Man City told Paqueta transfer price as West Ham worry about ‘Dimitri Payet sequel’
In order to get the services of West Ham star Lucas Paqueta, Manchester City will need to shell out £85 million.
This amount corresponds to a release provision in Paqueta’s contract with the Hammers, which is scheduled to go into effect the following year. After selling Decan Rice to Arsenal earlier this summer, the Irons are eager to hold on to the Brazilian international who they purchased from Lyon one year ago for a fee of £51.3 million.
However, they are concerned that Paqueta will get even more agitated if they refuse to sell him to the team that won the European championship. He has made it very apparent that he wants to move to Etihad, and the board of directors for the Hammers are eager to prevent a situation similar to the one they went through with Dimitri Payet at the beginning of 2017.
The Frenchman was an immediate hit, but after agreeing to a big contract that would pay him £125,000 per week over the course of five years, he abruptly quit his job to demand a £25 million transfer back to Marseille.
On the heels of a difficult offseason that has already begun, the last thing that David Moyes’s squad needs is for one of their finest players in the camp to be displeased.
Paqueta, who is now 25 years old, needed some time to adjust after making a record signing, but by the end of the previous season, he was beginning to live up to expectations. In 36 games in all competitions, he had five goals scored against him.
As a matter of fact, Pep Guardiola, the manager of Manchester City, is a huge fan of him, and his quest for another playmaker has escalated as a result of the fact that Kevin De Bruyne suffered a recurrence of his bothersome calf injury during the team’s victory at Burnley on Friday.
However, the Spaniard is aware that the three-time champions must drastically increase their most recent offer of sixty million pounds (which was turned down the previous week) in order to convince the Londoners to enter into business negotiations.
If England midfielder Kalvin Phillips, who currently plays for City, were to switch teams, that would be one possible answer. The former Leeds player has a market worth of £50 million, and West Ham United manager David Moyes is interested in signing him to bolster his team’s midfield and defense.
Man City told Paqueta transfer price as West Ham worry about ‘Dimitri Payet sequel’