Marc Cucurella

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Fully agree with Ahsan. It's the most important position to improve and we are playing a stubborn game when we need to sign one player. In one year, or two years it would be still the same unsolved problem. It's not a wish, but an obligation. Everyone is happy with Haaland, ok, but that unsolved problem is alarming.
 
£50 million doesn’t seem outlandish when you consider we could get 10 years out of him. Especially since we’ve made so much money in sales as well and paid a similar fee for Walker.

If they were asking for something stupid like £80 million then sure I’d get it but £50 million seems a strange hill to die on.
 
mj1991 said:


Fully agree with Ahsan. It's the most important position to improve and we are playing a stubborn game when we need to sign one player. In one year, or two years it would be still the same unsolved problem. It's not a wish, but an obligation.
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Maybe Cucurella’s price is more than we are prepared to pay.

Therefore the options are Raum/<all other available left backs> or keeping Zinchenko.

Then it will be up to Pep to either be happy to stick with OZ or we move on to another left back.
 
wolviedinho said:
Jack had a clause Cucu does not. We had no choice. We do have a choice on whether or not we want to be fleeced by Brighton. Walk away and keep Zin. If the latter is not possible buy the next on the list. Fuck Brighton and their passing about.
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I can't quite recall what Cucu was like defensively when we played Brighton, but I know he caused us grief going forward.

I like the player, so if it's £50m for an ex-Barça Spanish international with PL experience, then a deal of £40m - £45m plus add-ons might seal it.

£32m for Zinchenko softens the blow & we can still bid for Sosa or Raum & finally have 2 specialist Left Backs for circa £50m - £60m net which will hopefully resolve a problem area for us for the next few years.

If Juvé are seriously interested in Gundog, with a year left on his contract & a fee of £20m being mooted, we should go for FDJ. At 24/25 years old & a fee of £58m being discussed, he'd be a long term replacement for £40m-ish.

That would leave a possible Sterling replacement as the only hole needing to be filled without trying to fit square pegs into round holes, or risking a whole season on Cole Palmer being at the required level.

If we can manage to pull this lot off, this would be a fucking WOW transfer window for City & one which'll set us up for years to come, with serious money still left in our transfer reserves.
 
mj1991 said:


Fully agree with Ahsan. It's the most important position to improve and we are playing a stubborn game when we need to sign one player. In one year, or two years it would be still the same unsolved problem. It's not a wish, but an obligation.
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I don't really think many people celebrating Zinchenko maybe staying are also celebrating not signing a left back.

Most of the people on both sides still think a left back is an important signing and have been saying so for a couple of years.
 
kye1991 said:
I don't think we need the papers to convince us, just watch the video of him walking around in a slipper reversing his ranger Rover into numerous parked cars. When your 100million pound record signing has more hangovers in a season than match winning moments it tells its own story.
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Anyway this is the Cucu thread. I dont need to keep defending Grealish. Maybe his Land Rover’s reverse camera was broken -:)
 
Dribble said:
I can't quite recall what Cucu was like defensively when we played Brighton, but I know he caused us grief going forward.

I like the player, so if it's £50m for an ex-Barça Spanish international with PL experience, then a deal of £40m - £45m plus add-ons might seal it.

£32m for Zinchenko softens the blow & we can still bid for Sosa or Raum & finally have 2 specialist Left Backs for circa £50m - £60m net which will hopefully resolve a problem area for us for the next few years.

If Juvé are seriously interested in Gundog, with a year left on his contract & a fee of £20m being mooted, we should go for FDJ. At 24/25 years old & a fee of £58m being discussed, he'd be a long term replacement for £40m-ish.

That would leave a possible Sterling replacement as the only hole needing to be filled without fitting square pegs into round holes or risking a whole season on Cole Palmer being at the required level.

If we can manage to pull this lot off, this would be a fucking WOW transfer window for City & one which'll set us up for years to come, with serious money still left in our transfer reserves.
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Nope.
 
Dribble said:
I can't quite recall what Cucu was like defensively when we played Brighton, but I know he caused us grief going forward.

I like the player, so if it's £50m for an ex-Barça Spanish international with PL experience, then a deal of £40m - £45m plus add-ons might seal it.

£32m for Zinchenko softens the blow & we can still bid for Sosa or Raum & finally have 2 specialist Left Backs for circa £50m - £60m net which will hopefully resolve a problem area for us for the next few years.

If Juvé are seriously interested in Gundog, with a year left on his contract & a fee of £20m being mooted, we should go for FDJ. At 24/25 years old & a fee of £58m being discussed, he'd be a long term replacement for £40m-ish.

That would leave a possible Sterling replacement as the only hole needing to be filled without fitting square pegs into round holes or risking a whole season on Cole Palmer being at the required level.

If we can manage to pull this lot off, this would be a fucking WOW transfer window for City & one which'll set us up for years to come, with serious money still left in our transfer reserves.
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A wow window but a lot of changes. Not a fan of moving out some many players at once. Consistency would suffer.
 
wolviedinho said:
£100m fee is why people can’t appreciate his performances. If it was £50m then the lack of support would not exist. I have no doubts he will start to deliver higher performances but he still might never be able to do enough to justify the fee in some people eyes.
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Agree with the point behind this, it puts a weight and a scrutiny on him.

I don't think it is a case of people not appreciating his performancee though, which suggests he has actually been very good and folk just fail to see it. For me it is a case of he hasn't shown that much last season, and people emphasise this more because of the price.

Either way, he needs to affect things a lot more this season and have a much bigger contribution. Particularly with outgoing players not being replaced by additional signings.
 
Tugay One Cup said:
I don't really think many people celebrating Zinchenko maybe staying are also celebrating not signing a left back.

Most of people on both sides still think a left back is an important signing and have been saying so for a couple of years.
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Yeah, but instead of solving problems (buying one or creating a natural LB like Bayern with Davies), we are playing in a stubborn game while we need an urgent upgrade on this position. We have much more things to do in 2023 than thinking about signing a left-back (Gundogan's replacing, possibly Bernardo, right winger, etc.) than focusing on left-back. We are talking too long about that position and still, nothing has been done. I have an impression that nobody is focusing on this position seriously. "Let's try Ake", "Let's try Zinchenko", "Let's try Cancelo", but we have not signed a proper one for ages. So if we are not prepared, when will we be prepared? :)))
 
mj1991 said:
Yeah, but instead of solving problems (buying one or creating a natural LB like Bayern with Davies), we are playing in a stubborn game while we need an urgent upgrade on this position. We have much more things to do in 2023 than thinking about signing a left-back (Gundogan's replacing, possibly Bernardo, right winger, etc.) than focusing on left-back. We are talking too long about that position and still, nothing has been done. I have an impression that nobody is focusing on this position seriously. "Let's try Ake", "Let's try Zinchenko", "Let's try Cancelo", but we have not signed a proper one for ages. So if we are not prepared, when will we be prepared? :)))
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No idea.

Realistically, there's no reason I can think of why we haven't signed one unless we're financially in the shit but that's not really plausible.
 
There's still 6 weeks left - time is on our side

Brighton will be doing work behind the scenes to get a replacement lined up - i really think this one is just a matter of time.

Also we've just won 4 out of 5 PL's, worst case scenario we don't get him - we've done alright for the past 5 years without a natural LB
 
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