{"id":25146,"date":"2025-07-27T04:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T04:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/25146\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T04:13:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T04:13:12","slug":"west-ham-news-the-times-sensational-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/25146\/","title":{"rendered":"West Ham news | The Times: \u201d Sensational victory\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

West Ham United has been a troubled place for players, staff and fans for about the last two years. In the summer of \u201923 \u2013 just weeks after the joys of Prague, the club\u2019s short-lived contentment was torn apart by the FA allegations of \u2018yellow cards for bets\u2019 in mid August, destroying the player\u2019s planned \u00a385 million move to Manchester City and West Ham\u2019s deal to receive Cole Palmer<\/a> plus cash in exchange for the Brazilian\u2019s sale.<\/p>\n

Two full years later and TheTimes<\/a>.com\u00a0last night broke the story that Paqueta had been cleared of all charges and freed at last from the threat of a lifetime ban.<\/p>\n

According to journalists Matt Lawton and Martyn Ziegler:<\/p>\n

Most Read on West Ham News<\/p>\n

\u201cLucas Paquet\u00e1 is set to be cleared of charges of spot-fixing in what would be a sensational victory for West Ham United\u2019s Brazilian midfielder\u2026. Sources with knowledge of the case have told The Times that the player is understood to have been cleared by an independent regulatory commission, with the decision due to be announced next week.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sensational indeed. For the player, who has maintained incredible dignity and composure under the most challenging public scrutiny. Sensational for West Ham: Their asset \u2013 and their transfer window \u2013 is now unblocked and potentially a \u00a330-\u00a350 million player once again. And for Hammers fans \u2013 perhaps the lifting of a very dark cloud.<\/p>\n

If Paqueta is sold \u2013 I\u2019d suggest he\u2019ll want a fresh start whether elsewhere in the Premier League, in the Middle East or in Brazil ( As far away from the English Football Association as possible) \u2013 then the Hammers will find themselves with a vacancy for a playmaker but suddenly with the wherewithal to afford a James McAtee or a Harvey Elliott.<\/p>\n

Which won\u2019t wind the clock back two years and get Paqueta his dream move nor West Ham their \u00a385 million. But it might mean \u2013 (always assuming the report in thetimes.com is correct: Those are two hugely respected journalists, by the way) \u2013 that player, club and fans can start to move forward with \u2013 perhaps \u2013 optimism for the future. Spare us Callum bloody Wilson and we might even raise a smile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Ham United has been a troubled place for players, staff and fans for about the last two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-25146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}