Arguably, Brighton see Cucu as a better and more important player for them than Ben White. And we as fans probably agree that Cucu is the better player. It would be surprising and even suspicious if they didn't want 50m for Cucu. He's probably a bit expensive from our perspective, but from Brighton's? The quality of their play may suffer significantly without him.
Would be surprised if we signed him for 40m. Cucu's a fundamental player for them. Be interesting what happens this week. If there's no news, we will move on, imo.