A morning report suggesting that Nice are ready to offer Dimi Payet a loan deal until the end of the season has been ruled out by West Ham.
According to the Sunday paper the ‘deal’ would have allowed the Hammers to offload his £125,000-a-week wages gave him his wish to return home.
And it claimed that having been taken over by Chinese and American investors last summer the club had significant finds to make the deal happen.
But a top Hammers CandH source has quickly poured cold water over the story and made it clar there has been no approach of communication with the Ligue 1 leaders.
He said: “It would suit us for other clubs to come in on whatever basis but I can assure you this is not the case and the truth is that Nice do not have serious money available.
The deal is exactly where it was with offers from Marseilles having been turned down because they do not measure up to our valuation.”