Not at all, paying above your valuation makes you look like amateurs. Did we look like amateurs when the rags bought Sanchez, Maguire?How football works......
Brighton value Cucurella at £50M.
We don't think he is worth £50M and will not pay it.
Another team thinks he is worth £50M and are willing to pay it.
Therefore, Brighton are right. Cucurella's value is £50M!
It's not rocket science. It's a market - demand/supply/price
Taking some moral high ground doesn't gain us anything - doesn't get us the target player that Pep wants.
After letting Sterling go to Chelsea, this feels like gifting them another top class player.
Our club is trying to raise its profile positively on the world stage. This sort of approach, like last summer with Kane, risks making us look like amateurs.
The way Bloom works not so sure he would sell Cucurella to City even if we offered £50m.It’ll be interesting to see if we use Chelsea getting close on a fee to our advantage in knowing we can get it matched and do the deal quickly, IF we do choose. Only other day we were saying no one knew what fee Bloom wanted, however if suddenly we get to hear maybe via Cucu’s agent what the agreed fee is then we know what has to be done if we want to swoop in.
Not by any means convinced we will but there’s always the possibility.
Is it on Txiki, I'm sure Txiki could have done the deal weeks ago if he was told he had £50 Mill to spend on him , he obviously was told he didn't have £50 mill for him. For whatever, probably very good reasn.Buy the player. It’s been reported for months that Cucurella is City and Pep’s priority leftback target. Not coughing up the money needed when we’ve sold so many players with big profits this summer is completely beyond me. There aren’t many good options on the market. We’re likely looking at another Angelino situation. Instead of buying the top target, we settle on somebody less skillful, and because of what, pride? Because we got the money. This is on Txiki.
Rumoured, except he only ever says he's very happy.So guessed is a better word.thats what he`ll say in public mate ;-) he was rumoured to be fuming we didnt sign Kane last summer!
How football works......
Brighton value Cucurella at £50M.
We don't think he is worth £50M and will not pay it.
Another team thinks he is worth £50M and are willing to pay it.
Therefore, Brighton are right. Cucurella's value is £50M!
It's not rocket science. It's a market - demand/supply/price
Taking some moral high ground doesn't gain us anything - doesn't get us the target player that Pep wants.
After letting Sterling go to Chelsea, this feels like gifting them another top class player.
Our club is trying to raise its profile positively on the world stage. This sort of approach, like last summer with Kane, risks making us look like amateurs.
That really isn't how it works at all....How football works......
Brighton value Cucurella at £50M.
We don't think he is worth £50M and will not pay it.
Another team thinks he is worth £50M and are willing to pay it.
Therefore, Brighton are right. Cucurella's value is £50M!
It's not rocket science. It's a market - demand/supply/price
Taking some moral high ground doesn't gain us anything - doesn't get us the target player that Pep wants.
After letting Sterling go to Chelsea, this feels like gifting them another top class player.
Our club is trying to raise its profile positively on the world stage. This sort of approach, like last summer with Kane, risks making us look like amateurs.
If Ben White is the yardstick maybe we are best off finding an alternative. White is garbage.Maybe the asking price was £60m and all this time haggling walking away unsettling player transfer request bringing in chelsea has already now reduced it to £50m.
Maybe we can then agree at £45-50m being the players desired club having initially been quoted £10-15m more. In which case that would be good business.
All the stories from brighton end are “ben white is yardstick and we think cucurella is better and would take a ridiculous offer etc etc” so Im sure they were asking well over £50m originally.
I’ll keep blind faith we’re still in this and will get our player but hope is dwindling.
Of course if its always been £50m and we’re not doing it for the sake of £10m I’d be pissed
Not at all, paying above your valuation makes you look like amateurs. Did we look like amateurs when the rags bought Sanchez, Maguire?
Edit: the only thing I would say is if we believe he really is the one and no one else compares, then maybe we’ve got our valuation wrong, but I’ll leave that to the experts.
It’ll be interesting to see if we use Chelsea getting close on a fee to our advantage in knowing we can get it matched and do the deal quickly, IF we do choose. Only other day we were saying no one knew what fee Bloom wanted, however if suddenly we get to hear maybe via Cucu’s agent what the agreed fee is then we know what has to be done if we want to swoop in.
Not by any means convinced we will but there’s always the possibility.
How football works......
Brighton value Cucurella at £50M.
We don't think he is worth £50M and will not pay it.
Another team thinks he is worth £50M and are willing to pay it.
Therefore, Brighton are right. Cucurella's value is £50M!
It's not rocket science. It's a market - demand/supply/price
Taking some moral high ground doesn't gain us anything - doesn't get us the target player that Pep wants.
After letting Sterling go to Chelsea, this feels like gifting them another top class player.
Our club is trying to raise its profile positively on the world stage. This sort of approach, like last summer with Kane, risks making us look like amateurs.
Not signing Kane didn’t make us look like amateurs.
We saved £150m, won the title and signed Haaland for a third of the fee.
Dry your flaps.
There have been plenty of posts quoting sources where they were asking for in excess of £50m, so you may not be far away from the truth.Maybe the asking price was £60m and all this time haggling walking away unsettling player transfer request bringing in chelsea has already now reduced it to £50m.
Maybe we can then agree at £45-50m being the players desired club having initially been quoted £10-15m more. In which case that would be good business.
All the stories from brighton end are “ben white is yardstick and we think cucurella is better and would take a ridiculous offer etc etc” so Im sure they were asking well over £50m originally.
I’ll keep blind faith we’re still in this and will get our player but hope is dwindling.
Of course if its always been £50m and we’re not doing it for the sake of £10m I’d be pissed
Might have looked small time to some but you should never pay a penny more than you think something’s worth. If you keep doing that, soon you’re Barcelona. No need for us to gamble from a position of strength.At the time we looked smalltime for not having the ambition and bollocks to pay big money. But only until both of those goons started to actually try and play football in that hideous rag shirt. Then we looked like geniuses for knowing they were actually shit and best avoided.
Hopefully it’ll be the same with Cucurella if he doesn’t come here.
Not really. It's pretty standard I'd say. We want a player but are not willing to go above a certain amount. If we can't get the player for that amount, we walk away. It's happened loads of times, with us and other clubs.very strange transfer saga
We can only hope so.Wow, 40 pages overnight on zero fresh information.
No one has even discussed the most logical conclusion that Cucurella was a smokescreen for signing Danny Welbeck.