Cesc Fabregas has revealed that he bought Willy Caballero a Range Rover after losing a bet to his ex-team-mate at Chelsea, sharing a clip of the moment he paid up on social media.
Fabregas was widely seen as a set-piece expert at the height of his career, due to his striking technique and composure in a dead ball situation.
Fabregas played for the blues between 2014 and 2019, helping the club win four major trophies, including two Premier League titles, and was also a big personality behind the scenes at Chelsea.
Ex-Chelsea goalie Marcin Bulka revealed back in April that the Spanish midfielder agreed to buy a car for another of the club’s back-up shot-stoppers Caballero, if he missed a penalty in training.
Fabregas has now come out to confirm the story, and has also uploaded a video showing Caballero’s reaction when he was presented with a clapped-out Range Rover in the park of the club’s training facility in Cobham.
“So, after a player already told the story to the press of what happened one day in 2018 and many people asked me if it’s true, there we go,” Fabregas wrote on Instagram.
“Many times for many years after training, I stay a little bit longer to take some penalties. I always made little bets with the goalkeepers to put a bit of spice into the challenge.
“For some reason, I never really missed one. So one day I got too confident and it got a bit out of hand. It was Willy Caballero’s turn and I told him that if he saved it I’d get him a Range Rover.
“Unfortunately for me, he saved it in front of the whole team so you can imagine how it went… I went from feeling the most confident, to feeling like the most stupid guy on earth.
“Everybody obviously was shouting and laughing that I had to pay my debt. I went to a scrapyard and I found a destroyed Range Rover that couldn’t be used at all for £950 so I said, you know what? I’ll get that.
“The next day they brought it to the training ground and well… I’ll show you the rest on a video. The lesson of the story is: Don’t bet at all at any cost.”
