Last week, the name of Marc Cucurella jumped to the main news associated with the transfer market. Left winger, 24 years old, trained at Barcelona and with experience in the Premier League: The Spaniard from Brighton seemed the perfect piece to fit into the puzzle Pep Guardiola at Manchester City and replacing Zinchenko, who left for Arsenal. In London, however, someone anticipated it – and Cucurella was announced this Friday as Chelsea’s reinforcement.
The transfer had been taken for granted earlier in the week by the English media but, in recent days, Brighton ended up guaranteeing that there was still no formal agreement with “any club”. The difficulties were overcome and, during the morning of this Friday and after Thomas Tuchel had confirmed at a press conference that Cucurella was really going to move to Stamford Bridge, Chelsea announced the signing, also revealing that the Spaniard has signed for six seasons.
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“It’s not finished yet, but I don’t want to tell you that I don’t know anything about the negotiations. The papers are pending, I hope that everything is ready before noon and that Marc is our player. He is a fantastic player, he is young, he is hungry to win and he is very intelligent. He can play in several positions within our system and that is why we hope that the transfer will be completed soon,” the German coach had said in the morning prior to Chelsea’s debut in the Premier League, this Saturday and against Everton.
The transfer values have not yet been revealed but, according to the English press, the blues they have shelled out around €60m, making the 24-year-old winger the biggest sale in Brighton history. Marc Cucurella is leaving for Chelsea after just one season at Brighton, where he arrived after passing through Eibar and Getafe after leaving Barcelona. where he did most of his training. In London he will fight for the position with Ben Chilwell, the departure of Marcos Alonso, also from Spain, being almost certain, and he is the fifth reinforcement of Thomas Tuchel, along with Raheem Sterling, Kalidou Koulibaly, Carney Chukwuemeka and Gabriel Slonina.
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Source: Observadora
