The Manchester City have made a £70m bid for their 3 rd transfer target

Manchester City has offered 70 million pounds to West Ham for midfielder Lucas Paqueta, claims - Globo, quoted by the English media. Fabrizio Romano confirms that the European champions' interest in the Brazilian is very specialfic and he is on Josep Guardiola's transfer list. The two clubs will hold direct talks this week. Negotiations will not be easy for the Citizens, as West Ham have already sold Declan Rice to Arsenal and David Moyes will not want to loses his second key player in the midfield. It is precisely for this reason that the Londoners are expected to reject the afrementioned first offer from Man City.

The Hammers signed Paqueta just a yaear ago from Lyon when they paid £53m for him. The Brazilian had a very strong debut season and recoraded 41 appearances in all competitions, scoring five goals and providing seven assists.

Manchester City strengthened with Mateo Kovacic and Josko Guardiol, but Guardiola lost Ilkay Gundogan and Riyad Mahrez. There are still rumors about the future of Bernardo Silva, who is wanted strongly by Barcelona and Paris Saint Germain. Because of all this, the City manager also wants to bring in an attacking midfielder like Paqueta.