Pablo Fornals says 25-year-old West Ham player is ridiculously good in training

Thu 10 August 2023 8:55, UK

West Ham United playmaker Pablo Fornals has admitted that Lucas Paqueta is scarily good in training.

Fornals on the Iron Cast Podcast about his Brazilian teammate.

Lucas Paqueta is suddenly the biggest talking point at the London Stadium in the build-up to the Premier League restarting.

West Ham would have gone into the summer knowing that the biggest talking point was likely to be the future of captain Declan Rice.

After weeks of negotiation, Rice eventually joined Arsenal for a club-record fee.

David Moyes appears to finally be in the process of replacing the 24-year-old.

Both Edson Alvarez and James Ward-Prowse could arrive at the club in the coming days.

However, the last thing the club need is to try and replace Lucas Paqueta this summer too.

Pablo Fornals has admitted that Paqueta is unbelievable in West Ham training behind the scenes.

He’s started to show that potential in competitive games too and Manchester City have now been alerted to his availability.

Fornals raves about Paqueta in West Ham training

Speaking about the 25-year-old, : “We are lucky to have the players that we have, they can change the game in two seconds.

“Like, once you leave [Lucas] Paqueta time to think and runners, sorry I don’t want to say the word!

“You’re killed as a defence because he’s such a great baller, and also Jarrod [Bowen] finishing is unreal.

“It was our best passer with our best scorer.

“He’s what you always see in videos, always smiling, trying to dance but yeah he’s like that.

“He’s always reproducing great actions in training, the same as in the game.”

West Ham face Bournemouth on Saturday and Fornals will hope Paqueta is still at the club to face The Cherries.

Bournemouth have spent big in the transfer window this summer and brought in new manager Andoni Iraola.

Their business in the past two months has been in stark contrast to West Ham’s and Saturday’s result will be interesting to see.

After such an incredible end to last season in the Europa Conference League, the new campaign has got off to a very shaky start.