Former Liverpool star Don Hutchinson has criticized Chelsea’s transfer business in the last summer, particularly the signings of Romeo Lavia and Moises Caicedo.
Both Lavia and Caicedo were heavily linked with Liverpool.
The Reds even bid for the duo before Chelsea eventually beat out interest from their Premier League rivals and secured their services.
Chelsea signed Caicedo for a British record £115 million transfer fee.
However, Hutchinson believes Mauricio Pochettino’s side bought Caicedo and Lavia in a state of panic.
“I was chatting to a mate of mine, a Liverpool fan, and it was like you look back at the transfer window and you go Liverpool nearly bought [Moises] Caicedo, but Chelsea’s plan was, ‘Oh, we’ll buy him’,” Hutchinson said (via The Chelsea Chronicle).
“Then Liverpool said, ‘All right, then, we’ll buy Lavia’, and then Chelsea went, ‘Oh, we’ll buy him!’ And they were just panic buying everywhere.”