Marc Cucurella

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AirbagsOptionalTheReturn said:
Well said, some of the comments on here are embarrassing, we are now in danger of sounding and acting like the fans of the Scum and Dippers that we despise. We have been spoilt that we have not had to sell unless we wanted to for such a long time now, I think some fans have forgotten or even aren't old enough to remember who tough it is on a team's fans when a better team comes in for your best player, lets try and be more humble!
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Given you went off.....are you now Cat N?
 
Didsbury Dave said:
I think one of the best things about the club now is that we can use our reputation to turn player's heads, and use that to prize them from their clubs. I've no issue with that: it's a dog eat dog world in football and I want the best for City.
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As Barcelona and Real did for years, as Bayern does with the entire Bundesliga, as United did when they prised away Rooney from Everton, as Liverpool did when they prised away John Barnes from Watford. It happens. But actually, I don't find the expression “turning a player's head” very useful. It sounds as though we've slipped something in their drink. Like date rape or something.

It's just this: you're a good athlete, at a respectable, but middling, club. They're doing well, you're doing well. The club that has been champions for four seasons out of five (and second in the other one), who have been in CL football for the past decade, and will be for the foreseeable future, comes in for you, offering you double (or triple) what you're currently earning, to play alongside the best midfielder in the country (possibly in Europe) — nobody else in the entire squad is shabby, either — under the coaching of one of the best coaches — if not the best — that the game has seen, at least since Cruyff, his mentor.
The club you're at: they've been good to you, you've been good for them. You didn't grow up with them, you're not a boyhood fan, your dad probably knew nothing about them before they recruited you, you don't even come from their country.
You're no Steven Gerrard. You're no Pep Guardiola.
You would in fact have to be blind drunk not to want this deal to go through. No-one's head has been turned.
The only issue I have with BHA fans on this and their own forum talking about City's bid “unsettling” Cucurella: no bid has “unsettled” him. He was already unsettled. Like his agent.
 
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