Man City told £100m Paqueta bid ‘will be accepted by West Ham’ – expert
00million if they wantMan City will have to spend £1 to sign Lucas Paqueta from West Ham this summer.
Speaking exclusively to Football Insider, former West Ham striker Frank McAvennie has claimed that David Sullivan will look to sell Paqueta for a price which was similar to Declan Rice’s £105million move to Arsenal.
The Manchester giants had a £70million-plus offer for the 25-year-old rejected by the Hammers last week and have now submitted a new £80m+ bid.
Paqueta cost the Londoners a club-record reported fee of £51million when he joined from French giants Lyon last summer
The Brazil international signed a five-year deal upon his arrival at the London Stadium – and that contract can be extended a further 12 months by West Ham.
With Paqueta heavily courted by Man City, McAvennie believes that the Citizens will have to spend heavily to sign the Brazillian.
“Mr Sullivan will accept no less than £100m for Paqueta,” he told Football Insider.
“If City bid £80million and add another £18million on adds on then I could see West Ham accepting an offer.
“Paqueta has got a great touch, and he’s got a great awareness.
“You could see when West Ham started playing the front foot and he just come in to his own and he started to show that he is a wonderful talent.
“He’s typical old-fashioned Brazilian player that gets everyone in the stadium off their feet whenever he touches the ball, as you’re expecting him to produce something quality.”
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West Ham United are in touch with the entourage of Genk winger Mike Tresor and
The Hammers have seen a possible move to Manchester City for Lucas Paqueta thrown into doubt amid an investigation into potential breaches of betting rules.
David Moyes’ side are keen to see whether Paqueta’s move might still happen as they plot their other transfer business.
are keen to make progress next week.
And Genk winger Tresor is a player of big interest to West Ham.
The Hammers are in contact with the 24-year-old’s camp, according to Belgian journalist Sacha Tavolieri, leaving him fully aware that the Premier League side are keen on him.
West Ham are looking to make progress on a swoop for Tresor next week and are expected to establish contact with Genk.
He is a key player at the Belgian side and contributed an astonishing 24 assists in 39 league appearances last term.
The prospect of a move to the Premier League is likely to appeal to the Belgium international, who has two more years left on his Genk deal.
The 90min journalist said on the Talking Transfers podcast on 18 August that with Gianluca Scamacca gone and veteran Hammers favourite Antonio, 33, apparently dead set on following the versatile Ajax star is being targeted for use up front.
The Ghanian international, 23, can play in a variety of positions and the Eredivisie side want as much as £44million for him [Guardian, 18 August], but after links to Brighton it could now be a one-in, one-out move at the London Stadium.
Bailey said (38.45s): “It’s our understanding that he might be used as a centre-forward at West Ham, which might explain why West Ham not Brighton. Would he play as a centre-forward at Brighton? Probably not…
“At West Ham there’s a clear path to playing that role there. Scamacca’s gone, Antonio is desperate to go, we know that…
“I think there is that role from him to play as an Antonio replacement up there… I think that’s a great [move]”
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Turnover
With all the incoming business at West Ham condensed into the final few weeks of the window the club are facing a situation where as fast as they line up new arrivals more gaps potentially need filling.
It took the club far too long to populate the space left after Declan Rice’s move to Arsenal but that key task has been completed with the deals for Edson Alvarez and James Ward-Prowse.
It looked like Lucas Paqueta was going to depart and need replacing as well until the betting investigation from the FA emerged to seemingly end his prospects of a move to Manchester City, but Scamacca has already left the striking options looking light.
