Marc Cucurella

[Zenmanc]

We've gotten a decent return on our out going players, we've paid under the odds thus far for our incoming players. If this reaches 50... It's over what we want to spend but given that's a spot we really need to get covered... I'd say it evens out. City tax being what it is these days were lucky they aren't asking 60-70.

 

[Coatigan]

Love Pep. But, respectfully, he's talking absolute horse shit there and he knows it.

Indeed he is. Zinchenko an important player, what's he on about, bit-part fringe player!

 

[Sunset]

I really don't see this and us keeping Bernardo as the same thing. Bernardo situation is very similar to us not selling ake.
If Brighton are unwilling to sell because they don't have a replacement line up, it would have been the same

They want 50 mil and we haven’t given them 50 mil yet. It’s on us to make it happen not them. They were the ones who took a risk last year and bought him and now he’s they’re player not ours.

Just because we want someone and they want us doesn’t mean we deserve them.

Why would they even sell to us for 45 when they know they can get that exact same price next year as well.

 

[vicblueman]

Brighton want to get the best price for themselves, Whats wrong with that ?
Up the bid to 35-40m ,if they don't accept it move on & go for raum .

 

[Dax777]

And they're being incredibly smug and arrogant on Reddit as well.

Of course, that's Reddit's business as usual, so take that with a boulder of salt.

As they should. I don't understand the angst I see regarding how Brighton fans feel. They shouldn't want their best player sold. And they don't! This is normal.


What's abnormal is City fans feeling aggrieved by their stance or attitude.

I feel exactly like a Brighton fan as it relates to Bernado and Barcelona. My attitude is fuck them. And I hope they rot. But that's just me. So I can't turn around and get all smug if a Brighton fan isn't happy with our swooping.


I believe it would get done. But Im okay with any emotions Brighton fans have :)

 

[CityBluez]

They want 50 mil and we haven’t given them 50 mil yet. It’s on us to make it happen not them. They were the ones who took a risk last year and bought him and now he’s they’re player not ours.

Just because we want someone and they want us doesn’t mean we deserve them.

Why would they even sell to us for 45 when they know they can get that exact same price next year as well.

I agree .
But my point how it's different from us keeping Bernardo. We aren't keeping Bernardo solely for money but because we don't have his replacement lined up yet. In our recent history if a half decent offer arrives and player wants to go it's not about money anymore.

 

[Edward Deadwood]

He wasn’t a fullback until last season.

Don’t worry about posters who are already using the walk away rhetoric.

Unless Bloom is asking for silly money, this will likely get done around the £45m mark, or it won’t and both teams carry on.

Ees a football.

Well thank you very much.

Almost a month this has been stuck inside my head.

"Marc Cucurella, Maaaaark Cucurella...."

To the tune of Sade’s Smooth Operator?

 

[Cellarite]

To the tune of Sade’s Smooth Operator?

Yep. I even played Sade whilst in the shower last night.

 

[DMA's]

I realise odds don’t mean a great deal in transfers (unless bloom is having a little dabble on this one) but the odds on cucurella joining have increased. He is still odds on to join but it is tightening.

Probably just a reaction to this mornings news but worth noting all the same

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

OK, this is crazy, but just consider this scenario for a second. Just bear with me.
City and Brighton have done all the work behind the scenes. It was kept watertight. Not Naylor, not Romano, not anybody, is in on it. The working price is already agreed on. Bloom asks — or City suggests — put in a really low bid in the first instance, publicly. We will of course reject it out of hand, very publicly. You will go up. We will reject again. Some hard negotiations appear to be going on. Another bid, we reject.
All of this a publicly played out piece of theatre.
When City get publicly to the price that was already agreed on privately, we, Brighton and Hove Albion, I, Tony Bloom, will grudgingly accept. Face has been saved all round. City get their man. Brighton get their wodge of money. Their fans are happy because they've been seen to be tough negotiators.
Just musing on that this afternoon as an alternative way of reading everything that's going on.