Marc Cucurella

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Bluewars said:
Considering we paid £41 Million for a back up CB in Ake, £60 Million for a defender with no International experience in Laporte and £52 Million for Mendy who had one good season in Ligue 1, £50 Million for Cucurella is not unreasonable.

When I criticised the scouting system I was corrected by a good post on how City's model is not to unearth unknown gems but to buy ready made players ready for the 1st team, well then why are we surprised Brighton value Cucurella at £50million, Shouldn't we be prepared to pay a premium when Brighton have taken the risk on an unproven player protected their invested with a long-term contract and the player has had a very successful debut season.

He is tailored made for Peps style of play, there isn't a left back in world football (that's available) better than him. Bottom line is the negotiation of this transfer has been a shambles and a PR exercise.
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Ake was £41m because he's association trained and can play LB, Laporte's international status was well known (and he's had to switch allegiance to play) and Mendy was brilliant in that Monaco team. None of those impacts on Cucurella's fee.

Is doubling your money not a premium nowadays? The rest of your middle paragraph makes no sense.

"Bottom line is the negotiation of this transfer has been a shambles and a PR exercise." is just bollocks.
 
Churchlawtonblue said:
Brighton now reported as wanting more than £50m . Definitely time to walk away City.
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They have Always been reported to want more than 50m. It has been 50m+ from day one. Sure, someone somehwere with no connection to either club said they thought 35m could be enough to sign him at one point. That was as much a guess as the 50m+ imo, but right or wrong you have to at least take the consistency of that 50m+ at face value. And the + is completely unknown too.

If we were going to walk away, would have done so some time go. There must be a reason the club are still at the table. Maybe they are ultimately ready to pay it just fancy a bit of a thrill of a gamble first, maybe they don't fancy any other targets. Maybe they want to show Cucurella a bit of token commitment, given he has pushed this at his end, or perhaps Tixiki genuinely thinks he can get it done for significantly less. Who knows.
 
yankblue said:
With all due respect, the situations with Bernardo and Cucurella are apples and oranges

And if Bernardo handed in a transfer request yes we should let him leave. Forcing a player who actively wants out to stay is never a good idea
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Didn't we kind of do that with Laporte and it ended really well since he doesn't want to leave anymore?
 
LucahArchie10 said:
City fucked up letting Zinchenko go 1st absalute Steel for Arsenal

Yes I understand it wasn't without tears but to let him go then try to sign a fullback its fucking really poor from Tixi
This isn't getting done now imo, Cancelo & Ake it is with young Josh as back up

Hope I'm wrong
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The transfer window is still open for another month so plenty of time to resolve the LB position if Txiki & Pep think we need to strengthen.
The time to judge the transfers ins & outs will be at the end of the season, not now.
 
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