Newcastle are reportedly lining up a £50million club-record bid to sign Lyon midfielder Lucas Paqueta.
The Times are reporting that the Magpies are willing to splash £50m on the Brazilian and break the club's record fee paid for a player, which came in January when Newcastle splashed out £43m to sign Paqueta's former teammate Bruno Guimaraes, also from Lyon.
Paqueta has spent the past two seasons at Lyon and has impressed in France, scoring 21 goals in 78 matches in all competitions, despite the Ligue 1 giants missing out on qualification for any of Europe's three club competitions.
