Cesc Fabregas has confirmed that he bought Willy Caballero a Range Rover after losing a bet to his ex-Chelsea team-mate, sharing a video of the moment he paid up on social media.
Fabregas was widely revered as a set-piece expert at the height of his career, due to his polished striking technique and composure in a dead ball situation.
The 32-year-old, who is currently on the books of Ligue 1 giants Monaco, has always been confident in his own ability and as it turns out, unafraid to raise the stakes when it comes proving his quality against his colleagues.
Fabregas played for Chelsea between 2014 and 2019, helping the club win four major trophies in total, including two Premier League titles, and was also a huge personality behind the scenes at Stamford Bridge.
Ex-Chelsea goalkeeper Marcin Bulka revealed back in April that the Spanish playmaker agreed to purchase a car for another of the club's back-up shot-stoppers Caballero, if he missed a penalty kick in training.
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Fabregas has now come out to confirm the story, and has also uploaded a clip showing Caballero's reaction when he was presented with a clapped-out Range Rover in the cark park of Chelsea'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."
