Some clubs would be better off investing in a better scouting system.
£140m for Cucarella and Fofana is about £80m too much.
£140m for Cucarella and Fofana is about £80m too much.
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Maybe so, I get the feeling that that fishy bloke who bought the club following the forced sale is a bit of a twat.
Don’t think so. Maybe added a bit more urgency but it has been reported since before Boehly even officially took over that we were going to spend huge money this window. Preseason results are totally meaningless. Liverpool didn’t panic when United spanked them 4-0 a few weeks back either.
Cucerella at £62m it’s huge. City valued him at £30, Brighton seemingly £50.
Doesn’t it make him the most expensive full back in history?
Nope. Lucas Hernandez still is and I think Hakimi is second, though I could be wrong.
But yes, Cucu will now be right up there.
No that be Lucas Hernandez. Bayern paid £72m for him back in 2019.
Seems like an expensive signing for a position they don't really need to spend big on..? Chilwell was signed recently for £50m and has just come back into the side.
I guess the fact that he can also play as part of a three makes him useful. I was under the impression that the strongest part of his game was getting forward, though.
I guess the fact that he can also play as part of a three makes him useful. I was under the impression that the strongest part of his game was getting forward, though.
Not the same is it. Liverpool were behind us in preparation and they started their 2nd team against our first team. It was obvious what happened.
It is a lot – a terrible buy for half the price 5 years ago doesn't change that. Also, the base is allegedly £55m and the Cancelo fee was inflated for accounting purposes, unless you really believe Danilo was worth £34m to Juve, of all clubs.
While it was a hell of a lot of money for a Championship player, Williams is going to impress a lot of people
Good to see someone else getting ripped apart in paying way over the worth. Now Fofana next for 90m please
Hopefully we will get fofana for 70-80 mn and get done with transfer market.
To be fair, Hernandez is a CB/LCB that can play FB but not a FB. Bayern has that Davies guy for LB duties.
I think 80m is not enough, after all he probably is twice the player Maguire was, I think at least 100m.
He can play 2 positions at once?
City spent all summer chasing Cucurella only to lose out on him to Chelsea. How embarrassing. I don't they will ever recover from the embarrassment.
Seems like they offered £35m, Brighton wanted £60m and it ended there? Chelsea have coughed it up.
Not really. We had a valuation that was lower than Brighton’s, and we moved on. It’s not the first time we’ve seen City pull out of a deal and it certainly won’t be the last.
He’s a very good player and would’ve loved to have seen him at City this year, but £55m is ludicrous in my opinion.
The thread can be closed. It is official now.
Must be their director of football & scouting department having no idea how to get their prime summer target. Bunch of clueless door knobs who can't get the players Guardiola wants.
City is not wise to sell zinchenko before securing Cucurella. They assumed they are getting Cucurella for sure.
I mean at least they know how to sell players, our bunch of useless twats can't even do that.
Fair play from Chelsea having a dig, you knew the deal was going to be done very soon after Brighton made that tweet.
Fair fecks to Brighton. Probably the best run club in the league.
That's an awful lot of money for a player I don't overly rate. Good shit.
It's like you have a few of these ringer pursuits and then pulling out to pretend you're a normal club who have transfer constraints
But yes, 55m for a left back who surely isn't better than Chilwell is bizarre stuff.
55m PLUS up to 7m in add ons?!
For a decent but not incredible full back?
What a time to be alive, wowzers.
For a decent but not incredible full back?
What a time to be alive, wowzers.
That's smart, you know when you need to walk away and look for alternatives.... unlike us. Muppets' only hope is that they don't have the budget for FdJ
I honestly thought prices would dip after the whole covid shenanigans but they are actually on the rise. Crazy
I was being sarcastic. Cucurella isn't worth 62m. City did well to pull out of a bad deal.
Every club has transfer restraints. Even City. But it’s not about that, it’s about what we estimate to be a reasonable fee for a player and what is fair value. Chelsea have far exceeded what we valued the player at and that’s fine, that’s obviously what they consider to be fair value.It's like you have a few of these ringer pursuits and then pulling out to pretend you're a normal club who have transfer constraints
But yes, 55m for a left back who surely isn't better than Chilwell is bizarre stuff.
I’m sure we would’ve gone way beyond £55m for a player that we valued at a cost above that, so it’s not about creating the “illusion” that we have transfer restraints.
Actually enjoying watching Chelsea overpay. There will be big pressure on Tuchel this season.
They could have acquired Telles for free..lol...60 mil for possible backup leftback is great business.
Clubs have money and other clubs know it, because they have money too.
If they pull off the Fofana deal as well, for the kind of fee that's reported, they'll surely have no more funds for FDJ. I hope.
Romano has demolished his haters on this.
If only we could go back to the mid 90s.
United strong.
442 with proper side wingers who cross it
2 strikers
full backs concerned with defending
centre backs concerned with defending
None of this holding/attacking midfielder nonsense, just straight forward both do a bit of it all.
Loads of quality players distributed amongst teams
Loads of good centre backs, loads of good strikers.
This current day footy is pretty bleak in some ways.
Good luck to Joe Wicks at Chelsea. I thought he was a West Ham fan though?
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