Spanish international defender Marc Cucurella is on his way to Brighton where he’ll sign with the Seagulls. The former Barcelona starlet has had two excellent years with the club from the suburbs of Madrid and has attracted interest from England.Brighton wouldn’t go into trouble of negotiating a transfer fee, but have rather decided to trigger the Tokyo 2020 silver medallist’s release clause that was set to $21 million when he signed for Getafe from Barcelona. View this post on Instagram A post shared by MARC CUCURELLA (@cucurella3) The curly-haired Marc is a highly recognizable character in La Liga since he started his youth career at Espanyol. He was shortly transferred to neighbours Barcelona and their famed La Masia Academy, but Cucurella made just a single appearance for the club as he came off the bench to replace now-Everton defender Lucas Digne in a Copa del Rey tie in October 2017. Loans to Eibar and Getafe followed in the next two years and the latter club made the loan permanent, making him a first-team regular in La Liga.21.00: (3.35) Getafe (2.80) Sevilla (2.50)Talk about Barca, they need every penny that can get these days and will be happy to see Cucurella go to Brighton because they’ve included a sell-on clause when they offloaded the player a year ago. Thanks to it, the Blaugrana will pocket 10 per cent of the transfer fee, i.e. $2.1 million. That will be enough to pay around ten weeks of Philippe Coutinho’s wages. So, maybe Barca won’t be too thrilled after all.Cucurella has already made his senior debut for the Spain national team and has played regularly as his country finished runners-up in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic football tournament. Moving to a Premier League club is going to be a significant step up in his career.Brighton set to sign Marc Cucurella from Getafe at last, paying his €18 million release clause. Genuinely one of Spain’s brightest young talents. Versatile, operating anywhere on the left, a hard worker, technically strong, tactically aware, he’s got a lot in his locker. pic.twitter.com/HZf2BHrYpX— Sam Leveridge (@samleveridge) August 23, 2021 Brighton were looking to sign Cucurella for several months now since the departure of Brazilian Bernardo to RB Salzburg. Solly March has been deployed as a left wing-back for much of the last season, so manager Graham Potter should be delighted that he’s finally getting an out-and-out left-back to bolster his options.
