Man City set to cancel £80 million deal to pursue Bayern Munich star instead

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Manchester City are reportedly growing tired of waiting for a resolution in the ongoing investigation into Lucas Paqueta’s betting activity.

Although he denies any wrongdoing, Paqueta, 26, is currently being investigated by sporting authorities after alleged suspicious betting activity was flagged from an address near the Brazilian’s hometown near Rio.

The FA’s ongoing investigation has stalled Manchester City’s pursuit, despite the treble-winners already agreeing a reported £80 million transfer fee with West Ham United and personal terms with the player (Sky Sports).

And now, according to a recent report from Football Transfers, the Citizens, after growing tired of waiting for an outcome, are preparing to pull the plug on the potential deal for the Hammers’ midfielder, and could instead turn their attention to Bayern Munich’s Serge Gnabry.

It has been claimed that Gnabry, 28, is a player of ‘significant interest’ to Pep Guardiola, and one that could be targeted as an alternative to Paqueta.

Gnabry has two-and-a-half-years left on his contract, but after falling out of favour with manager Thomas Tuchel and starting just three Bundesliga games this season, seeing the Stuttgart-born wide-man offloaded in the coming windows would no longer be such a surprise.

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4 Comments

  1. Good news for Westham , but Paqueta has a case to sue those organizations that have damaged his earnings potential and career with these unfounded accusations based on here say . There must be punishment for those organizations that make public , unfounded allegations that can destroy someones career . Paqueta should sue for 100’s of millions as he certainly would have won much silverware with City as well as making 10 million a year with City .

  2. If city do back out then you can guarantee the other so called big clubs will try to sign him it would be a disaster if he was to leave our hopes of going up to the next level would be difficult to say the least

  3. The people making these allegation are the same as the ones who want tax free world cups and gave Saudi Arabia (human rights denier’s and murderers’
    a slot well pleased we kept him. They have no evidence

  4. So the same people who are outspoken in condemning Manchester City over 115 as yet unproven rule breaches are appalled at the as yet unproven accusations against one of their players.
    How very tribal.

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