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Or loan him, until we get the price we want.
1. (thanks to JayinCpt for this) the potential for injury. If he is severely injured while on loan, we may never get the big money deal we want in the summer, or ever.
2. What if this 'family issue' is really badly affecting him and he plays really poor even back home in France. His value drops and we don't get the big bucks come summer.
However if we keep him until the summer I feel his value remains high as people remember his previous good form (and in France especially his performances in the Euros) and we get our large transfer when the french teams compete more with available funds come summer. Also if he moves out to France now while we aren't playing him, by not attending training he is breaking contract and thus we need not pay him surely, thereby us not losing money on his wage.
I'm genuinely interested to hear some opinions as to how people think Costa and Payet acted differently or not. Did the clubs act differently, did the managers, or the players?
It's just because as far as I can tell they both wanted to leave, Costa was about money, Payet was not. They both refused to train. Yet the treatment Payet has received compared to Costa is quite contrasting. Our fans have given Payet a far harder time. People have smashed his car, abused him on Twitter, insulted him for being French (unacceptable in my view).
If we treated Payet like Costa, maybe he'd be playing again for us. Maybe we wouldn't be desperate to sell him by deadline day.
People will state they don't care and just don't want him playing at our club again. Well others do care and the abuse is wrong. A portion are ruining it for the others. This happens quite often in football nowadays and I don't want us to react in the same way again. He is a valuable asset to our club and one we need to get maximum value from or keep. Unfortunately the later will now be impossible/extremely difficult.
Chelsea have done very well handling the Costa situation. Even though China pulled out, if he'd got the abuse Payet had received he wouldn't have pulled on a blue shirt again without a major amount of reconciliation.
Thoughts please.
Most of the Costa stuff has been rumour. His manager went on the record stating the only issue was medical/injury.
Costa trained on the day that the rest of the 1st team (post game) had a day off.
Whereas Payet has said he won't play for West Ham again, and has gone on strike. And isn't training.
Payet has refused to play for us and has done everything possible to manoeuvre a move away
And yea...Costa has been in the form of his life white Dimi has looked like he doesn't care this season
Payet has not.
PAYET UPDATE
There seems to be no end in sight to the Dimitri Payet transfer saga.
Payet is continuing to train with West Ham’s Under 23 squad and we understand reports that he has been turning up late for training are inaccurate.
As are reports that he walked off the training pitch yesterday. He just went to another pitch to take part in a shooting drill.
"Reports that Dimitri Payet was kicking out in frustration have been dismissed as it turned out he was kicking a football"
http://www.whu606.com/discussion/10067
Source close to Marseille president says they've made another significant bid for Dimitri Payet - in £. Bid rejected. Says they're moving on
They said that after the last two bids.
#porkies
If we are not careful we will leave a blueprint for every club who wants one of our players. We should put a statement out if it falls through to the extent of
'if you tap one of our players up please ensure you can afford him first'
Either way, I hope he leaves quick , or makes such a u turn in attitude that even a Botox face would show the amazement ;ok
They will offer 30mil.
We will accept 30mil.
The bad man will go away.
If true, ;lol
I thought the Daves were bad.
So that's £19m, £20m and £22.5m.
At least it wasn't £21m.
The only thing in his favour thus far is that he hasn't publicly made a statement badmouthing the club - he has held his silence. Ultimately the important point would be whether the manager and perhaps moreso the players are willing to have him back. The slight comments we have heard from Nobes and Carroll, and the comment by Byram that the atmosphere is '"probably the best it’s been in a while" in his post match, suggests things weren't great when Payet was about. If the players won't accept him back then irrespective of the fans, manager or his apologies he shouldn't return.
And then subsequently it's about his performances. Even before this came out I was annoyed at him for his performances and effort levels and resultantly had him out of my chosen 11. If he thinks he can came back to put in those lacklustre efforts then he can jog on. However we know that if he put in 100% effort, scored a hatfull of goals, assisted another load, a lot of fans would start singing his name again...
Not that I think it will happen, nor do I want it to. As Florin says, he could come back and win us the league and he would never be a favourite, always treated with suspicion.
Slav would pick him and if he played well and showed the right attitude then he remains in the team, if not he is on the bench. I can't see him staying but I would rather him stay than go at 22.5m or even 25m. He is worth more and is on a long contract, if we are not able to achieve an advantageous fee in this situation then we may as well give up with contracts and say just let us know when you want to go and where to whenever you fancy it.