Lucas Paqueta investigated by FA for alleged betting breaches

[houraisen]

 

[Silva2021]

Seems like he does everything to me, tackles, intercepts, passes well, takes players on, assists and scores.

Perfect age at 25 and a season in PL (no guarantee of anything, but surely better then none).

Can play all 3 positions we have in midfield (defensive, attacking and box to box).

Name checked us in June as one of his 2 dream clubs.

I can see why we are in for him, even if 2 weeks a go all I really knew about him was that he had a passion for buying second hand cars.

 

[mancboy]

He spent 1 season disrupted by the world cup, in a new country learnign a new language, and by the end of it he was looking like arguably West Ham's best player and helped them win a first trophy in 40 years.

Someone explain how I'm supposed to think that makes him a bigger risk than the many players we've signed from abroad?

it does because dave from god knows where hasnt heard of him before now and his stats on fifa arent as good as someone from a german team so we prob should sign him instead based on that and if thats the opinion on bluemoon then it must be true because what does pep know

 

[Taylor]

 

[JTFactsPlz]

months ago when jack reported city interest in madison people here didnt want him and now they do

Tbf it seems like it's only one person who wants him.

 

[Adz1108]

potentially yeah as theyve just signed two new midfielders, if they get palmer in as part of the deal , theyve rebuilt their midfield

Surely we don’t want to be offering the likes of Palmer as part of deals? We are probably two outfield players short to cope with the amount of games & got very lucky with injuries last season. If Kevin is out for a while, we are effectively one down even by brining Paqueta in if Palmer goes out on loan.

 

[bobmcfc]

Watched a 30 second YouTube video of him. Guy can pass..

Fuck it I'm all in

 

[Tugay One Cup]

Can see us walking away from this deal unless West Ham lower their over inflated value of him

Why do you turn into Dewey Cox every time we try to sign someone?

 

[mattyb]

Can someone remind me what Kevin De Bruyne, Gvardiol, Ruben Dias, Rodri, Laporte, Bernardo acheived in the Premier League before we spent a lot of money on them?

I think the difference here is that all the players you’ve listed were / are exciting young players with the potential to become world class.

Paqueta will be 26 this month, and for the money we are talking about I’d prefer us to be signing a ready made, established world class player.

 

[foggy1974]

I guess the point is that he has spent time in the premier league whereas the others with the slight exception of KDB haven't.

Still the market seems to have gone nuts and we have to live with it . If he is the best realistic player available and we need a midfielder we will have to overpay compared with historic norms.

You could say the same for Ake, Stones & Walker. They were all expensive outlays when we signed them. 7 years at the club & the 50m fees for both Walker & Stones have worked out extremely well.