Marc Cucurella

[metalblue]

Well, if 1,176,471 City fan's previously uninterested female relatives buy a Grealish shirt then we'll be about 10-15% of the way there.

Ah but if they now buy one every season for the next 20 years simply because they became fans after Grealish signed we’re quids in ;)

 

[OccupiedPalestineBlues]

I really hate the school holidays

Amen to that - this forum’s been invaded by children acting big and spouting off about how they know better than the team of professionals who run Manchester City, a club which is run so well that it’s used as a model for other clubs aspiring to be the best.
It’s getting like rawk on here.

 

[Tugay One Cup]

Oh please don’t

You have probably just started yet another round of “it goes to the club….no it goes to Puma…….when blah blah signed for the scum they blah blah”

Can’t be arsed with it today

 

[Mid Wales blue]

We bought Torres for 17m and sold him fot 55m 18 months and far fewer games played later. Dortmund bought Dembele for 15m and sold him for 110m 12 months later. There are lots of examples of players' fees vastly increasing, and being paid.

And how are the finances at the club that bought those players?

 

[alexmcity]

Absolutley. If we hadnt sold Zin and he'd played his whole career at City as a left back, you'd still get people saying "he's not a leftback".

He was - for us.

Many still think of teams as sums of 11 specialists. This is not even remotely close to how Pep understands football.

Our defensive record and our attacking record have been the best in Europe under Pep, even though we play without a 'specialist' LB and a 'specialist' striker (the last 2 seasons). Pep loves versatile players: any player from the keeper to the striker should be good on the ball, and every player from the striker to the keeper should help in defence.

To have the best defence is not to have the best (on paper) specialists defenders, and to have the best attack is not to have the best (on paper) specialist strikers, but to be the best as a team in defence and the best as a team in attack. Otherwise, Liverpool would have been champions in 4 of the last 5 seasons, they have the best specialists here, there and everywhere :) But finish below City!

 

[City Raider]

A Brighton fan threw a little bomb in with an ‘innocent’ question about Grealish value and got the reaction he wanted.

Nothing says we’re moving on like a bid on another player so if we are briefing the press, I’d expect phase two in next day or so linking us strongly with another lb. Bloom will then have a decision to make which makes his poker career look like child play. It’s not just the player’s future resting on it, it’s the culture of Brighton being a club that develops and sells. If they’re not that, what are they and who will they attract.

 

[Tugay One Cup]

And how are the finances at the club that bought those players?

I think Barca are financially undead. Their reanimated corpse spent about €50m yesterday.

 

[Orangutans4ever]

no we did not overpay however you judge it, Jack is worth 100 mil just in a financial marketing sense in addition to what he gives on the pitch. cucurella is worth 0 off the pitch.

...and there it is...all about the ! Good job most of the city fans appreciate him for his football ability unlike yourself. I can see Pep now...please can we sign Jack, think of the money he will bring to the club boss! PRICELESS

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Someone else stared that Grealish was worth 100m in marketing to the club, I just questioned how they arrived at that figure.

It’s irrelevant.

£100m was the price we had to pay to get Grealish. This is the power of a release clause. Worth didn’t come into it.

Cucurella doesn’t have a release clause, so we offer what we think he is worth.

 

[jimharri]

Can we please try to stick to the subject of the thread, and not get sidetracked into what other players are/aren't worth.