Dimi Payet; the Epilogue

Ravel49

From Kaveh Solhekol:

D27P trained with the u23's today
Trained on his own yest

alderz

He's working his way back!

Tomorrow: trains with the first team
Friday: carried around on a plinth by the rest of the team
Saturday: becomes manager
Sunday: rests

iron_pants

alderz said:

He's working his way back!

Tomorrow: trains with the first team
Friday: carried around on a plinth by the rest of the team
Saturday: becomes manager
Sunday: rests

And what has Craig David got to do with this?

Ravel49

iron_pants said:

alderz said:

He's working his way back!

Tomorrow: trains with the first team
Friday: carried around on a plinth by the rest of the team
Saturday: becomes manager
Sunday: rests

And what has Craig David got to do with this?

He's walking away

Tomw85

;lol ;clap ;bowdown

SuzanneClaret

;lol ;clap

McHammer

Chilled on Sunday ;quaver

Ravel49

Marseille does have lovely beaches

Maybe DP is thinking about early retirement

and who can blame

;beer

lololol

McHammer

http://talksport.com/football/west-ham-fc-transfer-news-chinese-super-league-club-hebei-fortune-want-hammers-rebel

SuzanneClaret

They can have him for 50mil.

SuzanneClaret

I'll even sort out the shipping crate myself.

OldCastleSwift

Oh the ignominy. Not only banished to the reserves, but he has to train with Captain Fantastic too...

IronHerb

The first freight train on the new link between China and Barking arrived today so it wouldn't cost too much to box him up and send him there.

grey_til_I_dye

We're gonna box him up
We're gonna ship him out
Ain't nothing about Dimi
That we care about.

I said 1 - 2 - 3 ship your Dimi out

I said 1 - 2 - 3 ship your Dimi out, yeah

SuzanneClaret

;wahoo ;handbag ;wahoo

claretandbluesky

I wonder if Marseille thougt they could tap him up get him to kick up a fuss and have their player at a price of their choosing, and now we are saying no and expecting a reasonable sum they recognise you cant really pay 30m for a 30 year old. Poor Dimi's tail will be between his legs.

Sully stand your ground!

Jorderz_Moyes_will_be_Moyes

I can't see anybody paying £30 million for Payet.

One very good season after ten years of nobody ever having heard of him, then the next season turns into a lazy, strop-throwing liability and refuses to play for his club only a few months into a huge long-term contract (for whatever reason).

Who pays £30 million for that?

TwistandShout

Considering Bolasie and Sissoko both cost 30 million... Payet is on a different planet

Jorderz_Moyes_will_be_Moyes

Maybe. But what about the fact he's had one amazing season in ten or twelve?

What about his age?

What about his attitude?

I'm not so sure he's worth as much as he hoped he would be when this kicked off.

But I guess we'll find out as the window goes on ;hmm

Jorderz_Moyes_will_be_Moyes

Don't get me wrong, relative to the market and other recent deals, he is worth a lot.

BUT the market doesn't always work like that. He's worth as much as a team wants/needs him.

He's too lazy for the managers of Chelsea, United, City, Liverpool and Spurs. Arsenal don't pay big on players of his age. Madrid and Barca aren't signing anybody, the rest of La Liga is skint.

So you're left with Marseille who sold him for £10 million only last season (how do they feel about buying him back for £30 million?) or PSG maybe, a big German team? Or China, who would pay big, but probably unlikely.

;hmm

baracks_a_hammer

The one consolation is if we flogged him for £25m and he produced wonders for Marseille at least it wouldn't be in our league, and therefore we would not have our faces openly rubbed in the dirt

Vorselaarhammer

The West Ham squad had arranged to go out for dinner via their WhatsApp group which Obiang removed Dimitri Payet from. [via @ExWHUemployee]

Mark Noble and James Collins told Payet that he was not invited to join them for their squad meal out. [via @ExWHUemployee]

WHU_Champo_league_in_7_years

Surely he's good as gone then

Sell him as he's never ever going to play if he's lost the support of his teammates (add the fans made their feelings clear)

SuzanneClaret

I don't think ExWHUEmp should have put that in the public domain. It to me smacks of snooping.

alderz

Depends if you believe him or not, Suz.

I do like the idea of Noble and Ginge stood arms crossed telling him he can't come out to play though.

SuzanneClaret

I'm inclined to not believe him.

chicagohammer

Me too,

however as an observation,

I doubt that Ginge would need Nobles help in blocking his entrance to the restaurant

McHammer

http://talksport.com/football/dimitri-payet-will-never-play-west-ham-again-and-he-will-be-sold-month-harry-redknapp-tells

claretandbluesky

I don't think they should take less than 30m as otherwise we would find it hard to spend the money on as significant a player (if 20m gets you Andre Ayew). Although he is 30 he has a rare ability and is one of those rare players who make teams better on their own and can change and win matches with flashes of brilliance. He may not be Messi, Suarez, Ronaldo or Bale but he is in the next tier down and that for me means he cannot go for ordinary money, and in this crazy world now 20m is ordinairy premiership money, Spurs seem to be asking 20m for Ben Davies which should make Payet a lot more than 30m.

OldCastleSwift

SuzanneClaret said:

I'm inclined to not believe him.

I was a bit ;hmm when he said it, but there must be something in it otherwise it's libellous and I'm just not sure that he would take that risk.

It's one thing to speculate on transfers, but to make such a definite statement suggests to me that it may well be true.