Marc Cucurella

[Keeper!]

More likely than not.

It would make the situation even more troubled of he does.

 

[BlueRain]

Wouldn't this just play out beautifully if Cucurella turned out to be a bit shit?

lets face it - 12 months ago he was "just" a £15m player signing for Brighton (no disrespect to Brighton) and now he's an amazing £50m LB? After one season???

 

[loio]

London is closer to the Barcelona beach than Manchester.. maybe he can commute daily to the beach in Brighton lol

*He loved the beach in Brighton.

 

[SWP's back]

No chance, people getting a bit giddy.

Of course he’s better defensively than both. My dog is almost as good as either of them defensively.

 

[Txiki Txiki Bang Bang]

Surely we need a better ending to this saga. There's almost 1000 pages here.

 

[Kamaro011]

Wouldn't this just play out beautifully if Cucurella turned out to be a bit shit?

lets face it - 12 months ago he was "just" a £15m player signing for Brighton (no disrespect to Brighton) and now he's an amazing £50m LB? After one season???

Don't think he will like playing as wing back in 3-4-3, he will struggled to adapt for sure.

 

[SWP's back]

Fair play to Chelsea. Great fit for them will play as lcb and a wing back like he does at Brighton. Pleased cucurella gets his move but absolutely gutted from our perspective.

Hugely fucked this up. Bloom comes out of this well we look a bit daft imo

Yep. Big win for Chelsea.

Let’s hope we move quickly for another target. Hopefully one with a release clause which is our specialty.

 

[HelloCity]

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.

We ended up getting Dias instead of Koulibaly and Haaland instead of Kane :)

 

[domalino]

“Wasted months” means we’ve been chasing a player all summer who we were never going to pay the required fee for, and now have 1 month to try and find someone in budget, it’s not a difficult concept.

It might not be "difficult" but it's complete bullshit as a concept.

The club will have had a list of 3+ options for LB by January, and while Cucurella might have been identified as the preferred choice, they'll also have laid the groundwork for the other options. We know this because they literally shot a documentary showing a transfer planning meeting.

This entire "wasted months" thing is embarrassing, it only exists in your head.

And yeah, maybe they'll decide to get someone in the next few weeks like Dias when the Koulibaly move broke down, or maybe they'll do what they did with Mahrez, Rodri and Haaland and decide to get a better candidate in January, or next summer, and that will be because they've decided that the PL TOTS LB, and Wilson-Esbrand and Aké is enough for that amount of time.

 

[LangleyBlue1970]

I wonder if our resident flock of seagulls will now move to Chelsea’s Forum?

If they Listen they will…