Manchester City will start the new season with only one left back – Joao Cancelo. The quality of the Portuguese defender is not disputed, far from it, but after the departure of Oleksandr Zinchenko to Arsenal and the absence of Benjamin Mendy due to his stay in prison, the champion of England needs more options, especially if we consider that Cancelo also feels better on the opposite flank.It’s no secret that Marc Cucurella is Pep Guardiola’s first pick, and the Spanish defender has already taken the first concrete step towards realizing the biggest transfer of his career so far. According to information from the Island, Brighton’s best football player last season submitted a request to be placed on the transfer list, but in the whole story, that is the easier part of the job.##NAJAVA_MECA_6534396##Brighton have already rejected City’s 35 million euros for Cucurella and are asking for as much as 60 million European banknotes! City’s emissaries must now show all their negotiating skills to bring down a price that is unrealistic, even in the current footballing circumstances where player prices are over-inflated.Cucurella had an excellent debut season in the Premier League, where he arrived for only 18 million euros and became the biggest signing of Brighton. This is exactly why the club from AMEX Stadium is currently resisting City’s offensive and has already made it clear that to get this transfer done, a bombastic offer will be needed to convince the managers to let Cucurella go. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Sky Sports (@skysports) City paid almost 110 million euros for two transfers this summer. Erling Haaland arrived from Dortmund for 60 million euros, while Kalvin Phillips arrived as a replacement for Fernandinho for almost 50 million euros. At the same time, the club earned 160 million euros from the sale of Raheem Sterling to Chelsea (56 million euros), Gabriel Jesus and Zinchenko to Arsenal in a package worth 87 million euros, along with some other ‘smaller’ transfer deals…City’s first game of the season is the English Super Cup or the better-known Community Shield, which is played on Saturday evening.
