Marc Cucurella - World Class Hairdo

redcucumber said:
Ah, come on. Your issues were a hell of a lot deeper than two injuries/their replacements. You started the season with Tuchel, suddenly pivoted to Potter, then ended the season with fecking Lampard who had one of the worst winning percentages of any Chelsea manager ever. I find it hard to believe that it can 'majorly' pinned on Cucurella and Azpilicueta. I think Boehly and his bizarre approach is much more significant a reason as to why it all went so hilariously shit.
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I'm not blaming him for the entirety of the season obviously. But it's pretty incontrovertible that a major contributor to our season going off the rails when Chilwell and James got hurt - just like the year before.

We actually started very well under Potter for what it's worth - then we lost our fullbacks and couldn't score goals since their replacements did absolutely nothing offensively.
 
Funny how views convenient change, go to his other thread and it's our fans calling him shit and Chelsea lot defending him. Suddenly we have the reverse now :lol:
 
Annihilate Now! said:
It is absolutely wild to me that we are signing(loaning) a LB before a midfielder.
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It's genuinely mental, when you think of our squad composition we have 2 actual centre midfielders, 1 of them previously being an attacking midfielder, and 1 defensive mid yet have 3 (!) left backs, 4 with Cucurella :lol: in 10 to 20 years time there will be PhD students writing their thesis on the transfer priorities and dealings of Man United. I actually think we've gotten worse at squad planning under Arnold and Murtogh, to me it seems like the haven't got the faintest clue what they're doing.
 
3million is a great deal to be honest. Even if he is just back up to Dalot for the next 6 weeks.

Will be a bit disappointing if this is the last bit of business though.

We need a CM.
 
We’ve signed Zabaleta with hair.

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Smores said:
Funny how views convenient change, go to his other thread and it's our fans calling him shit and Chelsea lot defending him. Suddenly we have the reverse now :lol:
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That's football fandom and the nature of transfers isn't it. One of the few transfers that did the opposite was Mount, where it was the selling clubs fans singing his praises, while the buying teams fan were all doom and gloom.
 
AltiUn said:
It's genuinely mental, when you think of our squad composition we have 2 actual centre midfielders, 1 of them previously being an attacking midfielder, and 1 defensive mid yet have 3 (!) left backs, 4 with Cucurella :lol: in 10 to 20 years time there will be PhD students writing their thesis on the transfer priorities and dealings of Man United. I actually think we've gotten worse at squad planning under Arnold and Murtogh, to me it seems like the haven't got the faintest clue what they're doing.
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Now you’re confusing me.

We still have Casemiro, McTominay, Eriksen and Mount for two positions? (Plus Mainoo, it seems to me, if we’re counting apprentices and injured players as well?)

And we have two LB’s, but both are injured. (Three if you count Fernandez, even thoug he seems quite a bit further down the list than Mainoo). I’m pretty sure if both Case and McTom were out for months, we’d get something done for midfield, don’t you?
 
On a side note, has any VAR camera ever picked up Cucurella smiling?
 
Grande said:
Now you’re confusing me.

We still have Casemiro, McTominay, Eriksen and Mount for two positions? (Plus Mainoo, it seems to me, if we’re counting apprentices and injured players as well?)

And we have two LB’s, but both are injured. (Three if you count Fernandez, even thoug he seems quite a bit further down the list than Mainoo). I’m pretty sure if both Case and McTom were out for months, we’d get something done for midfield, don’t you?
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We might have numbers, but the quality and what we actually need isn't there.
 
DickDastardly said:
Seriously don't get all the fascination with fees.

3 or 7, who gives a feck.
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Amrabat might if the money saved (plus the Henderson fee) allows us to sign a midfielder. We're on the bones of our arse, financially - every little helps, even £4m.
 
He's going to shock a lot of you. Didn't watch him at Chelsea but did with BHA. He's brilliant for ETHs system and once Hojlund joins it's going to be an effective combo.
 
Mike Smalling said:
Seriously underwhelming.
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It's a weird one innit? On the one hand, we are paying £3mil for a season of a back up/rotational left back who has just had a below average year (I thought he got better as it went on, an incredibly poor start).

On the other, we might have just paid only £3mil for a season of a backup/rotational full back who was Brighton's Players Player and Fans Player of the year just the season before and was highly sought after by City and whom Brighton, a club whose recruitment is well revered on this forum, desperately wanted to keep.

Cucurella is not the first to go to Chelsea and suffer from a scatter gun approach to recruitment, I doubt he will be the last. As far as we go, there is enough talent there for me and I think if he can get back to his natural game with us, fans in the stadium will love him.
 
I rated him a lot based on his Brighton days and was making a case with resident Chelsea fans only last week that he could be better than Chilwell if he found his form.

However, it might just be me but loaning a player off a supposed rival is a bit weird. I doubt I'll ever really warm to a Chelsea player who is here on loan. It's also strange that Chelsea are sanctioning this. Do they not see us as a threat or is Cucurella not great behind the scenes and they want rid?
 
pocco said:
However, it might just be me but loaning a player off a supposed rival is a bit weird. I doubt I'll ever really warm to a Chelsea player who is here on loan. It's also strange that Chelsea are sanctioning this. Do they not see us as a threat or is Cucurella not great behind the scenes and they want rid?
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Apparently he's a really nice guy who makes people laugh so I guess that's why he doesn't fit in at Chelsea
 
Smores said:
Funny how views convenient change, go to his other thread and it's our fans calling him shit and Chelsea lot defending him. Suddenly we have the reverse now :lol:
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ETH wants him, therefore he MUST be good.
 
Not a bad signing on loan - a few of us were pining for him when he was at Brighton. Let's hope he can recapture some of that form.
 
This is ridiculous! I think getting a player like this in is a recipe for disaster. He’s such a mess of a player that he might cause more problems than he fixes. Do we not have proper scouts anymore to identify players?
 
Himannv said:
This is ridiculous! I think getting a player like this in is a recipe for disaster. He’s such a mess of a player that he might cause more problems than he fixes. Do we not have proper scouts anymore to identify players?
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We do, they just aren't used.
 
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