Marc Cucurella

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dachoosen1 said:
I back our club, as fans of other clubs back theirs. I don't consider our fanbase as entitled and I like most on here are more then happy to move on to another target or roll with what we have. The situation here has be become amplified by a number of Brighton fans expressing the opinion (which I'm happy to have on the forum) that bloom laughed at our opening offer and that bloom is expecting at least 50mil and won't negotiate as he got 50mil for white something along those lines and our fans are defending our valuation and clubs stance. You are 100% right in that a club can set whatever value they want on a player and we can either pay or move on to other targets but City at the minute have been doing their best to accommodate players that are looking to move and alot of our fans are hoping Brighton would do the same.
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Its not the same. We were alright with the likes of Bissouma, Ostigard, Taylor Richards (remember him) being sold. Even players like Duffy and Clarke if they go.

Cucrella is our player of the season and City have offered a fraction of the price we value him at.

It is worth repeating, he wants to go to you, we are willing to sell him to you, that has never been in dispute. We are not going to be pushed around by you.

i have seen so many things written on this site including sometimes you act like your interested in a player as a smoke screen to signing another player.

I honestly think if you sign him it will be for a package over £50m. Thats the compromise. Cucurella is being professional at least at the moment. So there is no pressure on us. We have laid our cards on the table from the very beginning. Nothing has changed YET.
 
Keeper! said:
We have been ripped plenty of times well before the present ownership, a player is valued by his present club, either pay or move along, but 50m in this market and for a club that has paid 50m plus for 3 previous FB, is not unreasonable.
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It’s not unreasonable.

Nor is it unreasonable for City to value Cucurella less than the £50+ million they paid on the other full backs.

Walker and Cancelo remain far superior players to him and Mendy was widely regarded as the best young LB in Europe when we signed him.

I also think City have learned the lesson from Mendy and are not going to overpay on the back of one good season. After all, Mendy was a disaster of a signing even before his legal issues.

Do I think £30 million is a lowball offer? Most definitely.

However, talk of a fee over £50 million is equally taking the piss.
 
AdamMarrett said:
That's a nothing comment that is. He's a professional footballer, he's going to do his job regardless of transfer speculation or ongoing talks between the two clubs.

We'll either buy the lad or we won't and we'll move onto another target, simple as that.
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Then whats the rubbish people talk about that if you don't get him we have an unhappy player, if hes garunteed to do his job anyway.
 
daztrueblue91 said:
It’s not unreasonable.

Nor is it unreasonable for City to value Cucurella less than the £50+ million they paid on the other full backs.

Walker and Cancelo remain far superior players to him and Mendy was widely regarded as the best young LB in Europe when we signed him.

I also think City have learned the lesson from Mendy and are not going to overpay on the back of one good season. After all, Mendy was a disaster of a signing even before his legal issues.

Do I think £30 million is a lowball offer? Most definitely.

However, talk of a fee over £50 million is equally taking the piss.
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20m difference is not a lot of money in top level football, IF he is a player the club want.

Maybe we have other deals lined up and have to be careful with our spend?
 
alexmcity said:
He's hoping the deal will happen.

He's desperate to join City, that much is certain. He has the chance to join one of the 2-3 strongest teams in the world and such a chance may not come in the next transfer windows.

That said, it's your right to keep him and insist on your valuation. It's risky but such a decision may pay off, it's not impossible.
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I believe he wants to join you. He will be very happy and all that. But he is not showing he is desperately unhappy to stay. People talk about player power, he isn't showing that yet.
 
hilts said:
Not sure what the problem is with other fans discussing the possible transfer of their player to us is.
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They don’t want to sell him for £30m, would prefer to keep him and like their chairman playing hardball.

It doesn't fit in with the narrative that we need to bid £40m by Tuesday brunch and walk away if we’ve not heard by afternoon tea time on Wednesday.
 
Bahahaa said:
Blimey. £50m + means it could be £55m, £60m or even £70m! Nobody knows, I can’t see why some can’t see that? It really ain’t rocket science.
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Nobody knows but you're stating 50m+ hahahaha, it obviously is rocket science for you. Until Tony Bloom DECLARES the price then its all speculation, does that make it easier for you when you're plucking figures out of the air.
 
moomba said:
Anyone insulted by a £30m bid is a drama queen.

Less than you hoped for, probably. Reject it by all means. But insulting? Do me a favour.
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Yes when you let it be known that you are working on a template of the White deal, then the other people ignore that and bid just over half that then how is that not insulting?

It like you holding out the palm of your hand saying blah blah blah, don't care heres our offer.
 
anotherbrightonfan said:
I believe he wants to join you. He will be very happy and all that. But he is not showing he is desperately unhappy to stay. People talk about player power, he isn't showing that yet.
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That's a good thing he isn't showing he's unhappy at Brighton, it's called respect, to the the club and supporters. It shows he's a decent guy.

However, he's had his head turned by us and that is called ambition. He can either join us playing CL football or sit on Brighton beach eating chips waiting for a seagull to dollop a bit of seagull mayo over them.
 
jrb said:
We had the same reaction form Arsenal fans when we bought their players. We had the same reaction from Everton fans when we bought Lescott, courtesy of Moyes sh*t stirring in the media. We had the same reaction from Spurs fans when we wanted to sign Kane. Fans of other clubs don’t like City buying their (best) players, which is understandable. If City had paid the asking price, whatever it is, instead of going in with a cheeky 1st offer, Brighton fans wouldn’t be so annoyed.

Like many other people I think £40mill-£45mill+add-ons should do it this week. Hopefully.

As no (bad) news for us is coming from either City or Brighton, it’s safe to say negotiations are still on-going. :-)
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And City fans have the same reaction to Barcelona. Fans behaving like fans.
 
Cricket Blue said:
Exactly
If reports were to be believed then we were not selling Ake without a replacement yet we did Exactly that with Zinchencko.
Why the difference?
I was very disappointed in the Zinchencko transfer.
This all points to a panic January buy the ways it's shaping up.
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Zinc wanted game time and wasn't a starter, behind Cancelo & Ake can play there. We also made £30m profit on Zinc, had Chelsea offered similar ie £70m then we'd have let him go if he wanted. The replacement for Ake was to get Chelsea to pay up or shut up, seeing as Kounde could be off, Barca supposedly gazumped them but how true who knows. They could be back in for him near the end of the window.
When has Tixiki & the board made a panic buying, if anything we likely sign nobody in January & wing it til the end of the season
 
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