Marc Cucurella

[Damanino]

Yes, Bloom played poker here and got as much value out of his hand as he wanted. Chelsea may pay a little bit too much for him, but taking inflation into account we spent 50m for Mendy 6 years ago, who became the biggest flop ever this is not a bad transfer for them at all especially with Chilwell very injury prone and now they can let Alonso off the wage list and get some price out of Barca maybe.

 

[nellyonthewing]

Looks like all we did is find out what the ‘real price’ is so Chelsea can buy him.

 

[franksinatra]

It's odd because reports were Chelsea walked away from the Aké deal after being quoted far less for him by City than they're reportedly being quoted for Cucurella by Brighton.

Why walk away from a former club trained academy product, experienced PL player & longstanding Netherlands international, then potentially pay £20m more for one PL season, one international cap Cucurella?

Summats not adding up here! :-/

I think the likelihood is they walked away from the Ake deal because they got advised Kounde was coming onto the market and considered he had a higher ceiling than Ake so targetted him instead.

 

[Keeper!]

Assuming Cucurella does end up at Chelsea then you have to say Brighton’s approach has been vindicated. They’ll have got about £10m more for the player than we were willing to pay. Shame, as he looked ideal for us but can understand why we felt the fee was too high.

Never understood the hate directed to Brighton from some on here, 10m to them is a huge amount, and they took the initial risk on the player, great bit of business by them.

 

[CityBluez]

It's odd because reports were Chelsea walked away from the Aké deal after being quoted far less for him by City than they're reportedly being quoted for Cucurella by Brighton.

Why walk away from a former club trained academy product, experienced PL player & longstanding Netherlands international, then potentially pay £20m more for one PL season, one international cap Cucurella?

Summats not adding up here! :-/

They thought they were getting kounde.

 

[Keeper!]

I think the likelihood is they walked away from the Ake deal because they got advised Kounde was coming onto the market and considered he had a higher ceiling than Ake so targetted him instead.

Ake is never a 50m player in a million years, especially compared to the Koulibaly for 33m.

 

[Great Kompany]

I still think this is bad judgement and arrogance at the part of City to not even reach the 50 mil suggested and wait for players agitation to do its part.

This is one billionaire talking to another billionaire with extremely fragile egos. Very difficult to twist arms esp of English clubs who are all infused with Cash. A Torres from Valencia may work but dealing with Bloom Levy, that’s totally different

We over emphasised on Kane tantrums and his moronic agent and we did the same over here.

This is an approach I have seen Daniel Levy take a whole lot of time when he would penny pinch on primarily target till the last transfer week and then suddenly the deal falls through.

 

[waspish]

Assuming Cucurella does end up at Chelsea then you have to say Brighton’s approach has been vindicated. They’ll have got about £10m more for the player than we were willing to pay. Shame, as he looked ideal for us but can understand why we felt the fee was too high.

Something must be going on about breaking even money wise because if it is 53m for a 23/24 year old is “reasonable” considering what we paid in the past for players!


This on going investigating from the premier have we done some sort of deal that we will not over spend and have net spend of a certain amount? Or is this new Pffp of a 3 year of 90%80%70% wages % of income making us be cautious?

 

[Longballutd]

Koulibaly is 31

 

[oakiecokie]

I still think this is bad judgement and arrogance at the part of City to not even reach the 50 mil suggested and wait for players agitation to do its part.

This is one billionaire talking to another billionaire with extremely fragile egos. Very difficult to twist arms esp of English clubs who are all infused with Cash. A Torres from Valencia may work but dealing with Bloom Levy, that’s totally different

We over emphasised on Kane tantrums and his moronic agent and we did the same over here.

This is an approach I have seen Daniel Levy take a whole lot of time when he would penny pinch on primarily target till the last transfer week and then suddenly the deal falls through.

What a load of crap !!
Just because City don`t agree on the same valuation of player makes us arrogant ?
FFS grow a pair.
I`m glad you`re noy holding the purse strings at City.