Marc Cucurella

[IrishBlueSince92]

I've a feeling Pep won't sign a left back now.
He's contrary like that at times.

So we've strengthened Arsenal with Zinchenko and Jesus and now Chelsea with Sterling and Cucurella this summer

 

[Pollocksheader]

Three years down the track you go to buy another car worth £7250, and the dealer adds another £2k to the price tag because he knows you'll pay what he wants.

As proven here it’s all down to the seller. They value their asset and sell at what they want. If someone isn’t prepared to pay it usually the next person will

 

[Legal Alien]

Doesn’t mean we won’t ever make mistakes. League starts this weekend

No, but at the moment we don't know if we've made a mistake or not.
He's only played one season in the PL who knows if that was a fluke.
I think the club are right to think that £50m is a risk.

Cancelo will play LB, maybe it's not ideal but we know he can play there.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Haaland is left footed.

Problem solved.

 

[Gaz (FMwkdsoul)]

We are not after gomez and gaya. Our next target will be sosa and grimaldo. Grimaldo is cheaper. If we get them, for say ,25M we can sell them for 50-55M like we did Ferran and get a lot of profit. If you buy for 50M , you are pretty much reaching the ceiling already

It was just to point out there are La Masia or players that would be quick fits to the system if the 'Spanish' angle was the main kicker. I can find links to about 7 different left backs from the last few months, god knows what the list order is.

 

[VinceYoungisaBLUE]

Lol this is getting nutty. This guy is nothing special, we should be walking away from this. Spending 50 mil on a guy who's career trajectory looks like this : Barca -> getafe - > brighton -> doesnt look good on paper. Hell, when I've seen him play for brighton a handful of times, he didnt look great then either.

 

[hilts]

Are we buying a car, a house or a left back?

We are buying a car and a house for the new left back:-)

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

Good lord, I know he's a good player but is he really that good? Like so good that there are no other options out there to replace him? If that's the case then we are done! Totally abandoned and forsaken by the gods of football, throw 100m and Bernardo at Brighton and make this deal happen asap!

The hype is super strong with this one. Seriously, get a grip .

I've always said LB is the hardest position to recruit for. The best LBs are natural lefties and have decent pace. Add in attacking and defensive quality and its really hard to find decent players that fit that mould. In other positions you can get away with a mix of qualities but a LB has to have it all.

Over the years the position we have always struggled with is LB. Dont think we have had a genuinely great one in my lifetime.

 

[CityBluez]

Grimaldo? lol

What about him.

 

[Bournemouth Blue]

I am sure the City employees have worked out their transfer strategy, and they have more to win or lose than anyone on here. Another month to go to the end of the transfer deadline, and we already have three established players capable of playing in that position. Calm down.

 

[pudge]

There's little chance Chelsea go in for him without assurances from the player given how they've been shown up by transfers to date this window.

I doubt he's 'City or nothing'

 

[p.taker]

What about him.

Not good enough and doubt City have any interest in him.

 

[Mancini’s Pastilles]

Letting Zink go without a replacement signed was utter madness

whomever we go for now the price only goes north, should have paid it

The attitude from the fans seems to be , we have Haaland now, we can sell some key players and let others fill in here and there when needed

 

[kupest]

I've a feeling Pep won't sign a left back now.
He's contrary like that at times.

So we've strengthened Arsenal with Zinchenko and Jesus and now Chelsea with Sterling and Cucurella this summer

You do realize Arsenal/Chelsea would have gone for other players if not the ones above. There are quite a few in that bracket. We also got in Haaland, Phillips and Alvarez. We dont own Cucurella, so we have nothing to do with Chelsea buying them. We can't be buying players to stop others from strengthening. We will pay the amount we are comfortable with or else everyone will be asking 100 million from us.

 

[Pollocksheader]

Zinchenko isn't just a LB though. You're selling a quality international midfield player that can also cover at LB.

So don’t sell him. He’d have got game time next season surely? On paper we valued our back up left back at 35 whilst brightons player of the year, aged great at 24 who has a very long contract in place, at 30m. We’ve got some great value in sales, just think an all or nothing 30m bid for your only left back target is a bit odd, no matter how good previous business has been

 

[nmc]

Seen lots of comments re Zinchenko…. Just wanted to say maybe the club knew he wanted to move, Arse agreed a fee, he agreed terms and we just concluded that he was a good guy, a loyal servant and deserved to be treated with dignity and respect - and we swiftly granted him his move. Holding him hostage while we signed a replacement would have been pointless and maybe something the club rightly chose not to do. Maybe contrast that behaviour with the actions of the media heralded Spiv Mr Bloom and the way he’s treated his player. We will get no credit but I think City have behaved entirely appropriately with a player who had been exemplary in his conduct whilst with us and who has had a fucking hard time of it recently… (with the war etc..). sometimes you have to do the right thing and on this occasion I’m proud to say we did.

 

[PragueBlue]

As proven here it’s all down to the seller. They value their asset and sell at what they want. If someone isn’t prepared to pay it usually the next person will

While that may be true, it's still not great to pay considerably more for a player than you value him at.

Say (for example) we value Cucurella at 35M and Sosa at 30M. If we can get Cucurella for about the valuation we have on him, we try to sign him. If not, we see Sosa as the better option.

 

[moomba]

As proven here it’s all down to the seller. They value their asset and sell at what they want. If someone isn’t prepared to pay it usually the next person will

If you don't think the car is worth what the dealer is selling for you either try and get it cheaper or you move on and let someone else pay up.

 

[PragueBlue]

So don’t sell him. He’d have got game time next season surely? On paper we valued our back up left back at 35 whilst brightons player of the year, aged great at 24 who has a very long contract in place, at 30m. We’ve got some great value in sales, just think an all or nothing 30m bid for your only left back target is a bit odd, no matter how good previous business has been

I though I had read that we had made a bid of up to 40M?

 

[meeesh]

Glad I don’t put my 5m on to buy 2m anyway now