I don’t know anything about second 40m bid. I said you might as well pay 50m becaue everyone keeps moving goalposts here. 40m is already us changing our stance from 30m, cucurella has done his part, now it is up to brighton. You are making it sound like city are doing nothing to help complete the deal.
City have placed one bid of 30m. There is no 40m bid yet, most reports now have said they are willing to go around 40m, that is a big compromise and showing our willingness to up our bid.
My main point though is that I don’t think transfer requests mean much in the grand scheme of things. Brighton are the ones that need to change their stance, city are obviously willing to talk. I doubt this makes a difference for brightons recruitment, how many kids from the slums of brazil or ecuador would turn down the chance to make 10k a week from brighton and get premier league exposure?