Marc Cucurella

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Dribble said:
The issue is if we'd overpaid for Cucurella, it would probably impact future transfers. Is Cucurella really worth all that potential future grief? Isn't there an alternative LB alternative in world football?

We paid £57m for Laporte & a reputed £72m for Dias, as well as £55m for Stones & £50m for Walker. The £62m for Cancelo wasn't offset against the £30m we received for Danilo, so his fee is debatable.

Was Cucurella worth £62m? Were any of the above worth their fees? I'd say in hindsight yes, but with Cucurella it remains to be seen if he can live up to a fee that must make him the most expensive full back in world football, or within striking distance of that accolade.

There's one benefit of Cucurella to Chelsea... The Brighton fans have fucked off to the Shed End, so I suppose that's summat? \0/
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Dias - 62 mil ( 15 mil euros in return for Otamendi )
Stones - 47 mil ( no add ons )
 
SalfordGrimble said:
The issue isn’t spending an extra 10/15 million, it’s the principle. It’s took years for us to lose that city premium, giving into unrealistic demands because we’re desperate will bring it back.
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It's confusing really. If city were zeroed in on principle, I simply can't understand why'd they splash out 100 mil pounds on Grealish. Like why though ?
 
Semper aggressus said:
Did that last night thanks.

Meanwhile on a football discussion forum I’ll continue to express concern that we’re actually very weak and light in a position we could have sorted once and for all if we’d spent what it took to do it. Now we’re left with some pretty average options or a season trying to fit square pegs in round holes if there’s even one injury.
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Oh shit did the window shut??

Must have missed that.
 
Semper aggressus said:
What’s more of a gamble; hoping Walker and Cancelo can both play every game this season without injury/suspension, or spending over £50m to ensure there‘s not much drop in quality that costs us points or a cup when either misses some games?
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Pretty sure we'll sign a left back. Relax.

What is perplexing is city not making use of the cash they got for selling key first team players. Why not go ahead an sign a decent talented winger too or even a right back.
 
Dribble said:
Was Cucurella worth £62m? Were any of the above worth their fees? I'd say in hindsight yes, but with Cucurella it remains to be seen if he can live up to a fee that must make him the most expensive full back in world football, or within striking distance of that accolade.
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Many good points but as for Cucurella’s worth, I do think he’s actually worth 62m. From my view he’s like a mix of Cancelo and Walker. Haven’t been impressed with any leftbacks in particular for years, but his talent is special and I think he will show it again this season. Unfortunately Chelsea got a pretty fucking great fullback, expensive or not. We would have been set in defense for years if we splashed the cash on him. It was a ton of money, but for a reason. He’s great and I’m really not happy with the other choices we have. Honestly I think the club won’t buy a leftback now. If none available fit the bill, maybe in the winter window.
 
blueparrot said:
I'd call it forward planning, I think we've suspected for at least ayear Sterling and Jesus would leave.
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It was very obviously a signing that Pep wanted, and you can understand why.
For the generation who love and judge a player on stats and stats alone it doesn’t make sense but football is a bit more nuanced than that.
 
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crossbar said:
Many good points but as for Cucurella’s worth, I do think he’s actually worth 62m. From my view he’s like a mix of Cancelo and Walker. Haven’t been impressed with any leftbacks in particular for years, but his talent is special and I think he will show it again this season. Unfortunately Chelsea got a pretty fucking great fullback, expensive or not. We would have been set in defense for years if we splashed the cash on him. It was a ton of money, but for a reason. He’s great and I’m really not happy with the other choices we have. Honestly I think the club won’t buy a leftback now. If none available fit the bill, maybe in the winter window.
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Pretty sure Ait Nouri is better than Cucurella in all aspects. Stat wise, eye test wise. Would love it if city go ahead and splash some cash on him. Albeit, he won't be cheap too. Wolves will have every right to demand 50 mil plus having seen Cuc gone for mind boggling money
 
prealish_stan said:
It's confusing really. If city were zeroed in on principle, I simply can't understand why'd they splash out 100 mil pounds on Grealish. Like why though ?
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Grealish does seem like an outlier. As does Cancelo. Both seemed like overpriced luxury players (Cancelo proved to be value for money, yet to be seen on Grealish but not so far).

But look at Kane, Ronaldo, Maguire, van Dijk, Sanchez. We walked away because the price and/or wage was too high. It’s clearly out MO to make risk-reduced transfers, with the occasional exception.
 
crossbar said:
Many good points but as for Cucurella’s worth, I do think he’s actually worth 62m. From my view he’s like a mix of Cancelo and Walker. Haven’t been impressed with any leftbacks in particular for years, but his talent is special and I think he will show it again this season. Unfortunately Chelsea got a pretty fucking great fullback, expensive or not. We would have been set in defense for years if we splashed the cash on him. It was a ton of money, but for a reason. He’s great and I’m really not happy with the other choices we have. Honestly I think the club won’t buy a leftback now. If none available fit the bill, maybe in the winter window.
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How many times have you seen him over a 90 minute period?
Mix of Walker and Cancelo? Haha! Fuckinell!
 
kun said:
Grealish does seem like an outlier. As does Cancelo. Both seemed like overpriced luxury players (Cancelo priced to be value for money, yet to be seen on Grealish but not so far).

But look at Kane, Ronaldo, Maguire, van Dijk, Sanchez. We walked away because the price and/or wage was too high. It’s clearly out MO to make risk-reduced transfers, with the occasional exception.
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Cancelo money was offset by the 33 mil price tag for Danilo. So I don't really consider Cancelo as a luxury player.

The Grealish outlier is pretty big one. Tough to get your head around. He's one of the least hard working players on the pitch as was evident against Liverpool.
 
prealish_stan said:
Cancelo money was offset by the 33 mil price tag for Danilo. So I don't really consider Cancelo as a luxury player.

The Grealish outlier is pretty big one. Tough to get your head around. He's one of the least hard working players on the pitch as was evident against Liverpool.
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Grealish was offset by plenty of sales
 
crossbar said:
Many good points but as for Cucurella’s worth, I do think he’s actually worth 62m. From my view he’s like a mix of Cancelo and Walker. Haven’t been impressed with any leftbacks in particular for years, but his talent is special and I think he will show it again this season. Unfortunately Chelsea got a pretty fucking great fullback, expensive or not. We would have been set in defense for years if we splashed the cash on him. It was a ton of money, but for a reason. He’s great and I’m really not happy with the other choices we have. Honestly I think the club won’t buy a leftback now. If none available fit the bill, maybe in the winter window.
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So he’s a mixture of the best attacking left back in the league and the best defensive right back in the league?

Then why on earth does he have 1 cap at the age of 23, when Walker and Cancelo would start every game for Spain?
 
Phil1 said:
It was very obviously a signing that Pep wanted, and you can understand why.
For the generation who love and judge a player on stats and stats alone it doesn’t make sense but football is a bit more nuanced than that.
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I think the way I see the team evolving with a striker and ,hopefully , a left back that overlaps with maybe Cancelo more as an overlapping right back then Grealish and Foden tucking in a bit as our wide forwards makes a lot of sense. In my head at least. Of course we do need a left back for that.
 
kun said:
So he’s a mixture of the best attacking left back in the league and the best defensive right back in the league?

Then why on earth does he have 1 cap at the age of 23, when Walker and Cancelo would start every game for Spain?
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It's crazy isn't it? I bet nobody would have been arsed if this bloke stayed at Brighton or not before this whole transfer saga unfolded.
 
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