{"id":41369,"date":"2025-08-02T08:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T08:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/41369\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T08:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T08:12:07","slug":"report-city-back-in-for-paqueta-following-fa-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/41369\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: City Back in For Paqueta Following FA Verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City are set to renew their interest in West Ham playmaker Lucas Paquet\u00e1, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/man-city-set-sights-on-new-lucas-paqueta-bid-after-confirmed-west-ham-news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Football Insider<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The website claims that Pep Guardiola has set his sights on the Brazilian midfielder he narrowly missed out on two years ago. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.claretandhugh.info\/lucas-paqueta-bio\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paquet\u00e1<\/a> was on the verge of joining City before news broke of the FA\u2019s investigation into suspicious betting patterns surrounding several yellow cards.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, the Manchester club were expected to trigger Paquet\u00e1\u2019s \u00a385 million release clause but withdrew their interest once the investigation was made public.<\/p>\n<p>    Most Read on West Ham News<\/p>\n<p>Now, Football Insider are suggesting the deal could be back on, with City continuing their ambitious summer recruitment drive.<\/p>\n<p>Before anyone gets too concerned, it\u2019s worth noting that Mick Brown\u2014speaking on the same platform this week\u2014claimed West Ham could accept \u00a330 million for Paquet\u00e1. That figure is simply not accurate.<\/p>\n<p>Graham Potter in no rush to sell our record signing and certainly wouldn\u2019t consider parting with him for anything close to that amount.<\/p>\n<p>A source close to the player told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.claretandhugh.info\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Claret &amp; Hugh<\/a> earlier this week that Paquet\u00e1 is more than happy to remain at the London Stadium and is not pushing for a move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester City are set to renew their interest in West Ham playmaker Lucas Paquet\u00e1, according to Football Insider.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-41369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}