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Moving on - who can we realistically target to replace Cucu with that's available within our budget?

Yeah, pretty much. Stranger things have happened. I thought City were going to get Kane last summer and it didn't materialise. If a deal was that simple I can't help but think the clubs would have sorted it out by now, which gives me hope Cucu might stay for one more season. If Cucu goes, he...

Am I the only one who hopes this all goes tits up and he stays at least another year?

Amazing to think that 29 years ago the sale of Mark Beeney to Leeds for £350k just about kept us afloat and alive, and here we are arranging our 2nd player sale for £50m plus. How times have changed : "To Premier League Brighton & Hove Albion, £350,000 is nothing. The Seagulls will happily...

Wouldn't it be funny if the deal gets stalled and he plays and stars against United on Sunday adding another few million to his value!

Cucu to start at Old Trafford on Sunday is now becoming a possibility! Yey.

Some Chelsea fans on The Shed End are now saying they should walk away from this as we are asking for way more than the £50m suggested. Wouldn't be upset if they did to be honest.

Suspect there is an agreed fee of £50m but possibly the Albion are doing all they can to either get a performance related add on or percentage sell on clause that might be the real delay. As you have said the whole deal could potentially be worth well in excess of £50m and it's these add ons...

We need a 1 in front of the £50m!

Interesting there's not one photo of him on the website today from their training session. 34 photos - not one of Cucu.

Yeah, but how could you pay your energy bills with less than £50k a week?

Citeh's message board is the funniest thing I've read in weeks. If you want at laugh at their supporters expense get on there. It's comedy Gold! Pram, toys, thrown out of etc etc

Agreed. Or they pay £30m and we could have Grealish or De Bruyne to make up the balance.

Citeh don't do FFP.

If City had started negotiations when the window opened, a deal may have been done by now. Leaving their approach relatively late is always going to inflate the price for the club wanting to buy, as in the Albion's case we would now have little time to find and get a suitable replacement...

When have City ever complied with FFP? Last time they were charged in Feb 2020 they just used expensive lawyers against UEFA who couldn't compete and by July of that year their European ban was lifted and the fine of 30m Euro's was reduced to 10m Euro's - again, absolutely nothing to them...

Agreed. But City are awash with cash. £50m is nothing to them, a bit like me haggling to get a penny off my weekly shop. City are not a normal club.

The strangest thing for me is if they want him that badly why not just offer the £50m that would probably get Tony talking? Yes, I understand no one wants to pay more than they have to, but City practically print their own money and never abide by FFP and have limitless funds, so why not just...

I'm not saying it holds much weight, but he only a few weeks ago moved from Shoreham beach to a nice house in Hove. Does he really want to move again to the slums of Manchester?

If they wanted him that badly it's a shame they didn't buy him last summer before we did!