Reports claim West Ham have rejected a second bid from Marseille for outcast Dimitri Payet.
The report in the Sun newspaper says that Hammers joint-chairman David Sullivan met with representatives from Payet’s former club earlier today but flatly rejected an improved offer of £22million for his rebel midfielder. The club would prefer Payet to apologise to supporters instead and then return to first-team training and play for West Ham but that appears to be increasingly unlikely as time goes on.
Sullivan is determined to play hardball over Payet who told Hammers boss Slaven Bilic last week that he wanted a return to France. Marseille followed that up with an initial bid of £20m which was turned down on Friday. The bid was made up of £10m up front plus add ons.
Payet has been told he must train with the Under-23s and will be fined two weeks wages if he refuses.
Hammers chairman Sullivan is taking a tough stance and refusing to be bullied into a quick or cheap sale.
Good, keep rejecting it until they come up with a serious offer. Anything under £34 million, keep telling them to **** off.
PS. Make Payet return that £1 million loyalty bonus aswell.
From what I’ve read elsewhere today poor old Dimi needs to go back to France asap because of all those family problems that conveniently came up after he got his nice big loyalty bonus and the transfer window opened 🙂 And there I was thinking he was just a snidey little money grabbing ****!
So we are entitled to fine him 2 weeks wages for refusing to play when not injured (I think that’s a PFA limitation)?
Presumably, we aren’t entitled to withhold pay for the period he makes himself unavailable as well? Is he not in breach of contract – can anyone explain?
Guidelines limit punishment of two weeks wages per incident.There would be an argument that every two weeks he strikes is a new incident so we could in theory fine him two weeks wages every two weeks
I just wonder how long he had this in his mind,and who put it there.
Marseille haven’t got that sort of dosh,and no players we could take as part ex.as far as I can see.If we do end up selling him for less than the 30 Mill he’s worth,we should ask for 50% of any future transfer fee.
No wonder other players had the ump,with him bagging a loyalty bonus,after a year or so.COYI