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Lucas Paqueta joined Lyon from AC Milan for £18m in September 2020

Supervisor David Moyes has confirmed West Ham United have made a bid for Lyon’s Brazil midfielder Lucas Paqueta.

The Hammers are reported to have made a proposal of about £34mexternal-link for the 24-year-old.

Paqueta scored 9 objectives and contributed six assists in 35 Ligue 1 appearances final season.

“We’ve bid for him,” stated Moyes, who was talking earlier than the membership’s Europa Convention League qualifying tie in opposition to Viborg on Thursday.

“He can play as a quantity 10, an eight, he performs as a false 9 for Brazil very often. I feel his pedigree is actually good,” he added.

“Pedigree would not at all times assure that it really works, however you’d hope that it helps in direction of him probably getting higher.”

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Paqueta, who has scored seven occasions in 33 video games for Brazil, performed for Lyon in opposition to West Ham in final season’s Europa League quarter-final, which the Hammers received 4-1 on mixture.

He has scored 21 occasions and contributed 14 assists in his 80 appearances for Lyon since becoming a member of from AC Milan two years in the past.

Moyes’ aspect are the one Premier League membership but to earn a degree or rating a purpose after three matches this season, following defeats in opposition to Manchester Metropolis, Nottingham Forest and Brighton.

Moyes signed left-back Emerson Palmieri from Chelsea in a deal understood to be price £15m on Tuesday – their seventh signing of the summer season.

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