Marc Cucurella

[ancoats]

City have an official opening bid of £30million turned down by Brighton,

I know it's Manchester city and everybody will try and bleed us dry, but a bit silly letting zinchenko leave before we had a replacement, we are now wide open with silly asking prices by clubs for their left-backs

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

City have an official opening bid of £30million turned down by Brighton,

I know it's Manchester city and everybody will try and bleed us dry, but a bit silly letting zinchenko leave before we had a replacement, we are now wide open with silly asking prices by clubs for their left-backs

I’ll say the same thing to you as you’ve posted the same thing for some reason.

Brighton are not in a stronger position now. They have a valuation. This was the same on the 1st June as it is today.

Why did you think it necessary to repeat your redundant point again today?

 

[blue ranger]

We WANT a left back. We do not NEED one. We seemingly WANT Cucurella. We do not NEED Cucurella.

It's worth noting that we have won four league titles with our only specialist LB making an occasional appearance (often, low quality). Saying that, I would like us to sign one as it could potentially improve the team.

We do need a left back. I think we needed a fullback before we sold Zinchenko. Now we only have 2. So we do need 1 imo. An injury to Walker or Cancelo and we are goosed. Will definitely sign one.

 

[foggy1974]

But anything less than £50m people will say Bloom gave in to city demands. That will work well whenever a player is wanted at Brighton just lowball an offer and we can say that you managed to get as much as possibke for him.

We know Pep is keen on Cucu and wants him however maybe your board are not convinced he is worth the price tag, no player is worth what they are sold for. Your board may have said ok Pep we will try but were not paying the full price, you low ball Bloom says no you come back with a slightly better offer thats rejected, you walk away and say sorry Pep we done our best.

Some on hear think its a done deal, i dont think so, i think Bloom will go down to £40 to £45 million plus addons to take it above 50.

Why would we sell Zinchenko for £30m if its not 99% done as all deals can collapse until its confirmed & hes sat next to Tixiki.
I thought in another tweet you said Bloom is looking for a big deal so is 3 times what you paid for him 12 months ago not that, If Bloom & BHA are looking at 60m+ then it won't happen as we've walked away from deals we don't think are value for money.. The reasonable posters on here reckon that its done for around £45m to £50m when you include the add ons.
We went through a similar senario with Grealish last season

 

[johnnytapia]

Buy back Zinch for £100 mill

A reverse Bill Williams

 

[Deleted member 77198]

What are the realistic alternatives?

Not overly keen on Sosa from the little I've seen of him. Raum has looked good the couple of times I've watched him but neither of them look great defensively and that's something I was looking forward to with Cucurella.

Are there any other well rounded options out there?

That Gosens looked brilliant for Atalanta for a while but he seems to have disappeared.

 

[Sheikh rattle and roll]

What is a fair price? No player goes for a fair price. Every club will will have a price that they put on a players head, so far Brighton want £50m. Overpriced yes can you get Bloom to lower i dont know.

£42.875 million plus 5m more if we win the Champs league or complete the domestic treble in the next 3 years and Cucurella plays 50 percent of games during the season we win either
There job done
You happy with that

 

[Gumzy97]

What are the realistic alternatives?

Not overly keen on Sosa from the little I've seen of him. Raum has looked good the couple of times I've watched him but neither of them look great defensively and that's something I was looking forward to with Cucurella.

Are there any other well rounded options out there?

We were linked to Mitchel of crystal palace. English left back

 

[h4wkward]

If they want 50M for Cucurella we should look elsewhere. Sure, he's their player of the year and is "premier league proven" but he will be a squad player for us. Cancelo will still start over him in important matches so 50M is too much.

 

[Cobwebcat]

To be fair Grealish had a buy out clause so the process would have been different.