That's fine but your point was that he would struggle in the Championship as if he hasn't already had a very good PL season. Some players just suit certain teams.
Cucurella at Chelsea
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Hasn’t he mainly been playing out of position for Chelsea, I.e. LCB or LB whereas at Brighton he was mainly at LWB, which seems to suit him better - less defensive responsibilities?
I don’t remember him at Brighton but he’s been gash whenever I’ve seen him for Chelsea. What happened to him?
Cheers for that.
There’s something about footballers with the Sideshow Bob trim that always carry the bozo gene. Even if he’s having a good game, you can’t help but feel something comically stupid is about to happen. I actually thought Cucarella had a strong first half, but when City stepped it up a gear in the second, Cucarella was the first casualty.
I remember him being okay but he was never a £60m player, it was only because City were interested that Chelsea bid in the first place. He can play decent in a system but he’s no where near refined enough to boss the left flank on his own.
He’s playing more as an inverted fullback rather than an overlapping one.
That sounds about right tbf. You know if he’d gone to city he’d probably look amazing.
Yeah well they made Zinchenko look decent at times so I’m sure he’d have been good at City.
He barely was used as a left wingback last year - his time was pretty much evenly split between LCB in a back 5 with Trossard as the nominal wingback in front of him or as the LB in a back 4. At Getafe he played LWB / LM much more regularly.
Certainly a cucu signing
Benched by an 18 year old.
Best £60m we ever spent...
He was never really very good to begin with.
Never got the hype when he was at Brighton.
They were/are clearly just a well oiled machine in a good set up, which made Cucurella look better than he really is, same with Potter to be honest.
Brighton are still flying without either of them.
I think he is a good player who will end up proving people wrong. I watched him look top class too many times at Brighton.
This Chelsea team are a hodge podge of 4 different managers players and have no balance whatsoever.
I think he will prove the doubters wrong.
This Chelsea team are a hodge podge of 4 different managers players and have no balance whatsoever.
I think he will prove the doubters wrong.
Floppy haired flop.
@GifLord can we get that touch from him that ended up in the dugouts at about 94-odd mins?
What a flop. Stop buying players form farmers leagues.
Seems a bit dim.
Just came here to post this - funniest thing I’ve seen for a while!
Well he climbed 9 positions in the PL by doing nothing. That's quite clever if you ask me.
Oof he's really really bad.
He looked absolutely gutted when he was subbed off near the end, must be difficult to go from having a great season last year to having a nightmare one now.
He looked absolutely gutted when he was subbed off near the end, must be difficult to go from having a great season last year to having a nightmare one now.
Thanks for bumping this.
As he was brought off last night I was going to post how truly terrible he has been for them. He can’t be this bad surely.
As he was brought off last night I was going to post how truly terrible he has been for them. He can’t be this bad surely.
There's no way he's this bad, just going through a really rough patch I think.
How can be someone be so out of touch with your own team ? Definitely team mates would know about any potential departures?
Not always, there's been plenty of cases over the years of players being shocked one of their team mates have been sold
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Dubbed as the new Stewart Downing.
Just tried to start on fecking Sule in their game against Dortmund. Theory confirmed.
Remarkably terrible footballer.
Bet he wished he joined City now.
Every so often there's a player from a mid-table team that costs a bomb that the big teams want and I've no idea how he's worth the hype and money. Cucurella is one of those. There are about 10 Cucurella-level players in every top league, so why would you spend £60 million on him. It's funny how easily Brighton improved on him as well, Estupinan is a superior player.
Genuinely one of the worst players I've seen at a top six club.
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Not a cb
Pep or money
I don't really watch Chelsea closely enough or often enough to have a truly informed opinion on him, but from what I have seen he's been shocking. What do the Chelsea fans on here make of him?
I bet you they equivocally hate him. What an awful signing.