Marc Cucurella

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jrb said:
Let's turn the table. How much would City want for our player of last season before considering to sell?(even though we wouldn't sell)

Brighton have every right to hold out for the transfer fee they want for him.

Some of our fans are becoming Rag-esc and entitled when it comes to City trying to sign players from other clubs.

If the transfer fee is £50mill, pay it, he's worth it. He's young and has proved he can play and thrive in the PL with an average team. No offence to Brighton.

The left back position has been a problem position for City for years. He will solve that problem for years to come. Pay the money and buy him. Done!
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We can at least go in at 35m+ addons like all clubs do with us so it’s now simple as in offer 50m from the off you start low and meet in the middle of the club don’t won’t to sell tel city he is not for sale at any fee and the lads got 4 years left on his contract..
 
You can’t argue with their stance , especially as we have form for paying £50m + for full backs

just depends whether we are willing to go that high or even beyond that

the only other way is if he kicks up a fuss and puts in a transfer request. Very few players do that these days though
 
I think £50M should be the mark. We shouldn't be paying more than that. Anyways the media is always raging. They said £60 for philips but at the end we got him for £42m
 
I want Zinc to stay but if he does want a new challenge & playing week in week out then we could include him in this transfer, similar to the Cancelo/Danilo deal
 
Tangled up in blue. said:
I think Brighton would accept £50m if it came to it
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Why do you think that? Not an aggressive question. Just curious what your reasoning is.

Based on what the market is; based on what sort of transfers have been going down this summer; based on what we have paid for defenders in the recent past; based on what they know we can pay: – I'd table £50 million if I were Txixi and Pep. Maybe a bit more, even. But do I think that Bloom and Potter will take it? Frankly, I don't have the faintest idea. They don't particularly want to sell, they're not in any particular financial trouble, they've got a player who's done a year of his contract with a lot more to go. Worst that can happen is that they'll have an unhappy player for a while. But he'll probably knuckle down to it. As Kane did. The difference there is that I think Levy faffed around with us for the whole summer. He basically had no intention of selling at all. Also, Kane is a local boy who maybe had misgivings about breaking with the Tottenham fanbase over it. Cucurella does not have that kind of link with the club, although he's fairly happy there, apparently. He and his agent may push harder. That's about all I'm relying on.

I sort of suspect that this may not go through. If it doesn't, I'll be disappointed. But what people seem to be discounting is the possibility that we will live with it, and go back for him next year. Sure, it's not ideal, but we just proved that we could play without a striker for the best part of three years. Who would have thought that? We didn't want to go in for just anyone. Pep wanted Kane — who was probably never truly available, at least not in his chairman's mind. We waited for the best young attacker on the planet (Mbappe as a rival? Mmmm… maybe). We got him.
Let's get the right players, and be patient if they're not immediately available.
 
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£37.5m now
£5m if come in top 2 and he makes min 20 appearances
£5m if wins champions League at city any time in next 3 years and he appears in min 5 games that year
£2.5m if named in premier league team of season in any of next 3 seasons whilst city player
£2.5m if reaches 10 international appearances

That's £52.5m, above and beyond without stretching ourselves, these structures happen all the time in football and unless Brighton say cash up front, then a deal should get done.

From their point of view, will Cucurella be worth more in 12 months time? Certainly not guaranteed.
 
wolviedinho said:
Nah. Brighton need to realise that when a big dog comes in for a player then said player will want to leave. Comparing Barca is not accurate. If they weren’t broke I would be concerned about Bernie going.

Cucurella needs to hand in a transfer request to keep the fire burning otherwise move onto another target. It will be his loss.

This English transfer dance happens everyone we buy from a club in the premier.
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If a player hands in a transfer request he loses a load of money which is why they never do.
 
Cobwebcat said:
This attitude of we are bigger than you so just hand the player over from some posters is sad to see.

Plays right into the hands of opposition supporters who call us arrogant and, in general, I don’t think it represents the true City fan base.
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How many posters?
 
richards30 said:
is Pol the one well connected to Pep?
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yup. That's why I listen to the Athletic Podcast now - coz he has joined them recently and he is on point

posted in the Quiet thread - he also expects zini to go . That will only happen if cucurella comes in I reckon
 
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