Marc Cucurella

[Dobsy]

Remember when Chelsea offered £20m for SWP and we said no? Then they closed it at £21m. Yeah.

Maybe we'll meet in the middle, maybe we won't. I think it sends a very bad signal from Brighton for their future transfers activity, if they reject reasonable bids, but also £30m isn't reasonable.

We paid £50m for Walker and Mendy when they had CL experience, so something between, like £40m, seems fair. I'm also sure that £40m would secure Raum or Sosa so City would walk away.

 

[SleepingBlueTiger]

Strange situation, I don't think we are usually a club who deliberately starts lowballing a player in hopes for unsettling but I don't think there's much hope of a deal under 50M. Who can blame Brighton aswell when we have paid 50M for multiple fullbacks who were rated similarly at the time.

If we have no intention to reach that amount then I'm not exactly sure what good offers like these do. Leaving things late usually means generating pressure on the selling club but I'm not sure Brighton have that pressure.

 

[Tugay One Cup]

The Brighton fans are giving it large over on twitter

Fair play, I would be doing the same thing if I was them.

 

[Fat Jim]

It is amazing how that the word "fanny" has been kept alive on football forums. I like to imagine us all sat here in flares with space-hoppers, handing our pregnant girlfriends a cigarette, like a set of extras from "Life on Mars".

Word of warning then, out there they call them "fanny packs"...
Cause fanny means your arse over there...
... not your minge.

 

[Fat Jim]

My main fear would be Walker could pick up a knock which could feasibly put him out for 4-6 weeks - then we'd literally just be left with Cancelo and tbh he's not the most convincing at RB - I'd hate to go in to a game against Liverpool, Spurs etc with a make shift back 4

that would be the worst case situation to be fair.

RB - Walker
CB - Diaz Laporte
LB - Cancello

we have cover at CB but as you say Walker or cancello get injured (which they will its a long season with a world cup) you start looking at stones or ake full back which is not great.

The further we get from the zinchenko deal the worse it looks imo

 

[Fat Jim]

45m plus add ons gets him over the line I hope

 

[Tugay One Cup]

Remember when Chelsea offered £20m for SWP and we said no? Then they closed it at £21m. Yeah.

Maybe we'll meet in the middle, maybe we won't. I think it sends a very bad signal from Brighton for their future transfers activity, if they reject reasonable bids, but also £30m isn't reasonable.

We paid £50m for Walker and Mendy when they had CL experience, so something between, like £40m, seems fair. I'm also sure that £40m would secure Raum or Sosa so City would walk away.

We just sold Zinchenko for £32m.

I refuse to believe anyone at City is stupid enough to think they can get Cucurella for less.

 

[DeBlueLou]

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looks like the tavares reports are bollocks

Ouff, that sucks!

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

I genuinely don't believe we've 'gone and bid' £30m, just like that, at this stage in the window. I just don't see that as anything other tha headlines. I didn't believe arsenal and chelsea had bid 30m for Gabi and Raz either. It goes against the professional workings of the club, to be playing roll the dice on a fee, knowing it won't cut it. Might be alone in that, I'm ok with it.

You are not alone...

I won't post that paedo's music on here...

 

[jimmy blue shoes]

Word of warning then, out there they call them "fanny packs"...
Cause fanny means your arse over there...
... not your minge.

 

[Cricket Blue]

Brighton fans acting like seagulls on a pier

 

[Chappie]

At least it will be the end of knobhead brighton fans coming into a City forum telling us what we can and can’t do

They will leave our forum when Cucu leaves them.

 

[Perseus]

That just sounds plain stupid considering we sold zinchenko. Aguero i understand because he wasn't able to play and was constantly injured. But there was absolutely no need to sell zinchenko if we have no intentions to sign a LB.
Have to wait and see

If there isn't an alternative to Cucurella, there is no replacement available for Brighton which is where the money will go. Like a chain. Same as Villa with Grealish replacements, but not like Ben White. PS: Bayern have got a lot of left backs!

 

[failsworthblueboy]

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looks like the tavares reports are bollocks

Heaven must be missing an Angel.

 

[Nicholas van Whatsisface]

The Brighton fans are giving it large over on twitter

Bless!

Let them have their moment in the spotlight.

Remember - we were like that once.

 

[daztrueblue91]

The full back situation cost us the CL last season IMO. There’s no way the club allows Zinchenko to leave without bringing in a LB.

 

[Tartarian Blue]

Brighton fans acting like seagulls on a pier

 

[Jokithedruid]

The full back situation cost us the CL last season IMO. There’s no way the club allows Zinchenko to leave without bringing in a LB.

We will bring one, there are alternatives. Easier to get too.

 

[lol yank]

The full back situation cost us the CL last season IMO. There’s no way the club allows Zinchenko to leave without bringing in a LB.

We didn’t have a no 9 last year. Yes they will.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Feels like we new early on that this one will be hard work and as such we put it off till we knew what selling business was done

Possibly, more likely we have no concerns Cucurella was going to end up elsewhere and could afford to play the longer game?

It was a risky strategy with Kane, but we are talking different postcodes, certainly in regards the numbers.

As with most full-backs we sign, we will creep up to £50m and then probably agree to a bit more in add-ons.