[Albion] Marc Cucurella *Signed For Chelsea 05/08/2022*

[BN41Albion]

Blokes a ****ing cock. Hope he gets shit from our fans. Not many will though, we are way too wet for that.

Yeah shame on him for being keen to take the opportunity to move to a star studded champions league team with potential to challenge for trophies on all counts

 

[Guinness Boy]

No surprise here but Potter is quoted in today’s Argus as saying Cucu takes most of the credit for becoming a world record breaking signing for Chelsea

Of course. Typically generous and self deprecating.

I’ve never once thought Potter isn’t a genuinely top human being. I have wondered if that niceness was blunting our result getting edge. Turns out it wasn’t.

Anyway, we both know the truth and I think you always have


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[Green Cross Code Man]

Yeah shame on him for being keen to take the opportunity to move to a star studded champions league team with potential to challenge for trophies on all counts

Funny how a poster like that describes people with a mature understanding as 'wet'. I tend to believe it's the opposite.

 

[Swansman]

No surprise here but Potter is quoted in today’s Argus as saying Cucu takes most of the credit for becoming a world record breaking signing for Chelsea

Which is true obviously. Lets not get all benwhitey.

Cucurella was excellent when he arrived. I saw him a couple of years ago pretty much single-handedly eat Ajax alive in the Europa League.

Even better now and if he can do some work on his right foot and crossing/finishing, he'll be considered the best left back in the world pretty soon.

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

Yesterday's Hero.

I'm looking forward to seeing who we bring in as a replacement.

 

[Perfidious Albion]

I don’t blame Cucu for taking his opportunity. I am saddened at the club's preference, or need , for money over footballing excellence.
At the end of last season we were on the crest of a wave, 9th in the League and daring to dream of future success , even European football. Now we have lost not one but our two best players in the same transfer window.
Now we know. If the price is right we will sell anybody. Next year , I can see the South American boys being on their way if they do well, or Sanchez.. We are a selling club . We kidded ourselves that we had arrived among the big boys but we clearly have not the means to sustain it .
I see us back to bumping along the bottom of the Premier League until , one day , we are relegated. We may be the richest club in the Championship, or lower……..

 

[Swansman]

I don’t blame Cucu for taking his opportunity. I am saddened at the club's preference, or need , for money over footballing excellence.
At the end of last season we were on the crest of a wave, 9th in the League and daring to dream of future success , even European football. Now we have lost not one but our two best players in the same transfer window.
Now we know. If the price is right we will sell anybody. Next year , I can see the South American boys being on their way if they do well, or Sanchez.. We are a selling club . We kidded ourselves that we had arrived among the big boys but we clearly have not the means to sustain it .
I see us back to bumping along the bottom of the Premier League until , one day , we are relegated. We may be the richest club in the Championship, or lower……..

Welcome to reality.

 

[Springal]

Interesting quotes in the athletic story. He was close to joining Burnley , but chose us (we knew that as Cornet was also in play for both clubs right) but potter, the playing style and saying if a European CL club comes in and meets our asking price you can go in 2 years time. Obviously happened a year early but interesting ‘pitch’ when trying to sign players I guess

 

[Icy Gull]

I don’t blame Cucu for taking his opportunity. I am saddened at the club's preference, or need , for money over footballing excellence.
At the end of last season we were on the crest of a wave, 9th in the League and daring to dream of future success , even European football. Now we have lost not one but our two best players in the same transfer window.
Now we know. If the price is right we will sell anybody. Next year , I can see the South American boys being on their way if they do well, or Sanchez.. We are a selling club . We kidded ourselves that we had arrived among the big boys but we clearly have not the means to sustain it .
I see us back to bumping along the bottom of the Premier League until , one day , we are relegated. We may be the richest club in the Championship, or lower……..

I am surprised that any Albion fan can have a single complaint about how Tony Bloom is running this club. I am living the dream but well aware it will likely end at some stage. Relegation remains a possibility for any smaller club trying live within it's means. I can only say that if it was my pockets that had been emptied to the same degree as TB's as he built the club I'd be well pissed off with anyone who thought I should just keep digging deeper.

