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.”
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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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Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
