Chelsea great Frank Leboeuf insists Moises Caicedo is now worth double what the Blues paid to bring him to Stamford Bridge two years ago.

The Ecuador international scooped Chelsea’s Player of the Year award last season and has started the 2025-26 campaign in thrilling fashion.

A masterful midfield performance against Liverpool on Sunday saw Gary Neville christen him ‘the best in the league’ ahead of Declan Rice.

Caicedo didn’t come cheap – with Chelsea signing him from Brighton for what was a British record fee of £115million, a record since broken by Florian Wirtz’s move to Liverpool.

The midfielder sometimes struggled to live up to that huge price tag during his first season at Stamford Bridge but former Chelsea star Leboeuf believes that fee now looks like a relative bargain.

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Comparing him to former midfield powerhouses in Claude Makeke and N’Golo Kante, Leboeuf suggests Caicedo makes life ‘simple’ for his teammates.

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