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Hold on. Marseille are the only club, including last summer, to make a bid. So has he just revealed tapping up?
Alderzzz wins (with me!)
;wahoo
His behaviour in refusing to play is totally inexcusable.
It may well turn out he has family issues, and if so I will certainly feel sorry for him, but none of that could explain his actions, and that, for me, is what he should be judged on rather than the why's and wherefore's.
He has behaved disgracefully (assuming Slav's version is accurate, obvs.)
Apart from refusing to train or play, he has almost certainly colluded with Marseilles' tapping him up.
He must be in a pretty bad place to just down tools? Assuming it wasn't just a tactic
I don't believe you refuse to wear the shirt if your reason for leaving is that good. Seems like you'd just appeal to the club's compassion, rather than go on strike.
Payet has thrown sulks at other clubs - were they all because of his family?
Think some people are too eager to look for an excuse for the guy personally.
As for this report that he's turned down offers from China and England, this is surely agent-driven drivel and part of the Great French Backtrack - how can Payet have turned down offers when it's pretty clear WHU haven't accepted a single bid for the guy?
He hasn't turned anybody down until the club agree a deal and somebody offers him a contract.
Spin on both sides no doubt
Marsaille and Dimi have no power and so to take 25m after paying 20m for Ayew would expose any rumours of our owners being a shrewd businessmen.. Likely an undisclosed fee job however.
Sullivan, Gold and Brady spent 15 years at Birmingham City and thought that Avram Grant was the manager to take us to a higher level.
They are clueless muppets. Anyone on this site has more of an idea of a good footballing decision than they do, we just don't have the money made out of porn and sex toys that they do.
De Nile is a river in Africa.
He has at the moment the attitude of a child brat..
I Couldn't care a less about his family or kids , man up....
He IMO is a disgrace to our football club..
Sell ASAP and let him leave London, I mean it's such a rubbish city ;doh
How do you now know all of this?
We all have to go to work with family issues, some times terrible things.
My wife has spent months of our relationship in Asia. I don't refuse to go into work ;ok
Think the family thing is a very, very easy backtrack after an unexpectedly vitriolic backlash, and also an awareness that perhaps Marseille aren't going to pay the kind of money WHU will sell for, meaning he might have to stay after all.
From twitter
Whilst slightly ironic it's clearly somewhat different to what we have now.
From memory Bilic did not down tools and refuse to play and gave his all up to the point when the club acceded to his wishes
There'll be players up and down the country who want to move to supposedly bigger clubs, there's nothing new in that
Marseilles are the only interested party and, even if they weren't, he only wants Marseilles, so there is no bidding war to drive up the price. So it's whatever Marseilles want to pay. Keeping him and saying 'tough' benefits nobody.
I agree with your comments. ;ok
It was just an attempt at a bit of humour. Maybe poorly executed.
The club, should it wish can hang on to him till he is 34 years old and the only way he can escape playing is by effectively deliberately injuring his own body. On top of this, in terms of playing for France, he'd be finished. He'd have to ask himself if this is a path he would like to pursue.