When Mendilibar opted for Marc Cucurella for his Eibar, few imagined the projection that the left-handed back would have. It didn’t take long for Brighton to notice him and, shortly after, Chelsea made him the most expensive left-back in history by paying 65 million euros for his signing.
People took out their frustration on me for what it had cost.
Marc Cucurella
The price, even if you try to avoid it, puts extra pressure on you. “When I came, it was the first months after the change of ownership. There were many signings; Abramovich, who had made history taking the club to the top, had left… Many changes, new players, new ideas and the easy It is going after those who have bought. Many people think that the more money they pay, the better you are, or you have to be a machine and do everything perfectly, and that is something between clubs, I have nothing to do with it. The team came. after winning the Champions League, people didn’t understand what was happening and many paid it with me,” explains Marc in the MARCA advent calendar interview.
Cucurella poses for MARCA with his champion medal.CHEMA REY
No social media for a while
Cucurella confesses that he is not very aware of what is said about him in the press or on the networks, although sometimes the messages reach him. “Before I had Twitter and now I don’t. There was a time when I left Instagram because you are there and you learn a lot of things. You learn from everything. Thanks to this you understand that neither the day you play well are you the best, nor the day you If you play badly, you are the worst. You have to have a balance. I had played very well and I had to live through a few tough months,” he confesses.
