Marc Cucurella reveals Chelsea team-mate tried to smooth things over with Erling Haaland after Spaniard’s bizarre song
MARC CUCURELLA has revealed Cole Palmer attempted to clear the air with Erling Haaland after the Spaniard performed a song about the Manchester City striker.
During Spain‘s celebrations after winning the Euros this summer, Chelsea left-back Cucurella, 26, was filmed singing: “Cucurella eats paella, Cucurella drinks Estrella, Haaland trembles that Cucurella is coming.”
Haaland, 24, responded by shrugging off the Blues defender before scoring Man City’s opener in their 2-0 win at Stamford Bridge last month.
Haaland also blanked Cucurella when the defender hit the floor with cramp.
When asked about Cucurella after the game, the Norwegian said: “Well, Cucurella is a funny man.
“Last season he asked for my shirt… and this summer he sings a song about me.”
Now Cucurella has divulged that Chelsea forward Palmer, a former team-mate of Haaland’s at Man City, attempted to smooth the situation over by talking to him at an awards ceremony.
Speaking to Efe, Cucurella said: “A lot of attention was given to that [the song] and these things happen.
“I am very happy and I think that if someone has a song sung with his name it is because he is a top player or a world star, the name of a player who is not known would not be used.
“Everyone is happy because he scored and I am still just as happy to win the Euro. I would do it again, these things happen and that is all.
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“In the end, in England they took it a little out of context and I don’t think he [Haaland] understood it either.
“He read what they said and took it a little personally.
“Nowadays people take things very personally, but then they had some awards and my colleague [Cole] Palmer asked him about me and that was it. It was just an anecdote.”
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