- Raking over the events of the last few days will achieve nothing but it hasn’t stopped the finger pointing and recriminations over Lucas Paqueta’s link to a late window move to Aston Villa. Whilst the line from inside West Ham at the weekend was ‘we don’t want to sell him’, that version is challenged today by a new report.
Footballinsider247.com claim in their article “Lucas Paqueta rejected Aston Villa after West Ham board decided to accept offer” offers a different, wise after the event narrative claiming that it was the player who kicked the move into touch. Quoting Mick Brown, apparently a former coach, the report states:
“The West Ham board were prepared to accept a decent offer for him. It’s not that they turned down interest and made efforts to keep him at the club, he wanted to stay rather than making a late move somewhere”
Which is another version of events that some will choose to believe. What is certain is that the stories pedalled in the media that ‘Paqueta doesn’t want to play’ against ‘Forest were rubbish and subtly changed when challenged at the weekend. The art of news disinformation is certainly not dead! Probably that rare commodity, the truth, is somewhere in the middle: Before the window, the board were on record as stating there were only three players who weren’t for sale in the summer, Jarrod Bowen, Aaron Wan-Bissaka and Crysencio Summerville.
Of course, Paquetá’s hearing was not decided at that time so quite possibly the board’s stance shifted later in the summer. By the end of the window Claret and Hugh’s inside source was confirming “He will NOT be sold this window even though he wants to leave.”
Either way, its over. He’ll not be sold now: Happy player, happy Manager, happy fans and a happy board. Whatever the wise after the event stories may claim.
The board are awful and to blame for many issues , they need to sell
What else do you expect from our board Just adds to what everybody is thinking
This is Paqueta’s gift to Westham fans , another season of brilliance playing the beautiful game .
You lot wouldn’t know the truth if it smacked you between the eye’s! He asked to leave, Villa were interested but due to PSR and a large fine from UEFA couldn’t pay upfront as they would’ve usually done. WH didn’t like the deal, fair enough so turned it down that’s when Villa contacted Liverpool and went all in for Elliot. It’s as simple as that, nothing more. I now understand why no club likes dealing with your club and it’s pettiness over everything, so small minded.
It would be interesting to keep a note about the frequency of inaccuracies pedalled by certain fan sites
.. and their supposed jouralists, expert pundits and commentators.
Outing them would be a genuine service to us passionate fans…..whose summer has been very stressful …whilst lining the pockets of these media cartels and their employees.
Would also give pause to great sites like C&H in questioning giving their rumours any airspace at all.
Shame on the board so poor sell up
They use this Mick Brown character a lot he is apparently an ex senior scout for West Ham.
Another pleasant read. Thank you Martin. COYI
SULLIVAN OUT. Shame on him for peddling that
Like I said last week, take everything that comes out of West Ham with a pinch of salt. Add to that, anyone who expects a journalist to put the truth before a juicy bit of gossip, is setting the bar way too high.
I think some journalists just make a living from hounding successful players even once vindicated, maybe it’s a habit born from their jealousy? Leave the bloke alone.
Not aimed at you Martin aimed at the original story.
From what I heard the board refused to sell him for anything less than 60 million. The Villa offer wasn’t high enough.
If Paqueta had sold to Villa would be interesting to know if we’d have signed Harvey Elliot instead of Villa getting him.