That’s that then.
Robinson has spoken.
We were wrong.
City in for Cucurella “this summer” reports the Mail. Will take £30m apparently.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...woop-Brighton-left-Marc-Cucurella-summer.html
It’s that time of year again for all the b@llshit rumours
As if BHA and TB would let our POTS go for peanuts
It won’t happen.
Well, I think the price is crazy but he’s a very Pep type of player and wouldn’t be at all surprised if City briefed the journo.
You’d have to start at Ben White money and go up from there though.
I noticed that Mr Potter mentioned something about ‘one transfer per window’ but ‘we don’t have to sell anyone’ recently.
Assuming that the ‘one’ player we want to stay but will leave would be Bissouma or Trossard, I suspect Man City would be trying to work their way down from the initial £100m TB would ask for.
We had plenty of cover for White, his value to us was no where near as high as it is for Cucu where we have no like for like cover. £30m is insulting but the notion of the £17m Spurs were apparently going to thrust in to Tony’s hand for our PoTY was an utter disgrace.
Absolutely no question that any player we sold to City would have to be more than White. Didn’t they pay about 50 million for Mendy for goodness sake?
Absolutely no question that any player we sold to City would have to be more than White. Didn’t they pay about 50 million for Mendy for goodness sake?
Ben White had potential and, is English, but still had some obvious gaps and plays a position which has plenty of competition.
We sold him for £50m.
Cucurella has at least as much potential and no obvious gaps, playing in a position with less competition.
With City as a potential suitor, I would be genuinely surprised if Tony would listen to any offers lower than £70m
Do Getafe have a sell on?
I would be surprised if they do. Believe we paid the release clause in his contract with Getafe (all contracts in Spain have one), so there would be no need to work any clauses into the deal with them re future payments.
I'm very confident we won't sell. There's every reason to think that the Marc will nail down the first choice LB spot for Spain by the time the world cup comes around. If he does and Spain go far, which they probably will, another £10 to 15m goes on the price tag