{"id":1177,"date":"2026-06-03T10:37:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T10:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2026-06-03T10:37:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T10:37:44","slug":"revealed-marc-cucurellas-asking-price-as-chelsea-set-fee-amid-real-madrid-barcelona-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=1177","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: Marc Cucurella&#8217;s asking price as Chelsea set fee amid Real Madrid &#038; Barcelona interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\" data-affiliate-button-variant=\"D\">\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\"><span>Atletico Madrid have emerged as the primary suitors for Cucurella, viewing the 27-year-old as a priority signing to bolster their defensive options. Diego Simeone\u2019s side is expected to open formal negotiations with Chelsea in the coming weeks, hoping to wrap up a deal before other interested parties solidify their plans. The Spanish club has already initiated contact through sporting director Mateu Alemany as they look to steal a march on their rivals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\"><span>While Atletico are keen to move quickly, a significant gap in valuation remains between the two clubs. Reports suggest that\u00a0Atleti are currently aiming for a deal worth under \u00a343 million (\u20ac50m\/$58m). Meanwhile, according to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/talksport.com\/football\/4300894\/chelsea-marc-cucurella-transfer-update\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\"><i><em>talkSPORT<\/em><\/i><\/a><span>Chelsea are holding out for a figure closer to \u00a361m (\u20ac70m\/$82m), knowing the player still has three years remaining on his contract.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atletico Madrid have emerged as the primary suitors for Cucurella, viewing the 27-year-old as a priority signing to bolster their&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}