Marc Cucurella had a tongue-in-cheek message for Erling Haaland after Luis de la Fuente’s Spain were crowned the champions of Euro 2024.
Cucurella had his fingerprints all over his nation’s 2-1 win against England on Sunday — providing arguably the best assist of the tournament for Mikel Oyarzabal’s winner and keeping Bukayo Saka quiet.
The Chelsea left-back’s cross was fizzed in right into Oyarzabal’s path, who slid the ball past Jordan Pickford into the back of the net.
After what has been a tough two-year spell for him at Stamford Bridge, the 25-year-old has well and truly redeemed himself.
Erling Haaland would have tuned into the contest to discover whether either Rodri or Phil Foden, John Stones and Kyle Walker would have had a gold medal around their necks at the end of the game.
Chelsea’s Marc Cucurella makes tongue-in-cheek Erling Haaland joke
The Spanish international reigned supreme — who has won double the number of trophies (eight) than the games he has lost (four) since the start of 2023.
Norway failed to qualify for the European Championship, giving Manchester City’s number nine the summer to rest and recoup after yet another long season.
The 23-year-old’s name was out of the headlines — despite him perhaps being disappointed about not being able to compete at the competition alongside fellow Norwegian and City player Oscar Bobb.
As Spain were celebrating their victory against England to become the champions of Europe, Cucurella sang a song that was aimed at Haaland in seeming jest, as shared by journalist Ben Jacobs on X.
The former Brighton & Hove Albion defender sang: “[Marc] Cucurella eats paella. Cucurella drinks Estrella. Haaland trembles because Cucurella is coming!”
Erling Haaland will not mind the Marc Cucurella song
Ultimately, Haaland will likely not mind the fact that Cucurella sang the song after Spain’s triumph in Germany.
The song was far from a barb at the Norwegian superstar and comes across as quite harmless.
Haaland can also perhaps imagine how overjoyed he would be if Norway had won a major tournament.
In the heat of the moment, perhaps the two-time Premier League winner would also have been happily signing a similar song — even if it was in jest about another player.
Cucurella likely holds Haaland in high esteem, having played against him for Chelsea on numerous instances.