Marc Cucurella

[fuskarn]

worth to note that brighton are getting colwill, a young, very good prospect on a loan, so chelsea are also essentially paying for his development, still an overpay though

 

[Dr Jacoby]

It isn’t. It’s the going rate.

It will make him one of the most expensive full-backs ever.

 

[Tony - MCFC]

£62m is obscene, absolutely outrageous.

Well done City walking away.

 

[johnnytapia]

We have lost out by not paying 62 million for a player who’s had one average season ? Ok hahaha

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

 

[Pollocksheader]

Future and current Brighton players won’t give a solitary fuck about this. In fact, they’ll look and think the Chairman has ensured they move for the biggest and best possible fee.

Players may care surely.

 

[johnnytapia]

It will make him one of the most expensive full-backs ever.

Yep.

 

[argyle]

How much did we get for Sterling?

Should have got £60m+ for him if we knew their new owner was mad.

 

[Rebelblue]

Txiki masterclass as usual. Unbelievable how we control the market. Chels guy is obviously a lunatic.

 

[markprendy]

I’ll take pannings all day, every day if we pile up the trophies. It really isn’t an “insane “ fee. It was probably 25-30% higher than our offer. “Insane” would be offering 100-150 million. 55-60 million for a player under contract in the prem, who has the potential to help the team run the league/ champs league etc is other going rate. Chelsea have beaten us to it on this one. No denying it, no covering or buttering it up with talk of “over the odds “ etc. Plain and simple, we’ve lost out here.

 

[mattyb]

Looks like a Cash+Player is going to do it as per our early (and only) bid… the only difference is we weren’t prepared to have our pants pulled down on the cash side