the original asking price of 20 million euros. And this might therefore open the door to other clubs. Coupled with the fact that in 2027, some of Chelsea's other midfield targets like Alex Scott and Adam Wharton might be available anyway. And Liverpool, as I exclusively revealed on deadline day, are the club to watch. Because in the build-up to deadline day and on deadline day, Liverpool were calling and calling and calling and saying to the camp of Kamara, "If you wait, we'll be there in 2027." Because Kamara is relatively high in Liverpool's thinking, but they were never going to move as long as Alexis MacAllister was at the club. So, a lot of people ask me, "Did these Liverpool calls influence in any way the derailing of the deal? Were Monaco holding out for Liverpool next year and for a higher fee? Was the player holding out for Liverpool? Nothing like that. Liverpool did not interfere with the saga relating to Monaco, Camara, and Chelsea. But, Liverpool, with their market intel, knew that Chelsea were pushing, and they were telling the player or his camp, "If you wait, then very likely we will explore this deal in 2027." So, a very dramatic end to deadline day with all manner of twists and turns. And now Everton are looking for a source of goals. It remains to be seen whether they enter the market for free agents or not, or they just bide their time until January. What I can tell you is Everton were offered Anthony Martial. At the time of recording, I'm not aware that they've bitten. English media reports have suggested Jamie Vardy as well. All I can tell you at this stage about Jamie Vardy is that he had a proposal from Wrexham. Sheffield Wednesday were trying, but they have financial difficulties. Leicester were not into re-sign Vardy, but there was a point in time where he did a medical checkup at Leicester's Seagrave training facility. But, Vardy was never going to make a decision on deadline day. He wants to take his time and ultimately assess where the best move is for him, and free agents are not bound by any deadline day. So, Vardy has had dozens of offers, according to my information. Let's not forget there was even an approach from Sao Paulo in Brazil. Some of those offers have been rejected. Some of those offers for Vardy are still live, and my expectation is that he's in no rush to make a knee-jerk decision. And that's quite smart, because once the window shuts, clubs maybe that haven't got a striker might suddenly decide that they are going to offer Jamie Vardy a short-term contract. And there's loads of other free agents, by the way, available. Georginio Wijnaldum, lots of links with Chelsea, downplayed by club sources. Real Salt Lake in MLS, and I can also tell you one other MLS club, and the Saudi market, all alert to Georginio Wijnaldum. Wijnaldum didn't really want to leave Saudi, but Al Ittihad didn't have the budget to renew him. So, he has been assessing if he can get another Saudi option, and as I say, MLS a possibility as well. And Karim Benzema, don't forget, is a free agent, too, and is determining if he's going to take another club or retire. Al Shabab in Saudi Arabia have made a proposal there. So, still quite a lot going on in the market, around free agents, around Saudi, Turkish market, and I'll have more for you in the next few days on Richarlison once we understand what's going on there. It's so close to the close of the Turkish window that I won't go into too much detail in this particular video, but it's clear Trabzonspor made an approach to the player. And Tottenham have removed Richarlison from their Premier League squad. So, they want an exit. At the time I'm recording this, direction of travel is still not clear because yesterday Trabzonspor's valuation was lower than Tottenham are looking for. The Brazilian market will stay open as well. And although I'm not aware yet of any conversations between Richarlison and Tottenham about a mutual termination, it can't be discounted because if windows start shutting, that's a possibility in the same way that Raheem Sterling mutually terminated his contract with Chelsea, and Conor Coady mutually terminated his contract with Wrexham to allow him to take up a coaching role with England under 21s working under Lee Carsley. So, it is a possibility sometimes with these types of deals when they don't happen on the terms that the player and club are looking for, that a player could, in theory, enter into free agency and then ultimately work out his next step from there. And that also happened with Paul Pogba, of course, who is a free agent now as well. So, let's see what Tottenham, Trabzonspor, and Richarlison decide to do. There's only a few hours left at the time I'm recording this of the Turkish window. But that's it from myself, Ben Jacobs. Thank you so much for tuning in. Newsletter back regularly between now and the end of the year. Market madness coming next week as we look back on a crazy window. But for now, thanks for watching.