{"id":736650,"date":"2026-06-14T20:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T20:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/736650\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T20:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T20:12:10","slug":"real-madrid-agree-51-8m-deal-for-chelseas-marc-cucurella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/736650\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid agree \u00a351.8m deal for Chelsea’s Marc Cucurella"},"content":{"rendered":"

Real Madrid have agreed a deal worth up to \u00a351.8m to sign Chelsea<\/a> defender Marc Cucurella after the World Cup.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old is currently with Spain at the tournament in the United States, Canada and Mexico, but a deal – worth \u00a347.5m with a further \u00a34.3m in add-ons – has been struck between all parties for a permanent transfer.<\/p>\n

Since president Florentino Perez was re-elected and appointed Jose Mourinho<\/a> as manager, Real are understood to also be targeting Manchester City<\/a> midfielder Bernardo Silva and Inter Milan full-back Denzel Dumfries, while France defender Ibrahima Konate is set to join after leaving Liverpool<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cucurella, who joined Chelsea<\/a> for \u00a363m from Brighton<\/a> in 2022, was understood to have been keen to return to Spain, having come through Barcelona’s academy. He had been linked with Atletico Madrid and a move back to Barcelona<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Catalan also gave an interview during the March international break criticising Chelsea<\/a>‘s hierarchy following Enzo Maresca’s mid-season departure.<\/p>\n

He was part of a core group of Spanish-speaking players who were frustrated by the situation and struggled to perform under Maresca’s successor, Liam Rosenior.<\/p>\n

Cucurella had two years left on his contract, despite agreeing improved terms without an extension last season, which is likely to have played a part in Chelsea<\/a>‘s decision to accept the offer.<\/p>\n

Rosenior was eventually sacked, with Chelsea<\/a> finishing 10th and failing to qualify for Europe despite the temporary appointment of Calum McFarlane as caretaker manager.<\/p>\n

Former Madrid and Bayer Leverkusen boss Xabi Alonso has since been appointed as the club’s permanent manager for the 2026-27 campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Real Madrid have agreed a deal worth up to \u00a351.8m to sign Chelsea defender Marc Cucurella after the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-736650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}