Marc Cucurella

[waspish]

Just think JWB plays 30 games does well we have a 50m player on our hands

 

[crazyg]

Chelski got fleeced

It's not Chelski anymore.
It's Chel$ea.

 

[Keeper!]

I get the fact not alot of people rate Zin on this forum, but I think you'll be eating your words. I think at Arsenal he will show the Premier League how good he is when played regularly, as will Gabriel Jesus.

A superb little squad player, amazing attitude but often very ordinary and when under pressure at LB a weakness.

 

[RandomJ]

Gutted we didn’t get him as I felt he was the missing piece of the puzzle for our team. Fair play to Brighton though. They wanted silly money and found someone willing to pay it.

 

[Kamaro011]

Just think JWB plays 30 games does well we have a 50m player on our hands

Hope he is not too injury prone this season, that's the only thing that can hinder his development.

 

[Centurions]

This one burnt me, so after this one I’m no longer saying. The information can be 100% correct but then change in a matter of minutes, hours or days.

Some people here know this but a lot of people seem to take offence to it.

I personally wouldn't sweat it all bud, what you say should be obvious to anyone but it seems to be the world we live in now.

 

[BlueBanger]

Far too much romance about Zinchenko, people thinking he was far better than reality.

Based largely off his final performance against villa.

 

[ninjamonkey]

Crazy money but only because I don't see him as a neccessity for Chelsea who have Chilwell and a somewhat competent Alonso. If they were as desperate for a left back as us and not have glaring weaknesses elsewhere that need fixing, then £60 million could provide value. But given they do have issues elsewhere, that £60 million should have gone on a centre back or a forward, they can improve their squad much more with £60 million spent elsewhere than they just have with cucurella. I see it similar to Grealish for us, spent well over the odds on a player that doesn't improve our starting 11.

Anyway, I don't think he was ever the perfect answer for us, a good fit but surely not the only fit. we're looking for cancelo's backup, cucurella himself was a nobody at Getafe 12 months ago, we have to have other targets, Txiki needs to get moving on this.

 

[halfcenturyup]

Now we can finally close this thread.

This thread never hurt anybody. It's the people posting in it who have turned it into a circus. Maybe we should be closing a few of them.

 

[BlueBanger]

35M for Zinchenko was a great deal for us, if he was so good and a bargain why did he not seem to have any other clubs knocking his door down?

Probably because not many teams knew his best position...he was a midfielder covering LB. Arteta in a somewhat unique position in that regard.