Any club wanting to get Dimi Payet out of West Ham will need to find a MINIMUM fee of £50 million a year whilst offering the player £200,000 a week over four years.
Although the suggestion that Real Madrid and Barcelona could be locked in a tug of war for Dimi this summer has only been raised by the unreliable Brentwood Gazette today, the story prompted CandH to get a realistic assessment of the player’s worth to the Irons from club contacts and sources.
Payet signed a new deal worth around £125k a week just a few weeks ago but that hasn’t stopped widespread speculation that a mega money club could move in this summer on the back of his amazing season at the Boleyn.
However,we can reveal with complete authority that the Hammers have received no inquiries for him and we were told: “He is central to the manager’s plans in every respect. He’s the difference to staying up, reaching the European positions and playing the football we all want here.”
Having said all that nobody inside West Ham is kidding themselves that a hugely unwelcome bid could be made and they won’t look both ways by using the well worn double talk – “he’s not for sale” in the same breath as saying “every player has his price.”
And although he is 29 years old, there is a general agreement that any offer would need to be at or in excess of £50 million whilst the player would want £10 million a year (£200k) a week to make it worth his while to move on,
We were told: “They are the sort of figures involved but £50 million is a minimum – he is far more valuable to us than he probably would be t another club. We will make it as impossible as we can for any club to entertain our figures but there has been no interest and we don’t want any”
Such MINIMUM figures would bring the deal for any other buying club to around £90 million for a 29 year old with no sell-on value of significance at the end of it.
Anything other than a Champions League success would be unlikely to merit such an outlay and the Irons are confident that they have clinched a deal with Dimi which will keep him here until the end of his career.
