Post: Kukurelia never violates Chelsea rules, Manchester City once thought he couldn t sell 50 million

On May 25, the Post published an article talking about the reasons why Chelsea defender Cucurella has been welcomed and praised this season.

Chelsea has a set of fines set by the head coach and captain management, and at the beginning of the season, this regulation will be sent to all players through group chats. What if the training is late? That's fine. Late on the match day? Oops, double fine, and thousands of pounds fine. But during his three years at Cucurelia for Chelsea, he has never been fined for violating these rules. He never violated it, whether it was late, throwing dirty socks on the locker room floor, or forgetting to turn the phone into silent mode at a team meeting hosted by Maresca.

Chelsea teammates revealed anonymously that Cucurelia is always the first to arrive in training and the last to leave. She is extremely diligent and full of energy. She is the most popular person for Cobham, and the outside world has misunderstandings about him. Because he was very punctual, he also won the nickname "CucuClock". Cucurella's impeccable discipline has greatly helped Chelsea this season, and no Premier League defender scored more goals than he did after Maresca told him he could go into the penalty area and create threats.

How did Cucurella go from being "disliked" to becoming Chelsea's number one threat? First of all, we have to mention his signature hair, people can recognize him by the outline alone, and the players look more likely than anyone else to receive sponsorship from the shampoo brand. Manchester City also said to have wanted to sign Cucurella, but this is what they said to Brighton: If you can sell Cucurella for more than 50 million pounds, they will congratulate them at the next Premier League board meeting. Later, Chelsea finally reached an agreement with Brighton for Cucurella's transfer for 56 million pounds, with a transaction of up to 63 million pounds.

However, five weeks after Cucurella joined Chelsea, then-head coach Tuchel was fired. The successor Porter tried to use Kukurelia as the third central defender, but the effect was not good. During that season, the player even got booed by Blues fans when he came on as a substitute. Cucurella is a player who likes to watch his game video for analysis. Regarding this experience, a club source said: "It was a very difficult time, especially with some unknown issues behind it." Cucurella also contacted everything with Manchester United on loan, but because the quotation of 2 million pounds by Premier League opponent at that time was rejected, the deal failed.

Now, Kukurelia's performance makes people think he is worth £63 million in transfer fees. He also has a close relationship with Enzo. Both of them responded to criticism with excellent performance after joining Chelsea at a high price. Chelsea's Spanish players also have their own group chat. Cucurella and Enzo have one thing in common, that is, they are good at irritating their opponents and are not afraid of annoying others because of this. This provocation is necessary because this team is the youngest team in the Premier League, and Maresca does not want them to be bullied by their opponents.

Chelsea executives appreciate the team's current results and plan to evaluate which players deserve a raise after the Club World Cup this summer. Kesedo was selected as the Player of the Season and the most popular player among fans, but Cucurella is no less. Some inside the club believe that Kukurelia is also worthy of these awards.