“If parents were offered money? Several times…” | Relief

Mark Cucurella (25 years) This is one of the names of summer. Side Chelsea And Spanish Choice He shone at the Eurocup, becoming the best left-back of the tournament. But success Cuckoo there are many people. Relevo talks to one of the most important people who have followed the Catalan’s career so far. Aley Pique, the footballer’s agent since he was 12, talks to Fashion Man Relay.

It was his first contract as an agent and he wasn’t even looking for players his own age.”Imagine if I was lost, I would accidentally catch this. That year, Espanyol mixed up the youth team. A were first-years, and B were second-years. So I went to kindergarten A, thinking that they were the oldest in this category and the smallest. Already the first game, the mane, the heat… It is curious that at that time he was taking free kicks, centering the corners. I stayed with the boy and that’s it, After two or three months of sitting with the family, I realized that they were so small. But I’ve already followed through. This kid is pointing that out, and since I’ve been dating the boy for a few months now and I like him, I’m moving forward,” he says.

One of the challenges he has had to overcome over the years is to maintain the loyalty of a player who is highly valued by other agents. That all changed when he signed for Barcelona as a cadet. Cucurella starts making noise and big agents start contacting his family, some with big commissions for changing agencies.If they offered money to parents? Repeatedly“.

How could he keep him as a newcomer in a team that managed one of Barça’s jewels? “I think that in the end, by being myself, in that sense I gave my parents confidence. They saw that I was a good person. They had many agents behind them trying to recruit them, and they were always loyal.I remember a joke when we were closing with City, Cuckoo He told me one of those things that you take with you:You must be one of the few agents in the world of football who started with such a young boy and ended up at Manchester City, in a great team.‘In the end he is absolutely right. Relationships of trust and decisions in football.”

His career has no shortcomings. Each of his moves was fully studied. From his departure to Eibar to his stay at Brighton. This destination surprised Cucurella himself, but Aleix was convinced that this was the right path. “Mark already had recommendations from Brighton because when he was at Eibar, They had already contacted me to find out about their situation. At that point I started watching Brighton and was very surprised by the style of play. So Mark, who likes to watch a lot of football, really likes the Premier League. I told him, ‘Look at this team, they are playing amazingly.’“I told him that I would like him to play in this team because this context will lift him up 100%.”

This first interest becomes a real offer.”“How am I going to get to Brighton?” Cucurella asked his agent.. To a club that, season after season, was close to relegation and to leaving Getafe, where he was very comfortable. “It’s true that the first reaction is not ‘how good’. But we had already studied him: he was top 5 in possession, top 5 in creating chances… It was a team that saw him as a striker or a flanker, his position when he played as a striker. Then he heard that and went there. We had the opportunity to go to Burnley, but it was a completely different context than Brighton.. And even though they paid him and the agents more money in commission, he chose that context. We’ve said it before and we can say it now: it was absolutely right, because Brighton went up, Burnley went down that year, and Mark ended up at Chelsea, the most expensive sale of a left-back in history, and he could have ended up at City, which didn’t happen because of the club’s problems.

Before deciding to go with Chelsea, City were in the running to sign him but failed to reach an agreement with Brighton.They submitted several proposals, which were rejected because they were considered insufficient. Then Chelsea came along with an initial offer that was much higher than City’s final offer,” explains Aleix.

He joined Chelsea for €70 million, a price that never weighed on him. “At the end of the day, at the negotiating level, it’s still a figure. YesIf a club offers that amount, you can’t do more either.In the end, they show that they love the player at any cost. Cuckoo I said this in an interview that If they had put it in his pocket, he would have understood the criticism.but the club decided to pay money for him. He is an employee. Try your best, sometimes it turns out better, sometimes worse.”

Aleish assures that Cucurella has not changed. He has known him for 14 years and he is the same as all of Spain saw him at the European Cup. Both on and off the pitch.”He has such a fun role, and it’s also good that in a moment of joy and celebration he also knows how to enjoy it.He remembers that before the European Championship his call was criticized. He was even accused of “working for the RFEF”, which is completely false. “I need a license. Before the new FIFA rules, you were an intermediary for the federation of the country where you got the license. I was a mediator in the Royal Spanish Football Federation, and many even said that Mark was called because I worked in the federation.“In the end, in such situations it is often better not to intervene, because people also express opinions without having information. It is still anecdotal, and such comments do not appear anymore, so the boy did something well,” he says.

Finally, he recounts a now-viral conversation in which he assured his client and friend that he would eventually become the best left-back in the Eurocup. “Okay, In the end, it’s not a fortune teller or anything like that, because you play it safe.. As soon as the first call was made, he already had a match against Brazil, which was quite good at the Bernabeu, and after the two friendlies they will play before the European Cup, we spoke before he went to Germany and I told him that not only would he be in the starting lineup, but I saw him in the ideal lineup.. Luckily for him and for the Spaniards, we were not mistaken, because it also helped the team win the cup.”