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

[SeagullinExile]

Personally I think a new deal offer is likely off the table after he put a transfer request in.

Maybe for now. He’s probably gonna be put on the naughty step for a while. I think we’ll leave him out of the team for today at least.

 

[Javeaseagull]

The transfer. Following the transfer request. Obviously

Yeah cos that always works right?

 

[Stato]

This talk of players not joining us because we wont let them go, is totally out of proportion with reality.

True, There are also some over there saying that they should now just pay the £50m. Read Naylor's tweet again lads:- The Albion consider Cucu "a rarer and better player than (£50m) Ben White". In other words £50m won't cut it. I suspect that City's dubious machinations may have now led to the FU tax that I posited may be probable. Their silly scheming seems not only to have failed to reduce the player's price, it may have actually increased it.

Play straight with Tony Bloom.

 

[Bob!]

Maybe for now. He’s probably gonna be put on the naughty step for a while. I think we’ll leave him out of the team for today at least.

I don't.

I expect him to picked and to play.


If we leave him out it will be taken as a sign that we expect him to go.

 

[Silverhatch]

£400k pw I think.

And about £40m in associated third party/rep payments

 

[SeagullinExile]

I don't.

I expect him to picked and to play.

I’d agree if he hadn’t put in a transfer request. Not so sure now he has.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Transfer request was clearly a game-changer. It's inevitable now. Ah well, the player with the big flair hair smashing one past De Gea then promptly bursting into tears will live long in the memory. It's right up there with Ali J's overhead kick v Chelsea half a day into the new decade. Might not mean all that much in the grand scheme of things but f**k me right there right then it felt like the best thing in the world

Cucu's tears were about his son as he said in an interview, nothing about the Albion, why do people keep dredging this out as some kind of landmark moment in a (fictional) BHA love-in?

 

[Bob!]

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The price for ready made paella has gone up 400% in the last year though.

 

[Baldseagull]

I do like very much that it is Brighton that have effectively stood up and walked away from negotiations, thereby not allowing City to walk away from the deal, as they reportedly had "threatened" to do.

This is the aspect of this saga that is peeing me off, City, having made a very nice offer to our player, then "threaten" to not go ahead with the transfer at all because they are counting on their offer to our player to make him unhappy, and unwilling to be at Brighton. That insults both Cucurella and Brighton in my opinion. I hope Pep ends up expecting a good shift out of Nathan Ake at left back this season and finds he is too distraught at his Chelsea move not coming off to be of any use.

 

[Springal]

Cucu's tears were about his son as he said in an interview, nothing about the Albion, why do people keep dredging this out as some kind of landmark moment in a (fictional) BHA love-in?

On the emotional celebration, he added: "Coming here was difficult in the summer, a new league, new country and new language. It is now very exciting for me and my family; when we came, my son was 10 days old. He travelled with me when I changed my city. It is very special."

 

[Acker79]

I choose to believe that any transfer request that has gone in is more of a 'if it helps, I'm happy to forego any loyalty payments, y'know, if it lets Brighton lower their asking price a little bit. If not, I'm happy to stay and will still give my all' rather than a 'god, I hate it here make the deal happen or I'll sulk', until proven otherwise (and not being picked in a pre-season friendly isn't proof to me - just in case that becomes important in a little bit).

 

[Rambo]

This is the way I see it as well. They've been paying out 50 million plus deals like confetti for nearly a decade. I also think there's something behind the scenes, maybe some internal wrangling in the Abu Dhabi state investment fund or something. On some level I also think City fans know that something is a bit odd about this saga and in part I think that explains the terse reaction. They must know that 30 million was never going to tempt us

This is backing it up. Why make such a big deal about it?


Pep Guardiola: Man City boss says club sustainable after record player sales income https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/62353494

 

[Worried Man Blues]

I hope he plays so we can see if he has any reaction and to tell Man City situation normal, no probs this end!

 

[raymondo]

Bluuuuue Mooooooonn
You won't be seeing Cucu sooooon
Cos you've been playing out of tuuuune
You won't be beating Tony Bloooommm

 

[Baldseagull]

Is Dunk still here? Did Elliott Bennett go when he handed in his transfer request and Dale Stephens? No, they went the following year.

Stephens went 4 years later didn't he? And I think Bennet was 6 months later, they first came for him in January, and we made them wait till the summer.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Is Dunk still here? Did Elliott Bennett go when he handed in his transfer request and Dale Stephens? No, they went the following year.

Not a single one of those is/was anywhere near the class act at the highest level that Cucurella is. At this level, life-changing amounts of money for the player and his family (and his agent) trumps all

 

[Uh_huh_him]

Will be interesting to see if we’ve since retracted our offer of a new deal or have improved on it

I doubt that Tony will enter into any conversations with the agent until this scenario is concluded.


The way I read it is that Tony has got pretty livid with City and the Agent.
He has probably sent the agent off with a flea in his ear and told him to negotiate the best and final offer with City and to not bother talking to him unless that offer tops £50m.


Tony has stated from the offset that only "eye-watering" amounts would be considered.
Totally classless from the agent and City to play these games.

 

[CaptainDaveUK]

Not a single one of those is/was anywhere near the class act at the highest level that Cucurella is. At this level, life-changing amounts of money for the player and his family (and his agent) trumps all

Yes I’d imagine most people, not all, would move to another town, city or country to double their salary, but if you have signed a contract you can’t just walk away. City have to pay the TB’s valuation or this deal doesn’t happen. The end.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Yes I’d imagine most people, not all, would move to another town, city or country to double their salary, but if you have signed a contract you can’t just walk away. City have to pay the TB’s valuation or this deal doesn’t happen. The end.

Guess they'll be haggling the price even as we speak. TB's poker face, plus the fact that he doesn't want/need to sell the player and the player has the majority of his contract outstanding will work in our favour. On the other hand, TB won't want a (potentially) unhappy/sulking player/asset left on his books either. Deal WILL be done - with all parties coming away feeling they've got a decent deal. That's how these things work at this level

 

[Baldseagull]

Not a single one of those is/was anywhere near the class act at the highest level that Cucurella is. At this level, life-changing amounts of money for the player and his family (and his agent) trumps all

Burnley similarly dicked around with the fee offered though, if they had offered nearer the start the £8M they ended up offering on deadline day, they may have got him, but they left Brighton with no time to reliably get a replacement.