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West Ham will not allow Dimitri Payet to leave for PSG in January, according to the Daily Mail.
The French midfielder had previously hinted at a move back to Ligue 1 in the winter window, but the paper reports that the Hammers are determined to keep him in London.
We really had momentum at the end of last season and with the new stadium I think he did the right thing and said lets see what happens, but nothing happened. It's not that we have become rubbish and I fully expect Slav to survive relegation but this was the season we were meant to consolidate our first big season in years. Whether it was investment, bad luck or anything else we haven't done it and if he wants go It will be hard to keep him.
But I have come to believe that if we don't finish top 5, we won't keep him.
Not even if we do, possibly.
;weep
Simples.
The thing that concerns me is, say we get 30/35m for him do you have confidence that the money will be spent wisely? Or will it go on loan deals like Zaza, Tore, Calleri...
If we want to keep him, keep him.
We need to take the same approach Spurs have had over recent years - keep hold of players you want, or only let them go for ridiculous amounts of money.
He's on a long contract. The club can, if they insist, dictate the terms.
Otherwise we need to resign ourselves to being, at best, a mid-table club forever.
If that's what people are prepared to accept, fine, but then don't blame the club for lacking ambition.
Frustrating as it is, I feel the pragmatic thing to do if he wishes to leave is get the best deal we can for him.
Payet should be in a team challenging for trophies and considering our last round of Summer recruitment we are a long way from ever doing that. Just hope we can get a fair whack for him 40m+ and hopefully it can be invested wisely. (I have doubts)
I said: By this logic, we will never, ever, move on.
How about, Payet was drifting until we signed him and gave him the chance to shine, and force his way back into the French team, we deserve to get something back for that?
We buy players, they and the team don't 'challenge for trophies', so we 'owe' them the chance to play in a more successful team.
What's the point of banging on about the club needing to spend big on players, then saying that if they want to leave we should let them?
Let's just buy mediocre players no one will ever want to buy, and bob along around 15th - 12th.
Not the bottom five.
What we needed was a quality RB, a back up LB and at least one quality forward and that's about it. We could've spent £50m on three positions. We decided to spend that amount on an entire new XI, just one worse than our current one.
That would've been the ambition. Had Payet left after that for silly money, I would have no issue with the Dave's cashing in.
I've said for ages that our problem is that we don't generate good enough assets to recoup profit and then invest it in the squad. We rarely have a player 'worth' signing. Now we do, why would you not cash in on 5/6 times the initial outlay? The ambition comes from the players you bring in. Clubs will always lose the Dimi's of this world to the big sharks.
2007-8 Spurs were never in the top half of the table after game 3, and had 7 points after 11 games, finishing 11th.
2008-9 they had 9 points after 11 games and didn't rise above 15th until late February. finishing 8th.
This after having finished 5th the two previous seasons.
Success and consistency don't come easy in the PL, but if you continually let your better players go, I guarantee you they won't come at all.
Point is when Bale became 'class', they couldn't keep him beyond two years.
Bale was a kid at the time of 07-09, swapping between LB, LWB and LW?
They sold both Defoe and Robbie Keane to Pompey and Liverpool respectively, who I associated with being their better players at the time?
Have only improved in the league since Bale and Modric went.
That's my point.
They bought Keane and Defoe back again in 2008-9 for net £0 - perhaps they realised you shouldn't sell your better players?
Put £80m on Dimi. If someone pays it, fair enough.
Payet goes for 60M and we get Rav back for 600K ;wink
;ravel
wehe already threw away his potential valueonceseveral timesFixed it for ya! ;ok