Marc Cucurella

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

So we have no proper left back ( how many years is that), injured centre back ( just as well we didn’t sell Ake) . We do some things spectacularly then appear amateurish in others.

Like winning four titles in five years?

 

[Kamaro011]

Like winning four titles in five years?

Being overreact is an MO around here, you only noticed now?

 

[Ajm1985]

No issue with moving on to another target. Surprised that Txiki et al thought Bloom would lower his valuation to the value they were willing to pay.

 

[Charlesfarsbar]

I think this is right but the fact that we ended in this situation was poor from the club. We dug a hole for ourselves here and can't get out anymore.

I'll repeat again what I've said here earlier but is still just as relevant. I don't think £50m is an extraordinary price and somehow I don't think the club actually thinks this way either. Countless players of similar quality have moved for that price this window and recently. You can't just ignore that and blindly keep repeating our valuation and expecting things to change. I mean all signs are showing our negotation stance is £40m and it is not that far off the asking price all things considering. We just started the negotiations from the wrong point and this principle of "winning" the negotation is now more important than the current squad quality despite handicapping ourselves earlier.

Are we really in a better place if we save that 10 millions and move to alternative player who the club obviously considers to be inferior? The fact that we still haven't moved on a week before the season seems to show that even the club is scared of moving to alternative.

Yes because otherwise we end up in the united position of paying the asking price for every player they go in for

eg £80m on Maguire , £50 on Wan Bissaca and £60m they have just spent on some no mark from the Dutch league

 

[Bill the Blue]

What's Luke Shaw up to?

His neck in discarded KFC chicken bones?

 

[Cotton Weave Blue]

How would you feel if the names were changed to Pep and Bernardo?

Potter: you ok cuc?
Cuc: not really gaffer. Really want to play for pep. My heads in bits.
Potter: mr Pep, cuc head all over the place. Not good for dressing room.
Pep: fuck you telling me for
Bernardo: brew?
Pep: in-cred-ible

 

[Goatmeal]

How would you feel if the names were changed to Pep and Bernardo?

Pep has already said he wouldn’t keep an unhappy player. If Bernardo puts in transfer request then let him go for as much as we can get. Probably not his worth to us though.

 

[samuelyeboah]

the notion that it's amateur to have an injured centerback is one of the most bluemoon things i've ever read

 

[SleepingBlueTiger]

Yes because otherwise we end up in the united position of paying the asking price for every player they go in for

eg £80m on Maguire , £50 on Wan Bissaca and £60m they have just spent on some no mark from the Dutch league

Signing Cucurella for 50m is not going to do that, signing Grealish for 100m though...

If we started Cucurella negotation from 40M, Brighton wanted 50m+ and in the end we compromiosed something like 45m+5m everyone would've forgotten this transfer fee in a week.

 

[Agueroooo9320]

I guess we got to the alternatives now

Raum really is the best second choice if we could get him.

Sosa is good but he's raw and more of a wing back I don't think hes that technically good either to play in a pep team

Grimaldo just don't see it, he had all that hype but is still at Benfica why? Has to be a reason he's not at another team right now.

Sosa is more technical than Raum. Raum is like luke shaw technical wise.