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title: "Newcastle United: Jacque Talbot drops Lucas Paqueta transfer news"
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language: "en-GB"
author: "Adam Clancy"
section: "Follow up"
published: "2022-06-20T18:15:16Z"
modified: "2022-06-20T18:15:16Z"
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# Newcastle United: Jacque Talbot drops Lucas Paqueta transfer news

**Journalist Jacque Talbot has now dropped some big [Newcastle United](https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/newcastle-united-news/) transfer news regarding Lucas Paqueta.**

### The Lowdown: £50m mooted

As per [The Times](https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/newcastle-ready-to-break-transfer-record-for-50m-midfielder-lucas-paqueta-85djxc9pq), the St James’ Park club are prepared to break their transfer record to sign the 24-year-old this summer.

The Lyon midfielder is thought to cost in the region of £50m, and the Magpies have been weighing up whether they should make a move for him.

### The Latest: Paqueta transfer latest

Speaking to [GIVEMESPORT](https://www.givemesport.com/88023452-newcastle-50m-star-is-not-going-to-make-summer-move-to-st-james-park), Talbot has said that Paqueta will not be moving to Tyneside this summer, despite Newcastle’s reported interest.

The journalist outlined: *“He came to Newcastle to visit on holiday and I think it has literally stemmed from that. He’s friends with Bruno Guimaraes.*

*“I’ve been told from loads of sides – from the club side and the player side – there is nothing in Paqueta. He’s not going to go to Newcastle.*

*“Newcastle had him on a list, I think, in January. They like him, he is a talented player and he’s not happy at Lyon because of Juninho. In fact, Juninho has left and he is a little bit unsettled there, but Newcastle are not going to pay £50million for a player who is not in a priority position.”*

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### The Verdict: It’s a shame

It would be a shame for the Magpies to miss out on Paqueta, as he could have linked up again with his compatriot former Lyon team-mate Bruno Guimaraes.

As Talbot points out, the duo are friends, and they could have formed a mouth-watering Brazilian trio with Joelinton in Newcastle’s midfield.

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Paqueta scored an impressive 11 goals and supplied a further seven assists across all competitions last season ([Transfermarkt](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/lucas-paqueta/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/444523/plus/0?saison=2021&verein=&liga=&wettbewerb=&pos=&trainer_id=)), so he would have helped to ease the goalscoring burden on attackers Allan Saint-Maximin and Callum Wilson, who were the Magpies’ [most productive](https://www.whoscored.com/Teams/23/Show/England-Newcastle-United) assets in the final third in 2021/22.

Nonetheless, it is time to move onto other targets now, with [Ibrahim Sangare](https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/newcastle-united-news/sangare-newcastle-transfer-latest-pete-orourke-bruno-guimaraes/) and [Moussa Diaby](https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/newcastle-united-news/bayer-leverkusen-transfer-news-diaby-sky-sports/) the latest names to be linked with a move to Eddie Howe’s team.

***In other news,*** [***NUFC are now ‘interested’ in this ‘supernatural’ speedster***](https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/newcastle-united-news/bayer-leverkusen-transfer-news-diaby-sky-sports/)