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

[Seasider78]

Going to be a long summer

https://twitter.com/johnnycantor_/status/1529965716350328860?s=21&t=sPB71mXtfAAl1t6TPR1Hng

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Can’t possibly say that without knowing what any price will be……we know Tony well enough now to know how he works.

Interesting comment, which prompted me to think about it and I realise I don't know how Tony works at all. I just think I do

 

[Swansman]

Cucurella thing is just loose rumours as this point but its not impossible City are going to go for him.

If that process starts it will be very difficult to say no. Other than the Kane thing last summer I struggle to think of a club fending them off, it is entirely imaginable that Cucurella wants a 5x pay raise and celebrating a couple of titles each year while probably getting closer to the Spanish NT. If City show up I think it is more likely that Tony will try to find a good deal rather than doing trying to avoid the inevitable. It is not like the club could tell Cucurella that "a bigger and richer club will turn up in year if you just stay", City is one of a few clubs where you cant make that argument.

 

[Silverhatch]

FFS people, this is how analogue media has worked for years. Digital/social media has only amplified the noise. If you want an audience and commercial impact you NEED stories. #team(s)like Brighton is now newsworthy because the toxic 6 (and those who report on them) have now turned their lazy gaze to us and some of our excellent players. It will be a very long summer of plenty of smoke billowing from fires being lit nowhere near the south coast.

 

[nwgull]

The fees quoted of £35-45m for Cucurella tell you enough to know that this is click-bait bollocks from both professional and amateur rumour mongers. A club that holds out for 50m for Ben White, who was very good but no where near as important, isn't going to let its unanimous PoTS go for less, particularly when every team in the PL would be interested if he were available.

 

[chaileyjem]

Marc Cucurella *SINGS on a five-year contract*

PS Gerard Romero who did the interview with Cucurella about Man City - did another one with him a few months ago where he effectively said the same thing about Barcelona -

https://youtu.be/4PznTVE1mKw

PPS a couple of Spanish speakers on Twitter have said a few nuances have been lost in the translation of the widely reported “you can’t say no to Pep” interview. Well fancy that.

 

[Silverhatch]

The fees quoted of £35-45m for Cucurella tell you enough to know that this is click-bait bollocks from both professional and amateur rumour mongers. A club that holds out for 50m for Ben White, who was very good but no where near as important, isn't going to let its unanimous PoTS go for less, particularly when every team in the PL would be interested if he were available.

And the bloke has a multi-million pound 5 year contract (4-left) in his filing cabinet.

 

[beorhthelm]

as great as Cucurella is, £45m is fantasy and says all we need to know about the credibility of these rumours.

 

[chaileyjem]

Marc Cucurella *SINGS on a five-year contract*

Here’s The Sun story. It’s hardly packed with specific info. Some top 6 Clubs are interested in Brighton’s player of the year (really ? You surprise me) and will have to pay the going rate (well. Yes. ) , a “bidding scrap “could” kick off”and er, that’s it.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/18700169/chelsea-brighton-tottenham-man-city-cucurella-transfer/

 

[The Fits]

This is just a very safe made up bet. The media know Man City want a left back. The best in the country bar perhaps Robertson is Cucu. He’d want to leave if an offer came in you’d imagine, and City can afford him. But I can’t see a whole lot of actual evidence in anything written so far.
Being pragmatic about it though, with our recruitment, if we can spend the bulk of the summer with another 100 million in the kitty but without Biss and Cucu (as gutting as it’ll be see them leave) you’d be confident we’d still have a very decent squad come the beginning of next season.

 

[Weststander]

The fees quoted of £35-45m for Cucurella tell you enough to know that this is click-bait bollocks from both professional and amateur rumour mongers. A club that holds out for 50m for Ben White, who was very good but no where near as important, isn't going to let its unanimous PoTS go for less, particularly when every team in the PL would be interested if he were available.

This.

With more money in certain clubs than when White was sold. Behind Closed Doors is firmly behind them and a huge new UEFA deal for the CL clubs has been agreed.

