Marc Cucurella

[DMA's]

Do find it hard to fathom that we are the same club who spent £100 mil on grealish but won’t pay £50 mil for cucurella.

Yes I know grealish was a release clause but we didn’t have to target him. I said last summer I don’t think grealish is anywhere near worth £100 mil and I still don’t now. He doesn’t even get into our best starting line up

Where as £50 mil for a top quality lb seems a fair price to me. Especially as we have bought full backs for that price previously.

 

[oakiecokie]

This is spot on

pep says in the media we are OK if we don't sign a left back, but the truth is clear we are short of a left back and the BIGGER teams will see it as our weakness and hurt us, wilson esbrand is an option, but again pep would never throw him in the deep end and play him as our main left back because of his age

just go a rewatch the Liverpool game from the weekend our defence at times got found out down the left
I never fancy cancelo playing left back in the bigger games and even the left centre back covers far too much because cancelo pushes up far too much and sometimes forget his defences' duty

For me his biggest defensive weakness is moving constantly into the middle of the defence and marks no-one, which gives players like Salah the freedom of the park and by fuck we were found wanting in that dept and not for the first time.

 

[VOOMER]

Yes, but also we start the season with the pairing that played most of last season and for the vast majority of games and were very good, no reason why they won't be this month.

And when they both get injured, as they both did last season, we now have only youngsters and and 3 centre half's (of the four we actually have) who can fill in at full back. Its an effing shambles.

 

[Keeper!]

River Plates valuation was between 15-20m, so that wasn’t really “below”. 45m for Phillips from a relegation scrap club isn’t “underpaying” either in my book.

45m for Phillips was a great deal, proper player and very reasonable price.

 

[Agueroooo9320]

Do find it hard to fathom that we are the same club who spent £100 mil on grealish but won’t pay £50 mil for cucurella.

Yes I know grealish was a release clause but we didn’t have to target him. I said last summer I don’t think grealish is anywhere near worth £100 mil and I still don’t now,

Where as £50 mil for a top quality lb seems a fair price to me. Especially as we have bought full backs for that price previously.

this is why you do not run the club business. grealish is easily worth 100 mil while cucurella is not worth 50 mil

 

[PragueBlue]

I'm sorry but it appears that we aren't going to pay more than our valuation. I hope some on here are a bit more frugal with their own money.

 

[Bournemouth Blue]

By being held to ransom we are just setting a precedent for the future, Brighton want to hang onto him if Chelsea or we meet the valuation, we don’t value him at £50m so walk away and let Chelsea try, there are more options out there without paying over the odss.

 

[Blue_Lightsaber]

Omar Berrada and Txiki together tbh

There’s definitely an issue with them thinking we can get players cheaper than the club are willing to sell for Koulibaly, Kane and Cucurella 3 summers on the bounce.

Would you rather be banned from CL football for FFP violations?

The numbers have to work when everyone and their mother want City to fail under FFP.

You have a brain.. use it to think.. because there are financial traps everywhere.

Or have you forgotten that we got screwed with only 17 players in Europe because our numbers weren't good enough for FFP not that long ago.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

Do find it hard to fathom that we are the same club who spent £100 mil on grealish but won’t pay £50 mil for cucurella.

Yes I know grealish was a release clause but we didn’t have to target him. I said last summer I don’t think grealish is anywhere near worth £100 mil and I still don’t now,

Where as £50 mil for a top quality lb seems a fair price to me. Especially as we have bought full backs for that price previously.

Simple, because Pep wanted Grealish more than he does Cucurella. There is no other possible reason, apart from we dont have the money to pay more than £40m which is very unlikely.

 

[Keeper!]

One was a release clause, one wasn’t? This doesn’t come off as well as you thought.

Why?

We could have bought Kane , the manager very much wanted him, probably more than Haaland but been patient we have signed the best young striker on the planet for a 3rd of the price and Kane last season had a mare by his standards.