{"id":615775,"date":"2022-08-05T06:16:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T10:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=615775"},"modified":"2022-08-05T07:44:31","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T11:44:31","slug":"chelsea-brighton-hove-albion-marc-cucurella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/05\/chelsea-brighton-hove-albion-marc-cucurella\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Confirm Signing of Brighton Defender Previously Linked With Manchester City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/05\/barcelona-chelsea-marcos-alonso-transfer\/\" target=\"_self\">Chelsea<\/a> have confirmed the signing of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/26\/sheffield-united-loan-brighton-reda-khadra\/\" target=\"_self\">Brighton &amp; Hove Albion<\/a> defender Marc Cucurella. The Spaniard joins for a total fee of around \u00a363 million, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1555292380227575812\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fabrizio Romano<\/a>, and the deal has also seen Blues defender Levi Colwill join the Seagulls on loan for the 2022\/23 season.<\/p>\n<p>The young left was<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/30\/marc-cucurella-hands-in-transfer-request\/\" target=\"_self\"> keenly followed by Manchester City<\/a> who are searching for a replacement after Oleksandr Zinchenko\u2019s transfer to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/05\/crystal-palace-arsenal-predictions-best-odds\/\" target=\"_self\">Arsenal<\/a>. However, Chelsea have won the race to his signature after meeting Brighton\u2019s asking price.<\/p>\n<h2>Chelsea Confirm Signing of Marc Cucurella<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">CLUB STATEMENT: MARC CUCURELLA.<\/p>\n<p>Following reports from numerous media outlets this week, we can confirm an agreement has been reached with Brighton and Hove Albion for the signing of Marc Cucurella.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChelseaFC\/status\/1555512782799396869?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 5, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Deal Breakdown<\/h3>\n<p>The deal includes a guaranteed sum of \u00a356 million and an additional sum of \u00a37 million based on additional clauses. This marks a substantial profit for Brighton, who bought the Spaniard from Getafe for \u00a315 million last year.<\/p>\n<p>It continues Brighton\u2019s trend of clever business in the transfer market. The former <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/02\/memphis-depay-manchester-united-chelsea-barcelona-contract\/\" target=\"_self\">Barcelona<\/a> product was in a rich vein of form in the Premier League last season with his consistency and defensive work rate one of the factors behind Brighton\u2019s top-half finish.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/04\/levi-colwill-transfer-chelsea-brighton\/\" target=\"_self\">Levi Colwill<\/a>, who played in the Championship on loan at <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/22\/chelsea-midfielder-returns-huddersfield-town\/\" target=\"_self\">Huddersfield Town<\/a> last season, has moved the other way on loan from Chelsea to Brighton. His signature was considered an important cog in Brighton\u2019s acceptance of Chelsea\u2019s bid.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/OfficialBHAFC\/status\/1555513374397661184<\/p>\n<p>This also continues Chelsea\u2019s summer transfer spree under the Todd Boehly era. They have acquired <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/news\/article\/sterling-signs-for-chelsea\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Raheem Sterling<\/a> from Manchester City, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/news\/article\/koulibaly-completes-chelsea-move\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kalidou Koulibaly<\/a> from Napoli, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/news\/article\/chukwuemeka-signing-confirmed\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carney Chukwuemeka<\/a> from Aston Villa and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/news\/article\/chelsea-sign-young-goalkeeper-slonina#:~:text=American%20goalkeeper%20Gabriel%20Slonina%20has,at%20the%20start%20of%202023.\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gabriel Slonina<\/a> from Chicago Fire which, together with Cucurella, pushes their total spending of this transfer window beyond a mammoth \u00a3150 million.<\/p>\n<p>They are also <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/02\/chelsea-frenkie-de-jong-manchester-united\/\" target=\"_self\">expected to compete<\/a> with Manchester United for the transfer of Barcelona\u2019s Frankie de Jong which could see the spending flash past the \u00a3200 million figure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea have confirmed the signing of Brighton &amp; Hove Albion defender Marc Cucurella. The Spaniard joins for a total fee of around \u00a363 million, according to Fabrizio Romano, and the deal has also seen Blues defender Levi Colwill join the Seagulls on loan for the 2022\/23 season. The young left was keenly followed by Manchester [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4274,"featured_media":615780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1265,11,7188],"tags":[9359,1407,8703,3813],"class_list":["post-615775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-brighton-and-hove-albion","category-chelsea","category-rumours","tag-brighton-hove-albion-transfers","tag-chelsea-transfers","tag-levi-colwill","tag-marc-cucurella"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4274"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}