The Barcelona has made many mistakes in recent years at the hands of the previous board. Both economically and when it comes to making the squad with wrong signings (with very high investments) and sales of players who could be important in the long term such as Thiago Alcántara and Dani Olmo, who left at different times in their career. And one of the great mistakes of recent years was Marc Cucurella.
The Barça team sold the youth squad for 12 million euros to Getafe in the summer of 2020, without giving him opportunities in the first team and despite the good performances he had shown at Eibar with José Luis Mendilibar and even with the azulón team hand in hand by Jose Bordalás. A youth player who always showed conditions in the lower categories, but who only played one game with the first team.
Barça’s big mistake with Cucurella
And, after just two seasons of said sale, Marc Cucurella has become one of the best left-backs in the Premier League at Brighton and Hove Albion and Manchester City want to pay £30m to sign him in the summer on demand. of Pep Guardiola, who sees him as a more than interesting option to reinforce his left wing. At only 23 years old, he is close to returning to a big club in Europe to be important.
On the other hand, FC Barcelona is looking for a left back to rotate with Jordi Alba in the short term and to be a starter in the long term. The club will be forced to spend money, at a difficult economic time, to bring in a footballer that you could replace with a youth squad that could be relevant and even a starter. And, worst of all, is that they spent 20 million euros at the time for Junior Firpo, who was not important at any time. A bad investment, which will now come from the hand of another for a substitute.
The Blaugrana team has names like José Luis Gayá, Marcos Alonso and Alex Grimaldo in their sights, who will demand an investment that, if they had stayed with Marc Cucurella, would not be necessary. Another of the reasons why FC Barcelona is going through a very negative economic and sporting moment.