 

[brighton_tom]

At least the rumoured amount we'd want for him is going up... it was £30m last week and now £45m. £100m by the end of June?

 

[Weststander]

At least the rumoured amount we'd want for him is going up... it was £30m last week and now £45m. £100m by the end of June?

= 110 Veltman’s

 

[Guinness Boy]

= 110 Veltman’s

Which is what Michael Antonio must have felt he was playing against.....

 

[nwgull]

= 110 Veltman’s

Sounds like something your mate asks you to pick up in the Duty Free shop.

 

[Silverhatch]

This is just a very safe made up bet. The media know Man City want a left back. The best in the country bar perhaps Robertson is Cucu. He’d want to leave if an offer came in you’d imagine, and City can afford him. But I can’t see a whole lot of actual evidence in anything written so far.
Being pragmatic about it though, with our recruitment, if we can spend the bulk of the summer with another 100 million in the kitty but without Biss and Cucu (as gutting as it’ll be see them leave) you’d be confident we’d still have a very decent squad come the beginning of next season.

With our recruitment we find all manner of players - many being developmental punts. Cucurella was bought to address a long-standing issue at left back and is, to quote the bungle****, Oven-Ready. We have broken, only once, the top-10 barrier. If you're going to maintain and meet the oft-quoted "established top-10" objective - then you just don't sell players like Cucurella, especially after the ONE season he's just had. That's not our model.

 

[Stato]

The fees quoted of £35-45m for Cucurella tell you enough to know that this is click-bait bollocks from both professional and amateur rumour mongers. A club that holds out for 50m for Ben White, who was very good but no where near as important, isn't going to let its unanimous PoTS go for less, particularly when every team in the PL would be interested if he were available.

As you suggest, if they're going to make up transfer stories, please use 2022 prices. The stories look more realistic.

When we played our first ever game in the EPL against Manchester City in August 2017, they had famously just spent more on two full backs than we had on building our stadium: Kyle Walker £47.43 million & Benjamin Mendy £51.75 million. In 2019 they added Joao Cancelo for another £58.50 million. With Cucu's age, the length left on his contract, and no need to sell, I wouldn't have thought Tony would bother coming to the phone unless the bidding was starting at £60 million. I'm not saying that Cucu is worth that, but we live in a crazy world and I never thought Trevor Francis was worth it either.

 

[dazzer6666]

as great as Cucurella is, £45m is fantasy and says all we need to know about the credibility of these rumours.

If (and it’s a big if) he does go to City this summer, it’ll be for at least £45m.

 

[Guinness Boy]

As you suggest, if they're going to make up transfer stories, please use 2022 prices. The stories look more realistic.

When we played our first ever game in the EPL against Manchester City in August 2017, they had famously just spent more on two full backs than we had on building our stadium: Kyle Walker £47.43 million & Benjamin Mendy £51.75 million. In 2019 they added Joao Cancelo for another £58.50 million. With Cucu's age, the length left on his contract, and no need to sell, I wouldn't have thought Tony would bother coming to the phone unless the bidding was starting at £60 million. I'm not saying that Cucu is worth that, but we live in a crazy world and I never thought Trevor Francis was worth it either.

Yep, I said exactly this either here or on another thread about it.

The bidding STARTS at 60, it doesn't end there. We have a left footed, Barca trained, player of the season with four years on his contract and a reputation greater than Steve Bruce's beer belly and we have no ready made replacement. That's WAY more valuable than Ben White.

 

[Hugo Rune]

Yep, I said exactly this either here or on another thread about it.

The bidding STARTS at 60, it doesn't end there. We have a left footed, Barca trained, player of the season with four years on his contract and a reputation greater than Steve Bruce's beer belly and we have no ready made replacement. That's WAY more valuable than Ben White.

Indeed.

From the outside people can speculate his market value but his value TO US (seeing as he is quite unique in the squad) his value is an absolute minimum of £60m as you describe, it’s probably quite a bit more. I can’t see us replacing him like-for-like in a hurry.