Lucas Paqueta investigated by FA for alleged betting breaches

[freshie]

Yeah, the price is steep, but for some perspective:

Cucurella 60m
Havertz 90m and 65m
Rice 105m
Antony 86m
Mudryk 88m
Nunez 85m
Enzo 107m
Lukaku (to Chelsea) 97m
Brighton asking for 100m for Caicedo

West Ham paid 51m for him last summer, can’t say that 70m for him is completely unreasonable

Looked very good once he had settled in at West Ham. Not many players look good playing under Moyes. Extremely underrated defensively and much more of a goalscorer than Gundo was at Dortmund. Works his socks off (sinimar to Bernardo in that aspect) and very dangerous in front of the goal. Pep would elevate this kid to new heights. I’m a fan

They didn’t. It was £38m

 

[TheThirdDeano]

Not world beating but decent enough. Doubt we'd pay £85M for him though but who knows?

Interesting! Thanks mate.

Do you think there’s potential there that pep can do what he does best?

 

[Kippax77]

Probably be another "issued warning" by some writer in the MUEN about him later then in the city section

 

[hammocity]

For a 25 year old World Class Brazilian international ?

He’s not World Class, far from it, seen him have some very ineffective games, how many times was he a substitute or substituted?

 

[pudge]

For a 25 year old World Class Brazilian international ?

A YouTube reel gets you in the Brazil team nowadays to be fair

 

[Kamaro011]

What’s the obsession with how much we pay? Who gives a shit

Twitter user and FIFA player that's why.

 

[Tricky_Trev]

For a 25 year old World Class Brazilian international ?

You have a rather skewed view of what world class looks like.

 

[richards30]

£85m is too expensive.

Optics imo as they have now named a price? Price could include add ons or we sell Phillips or Palmer to them ?

 

[Norman kneejerk]

For a 25 year old World Class Brazilian international ?

How are the hammers at left centre back. Laporte is superb, very strong classy player decent price. .A lot of us are surprised at the lack of links for him unless there's something we don't know.

 

[freshie]

he is 25 with 88 pace , 74 shooting, passing 74, dribbling 84 , 65 physical and defending 46 and overall rating 81. plus point is he can play on both sides LW and RW.

Are you seriously using ratings from a computer game to assess a player’s ability? Get the fuck out of here hahahaha

 

[Mayor West]

Shame the resident Brazilian expert is no longer around... Would love to have his insightful input and thoughts on this transfer.

I can imagine it would go something like this -
Paqueta is better than all your shit midfielders and if anyone disagrees with me I'm going to cry, throw my dolly out of my pram and report you for bullying.

 

[The Nature Boy]

West Ham on the wind up, for what they paid last year he hardly set the league alight albeit in a shit team with a shit manager.

£85 million? Inflation is real.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Player wants out according to @tolmie's hairdoo

He obviously got wind that Maguire was signing for West Ham.

 

[oakiecokie]

What’s the old saying? In Pep we trust. If he wants him, who am I to question it?

Txiki says "Hi" also. ;)

 

[BlueHammer85]

He’s not World Class, far from it, seen him have some very ineffective games, how many times was he a substitute or substituted?

He is.
No biasism on my part but once he settled in the Prem (took him a few months) he stood out and run the show some games and our European run.
I prey it doesn't happen - but if he went City you'd realise.

 

[zandvoort blue]

Expect a transfer request from Paqueta. No way he will stay at WHU if he`s heard that the Hammers have agreed a deal for Maguire.

 

[PragueBlue]

Interesting! Thanks mate.

Do you think there’s potential there that pep can do what he does best?

Certainly potential is there. Always difficult to say how well more attacking players from clubs like WHU will fit in though as they rarely face 11 men behind the ball as our attackers do.

Would be a solid addition but probably more of a rotation player and for the £85M that has been mentioned, I can't see us going that high.

 

[willipp]

85 mil? get fucked. No way we are spending that kind of cash on whats no better than a good squad player us.

 

[Cotton Weave Blue]

His assist to Bowen in the ECL final should be all you need to see. Vision and can help unlock Haaland with KDB and Foden

 

[Cotton Weave Blue]

He is.
No biasism on my part but once he settled in the Prem (took him a few months) he stood out and run the show some games and our European run.
I prey it doesn't happen - but if he went City you'd realise.

From what I saw final third of the season, him and Bowen were the catalyst