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Hammers hit Lyon with third Paqueta bid

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Exclusive by Hughie Southon

West Ham have made a third bid for Lyon’s Lucas Paqueta.

And the club has told CandH exclusively they are expecting to hear later today whether it has been accepted by the French Ligue 1 club.

Hammers boss David Moyes has made the exciting midfielder a priority signing and we have been told that the club are doing everything in their power to make it happen.

Early reports that we had offered around £33.7 million for the 25 year old were denied by the Hammers who made it clear the offer was closer to £40 million.

They have since been back with a second bid in an attempt to get closer to the £50 million plus add ons wanted by Lyon and having seen that rejected have now made a third bid.

Should the offer be accepted it would take the Hammers spending this summer to around £200 million once agents’ fees are included.

We were told by a key source this morning: “We have gone back with third bid, we can’t go any further. We expect to hear today.”

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Hugh Southon is a lifelong Iron and the founding editor of ClaretandHugh. He is a national newspaper journalist of many years experience and was Bobby Moore's 'ghost' writer during the great man's lifetime. He describes ClaretandHugh as "the Hammers daily newspaper!"

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3 comments

  • Clive says:

    Not spending anything in Winter window means we can be one of the biggest spenders in the summer window. We are spending Moyes winter savings on top of summer budget I guess.

  • Budgie says:

    According to today’s Telegraph we have signed Paqueta for £52.6million and he is on way to London for a medical. . If so can we put to rest that GSB don’t spend any money.
    I think we are now the third highest spenders in Europe in current window!

  • Clive says:

    All done and dusted according to ITKs. This will be a great signing. I think this guy could potentially have same impact as Payet.

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