Lucas Paqueta investigated by FA for alleged betting breaches

DeBlueLou said:
It's the point of signing Doku and Paqueta... Phil and Bernie can play centrally and wide but have only those two for options on the right will be cause of fatigue. Need depth there to help Bernie and Phil move around and play both if needed.
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personally i would love phil to play behind big erl, those two together imo would be unstoppable
 
West Ham looking at Kudus according to ExWHE.

Most telling will be if hes not starting (which i think he is) tonight.
 
DeBlueLou said:


Definitely going there in the Paqueta deal
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Wouldn't be overly concerned about the buy back, I like the lad and he's talented but I don't think he'll ever be good enough to be a starter here and I'd rather keep the young lads moving from EDS into the squad via the bench places than re-signing players to sit on the bench.
 
80m and Palmer is batshit crazy. Surely there is an alternative who doesn't play for a Premier League club who have already sold their best midfielder for 100m.
 
5 Hit Gibbon said:
It's not my money & if we think he is the right player & we can afford it, then fair play. It just seems a mental amount of money for a player hardly anyone has been talking about. It's not like he set the PL on fire last season. The market is crazy at the moment.
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Haven't we been done this road before. Watching the game last night on US Network & Lee Dixon roughly said that Akanji is probably the best bit of transfer business in the last decade.
100m is a hell of a lot of money but so was £60m for Mahrez at the time. The board have shown in the past especially with Mahrez & Grealish that if they think it's worth it then they will spend the cash.
 
foggy1974 said:
Haven't we been done this road before. Watching the game last night on US Network & Lee Dixon roughly said that Akanji is probably the best bit of transfer business in the last decade.
100m is a hell of a lot of money but so was £60m for Mahrez at the time. The board have shown in the past especially with Mahrez & Grealish that if they think it's worth it then they will spend the cash.
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I'm sure we will only pay what we think he is worth. This kind of fee makes the Grealish one look reasonable, so maybe in a few years we will look back and say this fee was good business at the time, when people are then paying over £200m for players.
 
Kippax Street 1880 said:
80m and Palmer is batshit crazy. Surely there is an alternative who doesn't play for a Premier League club who have already sold their best midfielder for 100m.
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Do you not think that the club, with probably the best scouting network in the world have looked & haven't seen anyone who fits what Pep wants & is obtainable.
 
5 Hit Gibbon said:
I'm sure we will only pay what we think he is worth. This kind of fee makes the Grealish one look reasonable, so maybe in a few years we will look back and say this fee was good business at the time, when people are then paying over £200m for players.
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The market has gone crazy when you think Caicedo at £111m, Rice £115m & Enzo at £105m are the norm, good players but you wouldn't say they were top 5 players in the world.
Aguero for £38m was a hell of a lot of money at the time but now is a steal.
 
foggy1974 said:
Do you not think that the club, with probably the best scouting network in the world have looked & haven't seen anyone who fits what Pep wants & is obtainable.
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If the price is 80m and Palmer then he isn't obtainable from my perspective. Thats a 120m outlay on someone nobody even wanted 3 weeks ago. I like the player and he'd do well for us. But this is nuts. Unless we can somehow convince them to take the Yorkshire pudding off our hands for a significant portion of the fee this deal is dead in the water imo. Whats the point of selling Palmer when we would just need to sign another winger for 50 million to replace him (and Doku is half the player Cole is)
 
Kippax Street 1880 said:
If the price is 80m and Palmer then he isn't fucking obtainable from my perspective. Thats a 120m outlay on someone nobody even wanted 3 weeks ago. I like the player and he'd do well for us. But this is nuts. Unless we can somehow convince them to take the Yorkshire pudding off our hands for a significant portion of the fee this deal is dead in the water imo. Whats the point of selling Palmer when we would just need to sign another winger for 50 million to replace him (and fucking Doku is half the player Cole is)
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What a load of nonsense.
 
Kippax Street 1880 said:
80m and Palmer is batshit crazy. Surely there is an alternative who doesn't play for a Premier League club who have already sold their best midfielder for 100m.
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If its 80-85 its gonna be Cole on loan... If they are buying him, City rejected 30m from Brighton apparently. So they'll get a fair price if City gets a fair one for Paqueta.
 
DeBlueLou said:
If its 80-85 its gonna be Cole on loan... If they are buying him, City rejected 30m from Brighton apparently. So they'll get a fair price if City gets a fair one for Paqueta.
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So West Ham will just drop their best forward Bowen to develop Cole for a year for City then ? If we sell him for 40 million and buy Doku for 50 then we've wasted 10 million and made the team worse.
 
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