The Fits
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Where on earth do they get this nonsense from? It just makes sites like these seem so utterly clueless.
[Albion] "Cucurella only needs a goal to sew up POTS"
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Where on earth do they get this nonsense from? It just makes sites like these seem so utterly clueless.
Tom Hark Preston Park
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Cucurella has embraced the whole ethos of the club in double-quick time, just like Bruno and Calde before him. For now, hard to envisage there's anywhere he'd rather be
- Jul 10, 2003
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A flair Spanish fullback is now as quintessentially Brighton as Seagulls nicking chips, Rock, 1.5 piers, Muesli Mountain, Tattoos, Dirty weekends, Beards, elderly skateboarders, The Pavilion and Duke's Mound 
A flair Spanish fullback is now as quintessentially Brighton as Seagulls nicking chips, Rock, 1.5 piers, Muesli Mountain, Tattoos, Dirty weekends, Beards, elderly skateboarders, The Pavilion and Duke's Mound
And fake people trying so hard to be different they all look, sound and act exactly the same.
Oh and graffiti.
And general everyday grime and filth.
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B-right-on
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Written by a deluded Spurs fan is their vain hope that it will happen for that figure, not realising who he is dealing with in TB and thinks that if we sold BDB to Toon for a tenner, we'll do the same to Spurs should they come calling.
Two words. Not those two.
These two:
1) Ben
2) White
My Spurs STH pal sent me that…after I’d stopped laughing, I replied telling him we already have a benchmark price for selling young defenders to crap North London clubs, so unless that’s matched they can do one
Norman Potting
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Is Dunk standing on a box or is Cucurella in a hole ?
Stato
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We bought Dan for an undisclosed fee in the region of £3.2 million and sold him, at the age of 29, with 7 months left on his contract, for about 4 times that. It gave the player the opportunity to play for his boyhood club and it was the decent thing to do for a good servant of the club. However, there is no way that Tony Bloom wouldn't have ensured that we got every possible penny out of Newcastle. It was annoying that his good run of form coincided with our dip, but we didn't sell him for peanuts. If you use the same equation to value Cucurella. i.e. 4 times the price we paid for him for every seven months left on his contract, we'd be valuing him at over £400 million. I suppose we could overlook adjusting up further for the age difference as we wouldn't have to give Wigan a percentage.
GT49er
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On NSC we are often guilty of oveer-estimating just how much we might get for a player, but that 'journalist' is so clearly away with the fairies that he really should be pursuing a less prestigious career.
Stato
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My mistake. Forgot about his contract extension.
doogie004
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No other club in prem would of sold a player that cheap with 17 months left on contract . The fact he wanted to go and play is irrelevant
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I completely disagree.
If you'd have told the average Brighton fan at the start of this season we'd get a £13 million deal for Burn, most would have taken it there and then (or just laughed at you). With Cucurella's arrival on the left he'd just become third choice left back who'd be fighting Duffy for a centre back spot if we got an injury to one of our starting CBs. Yes, he had several good games at centre back after that but he also had a couple of huge mistakes earlier in the season and still looks like he has a ricket in him. I know that Newcastle were playing a City side who needed to be redeemed yesterday but Burn made an error that he only just recovered from inside the first 10 minutes while the third goal was collectively awful defending.
Secondly it genuinely is his boyhood club so denying him the opportunity would have left us with a sulking, unhappy camper around the place.
It's a deal that suited everyone and to play it any other way is bizarre.
But that wasn't the narrative, from many, when the Albion couldn't buy a point and Newcastle were ahead of us.
I've left rowing about that deal to others because for me it was all about the final league table.
Would Mr Bloom have pocketed more or less than £13m with BDB still in the squad?
Obviously there was a time when it looked like the deal would cost the club money, but thankfully and somewhat surprisingly those days have passed.