Both teams are desperately lacking a holding midfielder with discipline and this encounter was fun but worryingly open
If, as free-market orthodoxy tells us, price is dependent on the interaction between demand and supply, Brighton and Southampton should probably be thinking of adding a few million to the fees of both Moisés Caicedo and Roméo Lavia. There is only one of each and both Liverpool and Chelsea are in desperate need of players who can add discipline and muscularity to their midfields.
There were stories during the hyperinflation in Zimbabwe of golfers who would pay for their drinks before a round because by the time they got to the bar the price would have gone up. Having signed Jude Bellingham for an initial £88.5m two months ago, Real Madrid find themselves in a similar position, as the market for central midfielders becomes seriously overheated.
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