Chelsea confirm deal for Brighton defender Marc Cucurella just after Manchester Town pass up out on Spaniard

Chelsea are established to total the signing of Marc Cucurella from Brighton for a fee considered to be over £50m with Levi Colwill established to go in the opposite way.

Personalized terms were agreed on Tuesday prior to Chelsea fulfilled Brighton’s valuation of the participant.

Town had a £30m bid rejected for the full-back earlier this summer with Pep Guardiola’s aspect eager to come across a substitution for the departed Oleksandr Zinchenko, who joined Arsenal. But the Citizens were being not intent on making a better bid.

Chelsea then capitalised on that stalemate, matching Brighton’s inquiring price tag in buy to indicator the defender, who had four decades remaining on his Brighton contract.

The Blues mentioned in a assertion: “Next reports from various media stores this 7 days, we can validate an arrangement has been reached with Brighton and Hove Albion for the signing of Marc Cucurella. “

Likely in the opposite route on mortgage is Blues 19-yr-aged defender Colwill, who expended past year at Huddersfield Town also on bank loan.

Head mentor Graham Potter claimed: “Levi has massive prospective and has currently proven his means very last year in the Championship and with England at several age group levels up to beneath-21s.

“I am really hunting ahead to working with him on the schooling pitch, and in matches around the course of the year.

“He plays mainly at centre-back again, but has also performed on the still left as a entire-again, and he is a participant who is relaxed on the ball.”

Cucurella’s arrival at Stamford Bridge is most likely to final result in Marcos Alonso shifting on with Barcelona reportedly eager to sign the 31-12 months-old.