Marc Cucurella

[Maly]

Serious Question To City fans...Do u believe Romano to be on your payroll as well as other big European clubs?...all the time he was being fed positive information from agent he couldn't wait to tweet, now...diddly squat...not really unbiased journalism is it?

Serious question. Who is Romano?

 

[CityBluez]

Serious Question To City fans...Do u believe Romano to be on your payroll as well as other big European clubs?...all the time he was being fed positive information from agent he couldn't wait to tweet, now...diddly squat...not really unbiased journalism is it?

Why would Romano be on the club's payroll? Also Naylor is on Brighton's payroll. Maybe he reported whatever Brighton wants him to report. Maybe that's not true internally who knows

 

[Rammy Blue]

Sometimes you got to try. Like barca are trying for Bernardo. Like Chelsea tried for ake

You do it to turn the player’s head, hoping they then go and say to the gaffer that I want to go there, which funnily enough will be exactly what has happened in all of these scenarios. That said, still pointless if club isn’t prepared to go to what is going to get the deal done.

 

[Coatigan]

In the same way I did not get overly giddy with yesterday's interesting developme of a transfer request, I am not particularly concerened at today's 'development', nor was I at the day before's claim we were considering walking away

 

[simon23]

People forget we refused to entertain Spurs' valuation of Kane.

Kinda worked out well?

Let's hope our plan b is as good as Dias then......

 

[CityBluez]

There's a release clause which is a set price and negotiation where two parties have a valuation and negotiate it's totally different!
I'm obviously a bit simple could you explain it to me like I'm five how it's the same?

Because Brighton have set him at 50mil ? So you are saying if cucurella had a 50 mil release clause we would have probably paid it but we will not pay if Brighton tell us it's 50 mil?

 

[Nails]

He will probably say Cucurella feels "disrespected" and "red with anger"

Ready to go on strike.

Is that what you've heard? Or what you expect to hear?

 

[mosssideblue]

Personally don’t think it’s over

It must be, there was a tweet saying so

 

[dachoosen1]

Bizarre by City.

We've paid 50m for fullbacks in the past. Last season we paid the release clause of 100m. We've raised a record amount from sales but now penny pinching on this one.

I know some on here will still be saying there is a chance but that's what many were saying last summer with Kane.

I really hope we go for another LB and won't be stubborn enough to go into the season with just two fullbacks.

The club keep expecting Pep to work miracles. Thankfully so far he has.

We have, walker was a regular international playing for a direct rival and been one of if not the best rb in the country for years, cancelo's fee was inflated by a swap deal he was a regular international playing CL football and wining trophies with juve. Mendy was playing CL and coming of the back of an incredible season and looked the complete fullback and he has been a complete and utter disaster the club obviously don't want to spend that money again for a relevantly unproven player.

 

[Agueroooo9320]

Because Brighton have set him price at 50mil ? So you are saying if cucurella had a 50 mil release clause we would have probably paid it but we will not pay if Brighton tell us it's 50 mil?

he is wrong if 50 mil was cucurella's release clause I suspect we still will not pay it, because we do not think he is worth it.

 

[SebastianBlue]

Wild theory: we’ve agreed the deal in principle with Brighton and this AndyBlowHardFC is being used to create the narrative that Bloom is Daniel Levy with a soul, Cucurella desperately wanted to leave, and City eventually caved, allowing everyone to get what they want (as Txiki doesn’t care about the narrative).

 

[Nails]

Serious Question To City fans...Do u believe Romano to be on your payroll as well as other big European clubs?...all the time he was being fed positive information from agent he couldn't wait to tweet, now...diddly squat...not really unbiased journalism is it?

Don't give a fuck about Romano. But use your noodle. This is coming from the club, not the agent.

 

[CityBluez]

You do it to turn the player’s head, hoping they then go and say to the gaffer that I want to go there, which funnily enough will be exactly what has happened in all of these scenarios. That said, still pointless if club isn’t prepared to go to what is going to get the deal done.

Lot of times deal doesn't get done but clubs have to try. To me it would be concerning if we don't have backup plans. I believe we will probably sign Sosa or grimaldo.

 

[dachoosen1]

Raum is Leipzig is done.

I knew it was close didn't think it was through yet.

 

[Cobwebcat]

This transfer destroys Brighton’s business model. Young, promising players will no longer want to go there because they know, when a big club comes knocking, you won’t be allowed to leave.

It’s almost like everyone loses.

 

[CityBluez]

he is wrong if 50 mil was cucurella's release clause I suspect we still will not pay it, because we do not think he is worth it.

Exactly my point. Release clause or not it's a moot point. We decide the player's worth to us and pay for it accordingly.

 

[JTFactsPlz]

Signing Cucurella for 50m is not going to do that, signing Grealish for 100m though...

If we started Cucurella negotation from 40M, Brighton wanted 50m+ and in the end we compromiosed something like 45m+5m everyone would've forgotten this transfer fee in a week.

No idea why people keep using the Grealish deal as an example. It was a release clause not a negotiation. Take it or leave it, we chose to take it. If Cucurella had a £50m release clause I bet he'd have been a City player weeks ago. The club's stance here has been to attempt to demonstrate we won't be turned over in negotiations.

If Brighton were initially pricing Cucurella at £50m, it doesn't seem unreasonable to open on our side at £30m with an expectation to meet in the middle at ~£40m. That's a fair (if slightly inflated) price for a player with Cucurella's profile. (I also get the vibe City were reluctant to offer the full £50m in negotiations as there was an expectation Bloom would just move the goalposts again and increase the price further.) Bloom has just decided to play Billy Big Bollocks to look good in front of Brighton fans. He clearly doesn't give a shit about his player (in stark contrast to how we treat our players). It's not like City were trying to get Brighton to sell him for a bag of Maltesers and a Kitkat. If I were ever a player with options and Brighton were amongst them, I'd have them at the bottom of my list after this little display.

This also makes me wonder how much influence Potter has at Brighton. I'm guessing very little as he doesn't seem the type to want to hold a player hostage. Hopefully he moves on to bigger and better things soon.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

It did but it also could be argued it caught up with us in the fa cup, league cup and champions league. Nearly cost us the league too.

No matter what people say going into next season with 2 senior full backs would be absolutely ludicrous. The club are no doubt run well but doesn’t mean they don’t make mistakes. See when we didn’t replace kompany.

We have handled this transfer badly imo , we thought we could throw our weight around bully Brighton and apply pressure from the player. Fair play to Brighton standing firm. It’s very similar to what Barcelona are doing with us to Bernardo tbh

If we thought we could throw our weight around, we would have asked more for Zinchenko.

How many players put in transfer requests away from City, even when we know they wish to move on?

The truth is much more simple, we are decent people and other clubs see City as an easy touch.

We are no longer that club, we have our valuation and don't need to pull our pants down for anyone.

Last season we did win the league and losing in Cup semis wasn't down to a lack of depth, squarely down to injuries at the wrong time and the moments where a top opponent can kill you in the blink of an eye.

City will not let this window close without buying another left back and the only loser in this would be Cucurella.

Kompany shocked City by leaving, we expected him to go another year and the timing of it killed our due diligence on a top quality replacement for such a pivotal player.

 

[DeBlueLou]

Mate, come on, there's no such thing!

Not by definition but clearly if the fee was 50m and paying it meant it would get done, it’s not far from being a release clause.

 

[mosssideblue]

The flappers never fail to Impress