Brighton owner and chairman Tony Bloom has revealed the membership has not obtained any bids for Manchester City target Marc Cucurella.
The Spaniard solely joined the Seagulls from Getafe final summer time however was one of many signings of the season, making 35 Premier League appearances as his facet secured a end of ninth, one of the best ever of their historical past.
90min reported in June that Manchester City had been engaged on offers for Kalvin Phillips and Cucurella – Phillips has since joined the Citizens whereas supervisor Pep Guardiola has green-lit a £50m transfer for Cucurella.
However, regardless of City’s curiosity Bloom has revealed the south coast membership are but to have any bids are available for their star defender.
He instructed BBC Radio Sussex: “Marc is a tremendous player, a tremendous person. He’s brilliant for the dressing room. The players love him, Graham and the coaches love him, I love him, the fans love him. He was unbelievably good last season, his first season in the Premier League. We’re hoping for more to come and we haven’t had a bid for him.
“I’m not going to speculate on individual players we may or may not get bids for. The fact that there is speculation and there is interest in our players, I always view that as a positive. It hasn’t always been like that. There’s less than three or four clubs where some of the players are not for sale.
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“We’ve got to be realistic if a certain bid comes in and the player wants to move, the player will move, but we are not anticipating, we’re not looking for our best players to move on. If it happens and we get a bid then we have to consider it, but until that point, we carry on.”
Cucurella has beforehand revealed he would discover it arduous to show down a transfer to City, stating: “If the opportunity arises, you have to take advantage of it. There are teams that you can’t say no to. No, sincerely no [Pep Guardiola has not called]. Of course, there are rumours.”
