Marc Cucurella

[Coatigan]

Where are people getting 62m from? Reports all claim 52.5

 

[Fordyboy46]

Let's announce a left back for half that price, come on Txiki get fucking active

 

[argyle]

If Cucurella is £62m then in hindsight we sold Zinchenko too cheap.

 

[City_Sean]

Where are people getting 62m from? Reports all claim 52.5

£55m initial fee plus £7m in bonuses. Chelsea have had their pants pulled down.

 

[balotelli's back pocket]

Where are people getting 62m from? Reports all claim 52.5

From 45 mins ago:

 

[blueparrot]

If you think that you’d rather have lost out on this for the sake of 62m, crack on. We’ll see...

We’ve done this a lot, and not lost out, have you forgotten.Won’t lose out this time a few months with Pep the full back we buy for less than half the cost of this will look the better player.

 

[oakiecokie]

We’ve done this a lot, and not lost out, have you forgotten.Won’t lose out this time a few months with Pep the full back we buy for less than half the cost of this will look the better player.

People selectively have short memories bp.

 

[thereWasATime]

Ooofff 62m is some hot shit!

 

[Coatigan]

From 45 mins ago:

So now we believe Romano, who we usually call a bullshit merchant?

He seems to be the only one with those numbers, all others saying 52.5m

 

[Will1880]

£62m is too much but we've still fumbled massively by selling Zinchenko. We should have kept Zinny and signed an actual LB. We were playing Fernandinho and Stones at RB at the end of the season while Cancelo was at LB. It almost cost us everything, and it definitely cost us against Madrid. The fact we are going into this season with less fullbacks after all that is a joke.

 

[Ric]

It isn’t. It’s the going rate.

It really isn’t.

 

[mattyb]

It isn’t. It’s the going rate.

Is it heck

 

[Ric]

So now we believe Romano, who we usually call a bullshit merchant?

He seems to be the only one with those numbers, all others saying 52.5m

Even The Athletic’s Chelsea correspondent has said “Cucurella is costing considerably more than £52.5m”.

 

[bumbleblue]

It must make him one of the most expensive least capped full backs ever.

 

[MCFC1993]

£62m is ridiculous.

City quite rightly pulled out of that. We could sign a better player for less than that.

 

[itisrising]

It isn’t. It’s the going rate.

Going rate? It's a world record fee for a fullback and it's for a player who's been playing for Brighton.

 

[City Mike 1969]

Some people have short memories.
Where were we just over 20 years ago?
It's good to crow when you get one over a "bigger" club - we've all done it.
Not every battle is won, it's how you learn to prepare for for the next one.
I was pissed off when we sold David Wagstaffe, but I've now got over my disappointment.
We go forwards.

Nice false equivalence. I also have no idea about lording it over any club be it allegedly bigger or smaller than our club.
What I do remember is being laughed at for the club I support when we were shit, and then being accused of everything this side of shooting the fucking pope now that we aren’t.

 

[Rammy Blue]

That’s an insane fee really, given his relative lack of experience. Fair play to Brighton for getting that amount, but don’t blame City for walking away. We’d have been absolutely panned for “distorting the market” if we’d paid that.

We shouldn’t have wasted so much time and resource on him though, even I knew that it’d take £50+mil to get him, just Chelsea were the ones stupid enough to pay it.

 

[Dicko69]

I wonder what his wages are on top of that fee, you'd kind of expect most expensive fullback in the world is also the highest paid fullback in the world

 

[Joao7Fazzar]

£62m is ridiculous.

City quite rightly pulled out of that. We could sign a better player for less than that.

Who?