The club's mantra of getting players by letting them know we'll let them progress their careers as long as we receive the full financial recompense to let it happen is basically a brilliant way of carrying on business in the money pit that is PL football

I have never thought we'd joined the big boys, more that we are punching above our weight. Can't see us ever being up there with the genuine big boys whilst I'm alive.

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

I don’t blame Cucu for taking his opportunity. I am saddened at the club's preference, or need , for money over footballing excellence.
At the end of last season we were on the crest of a wave, 9th in the League and daring to dream of future success , even European football. Now we have lost not one but our two best players in the same transfer window.
Now we know. If the price is right we will sell anybody. Next year , I can see the South American boys being on their way if they do well, or Sanchez.. We are a selling club . We kidded ourselves that we had arrived among the big boys but we clearly have not the means to sustain it .
I see us back to bumping along the bottom of the Premier League until , one day , we are relegated. We may be the richest club in the Championship, or lower……..

We have always known that. Same as every other club. That’s why we get the next round of young starlets in ahead of time. You need to get your head round it otherwise every sale will come as a shock.

 

[Springal]

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[Cheshire Cat]

Every club is a selling club eventually.

 

[GOM]

I don't visit other fan forums but after all the fuss on here and now this is all over I went and had a peek at Blue Moon, just the last 3 pages and did find this amusing...

Spoke to the father of Brighton's goalkeeping coach yesterday. He said that Brighton were originally holding out for £37m from City when Chelsea came along with a daft offer.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

We have always known that. Same as every other club. That’s why we get the next round of young starlets in ahead of time. You need to get your head round it otherwise every sale will come as a shock.

I know it sounds a horrible comparison but we have to think of the youngsters as a crop. We grow them, train them and then either use them in our team and sell them on. Even the ones who don't make it into the team are being sold to lower leagues or abroad. It is how the club is becoming sustainable, and if it wasn't for covid, we wouldn't have a debt.

 

[Jimmy Grimble]

‘Played pro evo as Chelsea’

 

[Bob!]

I don't visit other fan forums but after all the fuss on here and now this is all over I went and had a peek at Blue Moon, just the last 3 pages and did find this amusing...

Spoke to the father of Brighton's goalkeeping coach yesterday. He said that Brighton were originally holding out for £37m from City when Chelsea came along with a daft offer.

So our goalkeeper coach's father is Jon Snow.

 

[Kosh]

‘Played pro evo as Chelsea’

So he was and is a total glory seeker... yeah let’s play pro-evo as one of the best teams in the world... ffs.

Surely we should have asked this question before we signed him... ? Lol... I’m beginning to doubt he had any clue who we were and that Burnley and Brighton are a little bit cheesy chips and chalk.

Obviously the tears were ones of relief about leaving Lancashire with his wheels intact.

That post is brilliant btw, sums it all up for me.

Pro evo, hilarity prevails. Talk about tenuous.

 

[Easy 10]

I don't visit other fan forums but after all the fuss on here and now this is all over I went and had a peek at Blue Moon, just the last 3 pages and did find this amusing...

Spoke to the father of Brighton's goalkeeping coach yesterday. He said that Brighton were originally holding out for £37m from City when Chelsea came along with a daft offer.

Which completely contradicts what BHA were publically saying last weekend, ie "50m+ or don't even bother to come knocking".

No way was TB holding out for £37m. That is utter bobbins.

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

I know it sounds a horrible comparison but we have to think of the youngsters as a crop. We grow them, train them and then either use them in our team and sell them on. Even the ones who don't make it into the team are being sold to lower leagues or abroad. It is how the club is becoming sustainable, and if it wasn't for covid, we wouldn't have a debt.

I think it’s fine to describe it in the way you have. The players also get something out of it in income whilst at the club and perhaps a platform to move on to other things.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

I don't visit other fan forums but after all the fuss on here and now this is all over I went and had a peek at Blue Moon, just the last 3 pages and did find this amusing...

Spoke to the father of Brighton's goalkeeping coach yesterday. He said that Brighton were originally holding out for £37m from City when Chelsea came along with a daft offer.

No chance when we sold Ben White for £50M. Ben Roberts is hardly likely to know what Weir and Barber were negotiating.