{"id":627770,"date":"2023-08-30T15:21:50","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T19:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=627770"},"modified":"2023-08-30T15:34:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T19:34:19","slug":"man-utd-marc-cucurella-loan-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/08\/30\/man-utd-marc-cucurella-loan-update\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;While I&#8217;m Speaking&#8217;: Fabrizio Romano Drops Huge Man United Update With Ace Now &#8216;Expected&#8217; To Join After Agreeing Personal Terms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Football journalist Fabrizio Romano has dropped a huge update revealing that Manchester United are close to finalising a deal to take Marc Cucurella on a season-long loan from Chelsea.<\/p>\n<h2>Fabrizio Romano Drops Huge Man United Update<\/h2>\n<h3>Marc Cucurella Close To Becoming Man United Player<\/h3>\n<p>Speaking on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GQ09ED9cBBw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube channel<\/a>, Romano revealed Cucurella is close to becoming a United player after agreeing personal terms with the club. He is expected to complete the move to Old Trafford once negotiations between the clubs has finished.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch:\u00a0<\/strong>What Manchester United Need on Deadline Day<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dRomTX6ce8w?si=5OK2bam7YrucCDDB\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Romano said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;So we wait for the exchange to be completed and then Marc Cucurella is expected to become a new Manchester United player because he already agreed terms.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While I&#8217;m speaking, Cucurella is close to joining Man United.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Marc Cucurella Fee Will Not Be What Chelsea Wanted<\/h3>\n<p>The 25-year-old defender moved to Stamford Bridge in a deal worth over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11661\/12666026\/marc-cucurella-chelsea-confirm-transfer-agreement-for-brighton-defender-worth-in-excess-of-60m\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a360 million<\/a> from Brighton and Hove Albion last summer. He has made a total of 33 appearances for the West London club since his arrival, although he hasn&#8217;t played a competitive game for them since April.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/08\/29\/marc-cucurella-manchester-united-loan-chelsea\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Man Utd Reach Agreement With 175k-a-Week Player<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite being out of favour at the club, Chelsea were hoping to receive a substantial fee of \u00a37 million to allow the Spaniard to leave on loan. However, it appears unlikely that an agreement will be particularly close to that figure, with United&#8217;s original proposal falling far short of that valuation.<\/p>\n<p>On the subject of a loan fee, Romano said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Chelsea and United are negotiating. The initial bid from Manchester United was \u00a32 million, Chelsea wanted \u00a37 million.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But, from what I&#8217;m hearing, Chelsea will not receive \u00a37 million. It&#8217;s going to be less than this.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Man United Prioritising Marc Cucurella Deal<\/h3>\n<p>Manchester United had been linked with several names in their search for a left-back following Luke Shaw&#8217;s injury. These included <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GerGarciaGrova\/status\/1696515646618501202?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nicolas Tagliafico<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gianlucadimarzio.com\/it\/roma-spinazzola-manchester-united-calciomercato-28-agosto-2023\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Leonardo Spinazzola<\/a>, but negotiations with Chelsea appear to be the clear priority.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/08\/30\/manchester-united-varane-injury\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Man Utd Star Now Faces Weeks Out After Red Devils Make Another Embarrassing Transfer Decision<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Romano has reported that Cucurella is United&#8217;s primary target and they will focus on negotiations for the Spanish full-back. If a deal can be formally approved before the close of the summer transfer window, the Red Devils will have filled a gaping hole in their lineup for the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>Main Image Credit:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2oGLpZp\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brent Flanders<\/a>\u00a0via Flickr, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/2.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CC BY-NC-ND-2.0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Football journalist Fabrizio Romano has dropped a huge update revealing that Manchester United are close to finalising a deal to take Marc Cucurella on a season-long loan from Chelsea. Fabrizio Romano Drops Huge Man United Update Marc Cucurella Close To Becoming Man United Player Speaking on his YouTube channel, Romano revealed Cucurella is close to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4723,"featured_media":625376,"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":[18,11,3,7188,28],"tags":[8611,7380,3813],"class_list":["post-627770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manchester-united","category-chelsea","category-premier-league","category-rumours","category-transfers","tag-chelsea-transfer-rumours","tag-manchester-united-transfer-rumours","tag-marc-cucurella"],"modified_by":"Brendan Pridmore","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627770","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\/4723"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}