Dimi Payet; the Epilogue

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thorn

re: Payet

Although, outside the fee, everything else is speculation, isn't it?

Vorselaarhammer

Exclusive picture of the Payet medical.....

NEoldiron

Vorse, wow, how did you get into the OM medical centre? ;biggrin

NEoldiron

FloRad, I'm with you on that about Hart ;ok

IronHerb

OM & OS announce the transfer of Payet is complete.

MunichHammer

Jack has been a very naughty boy once again! If supporters do this it is one thing but for the son of the owner!!!! Unacceptable. He ought to have his mobile taken away!!!

https://twitter.com/jsullivanwhu/status/825851929628725248

SuzanneClaret

Jack ;doh

MunichHammer

This really ought to have consequences. Potentially messing up (or giving away) potential transfers is one thing but Jack really needs to understand that he is no ordinary supporter. He simply can't do this kind of stuff and it's not like he doesn't have previous. (#Nolan)

IronHerb

Don't worry. He'll be running the club one day and wonder why we cant buy anyone.

WHU_Champo_league_in_7_years

So 25% sell on clause so all those that think he may end up in the EPL or another one of Europe's elite we will surely be getting a fairly big cut of whatever the fee is

Good riddance, class last season but this season he has never been the same and we've now got £25mil and £80k-125k a week off our wage bill

ASLEFshrugged

Jack is a 16/17 year old teenager, I can remember saying some pretty stupid things when I was that age.

I blame the parents.......

IronHerb

That's harsh on yours ASLEF. ;biggrin

baracks_a_hammer

Whilst not condoning payet's conduct the club need to think about how it handles exceptional players should that occur in the future.

The saying seems to go that no player is bigger than the club.

However there are certain things which may have contributed to Payet thinking he had untouchable status.

A couple of examples - the "we've got Payet, they don't understand" song - it's brilliant for the fans to sing it, however should the club then adopt the slogan too?

And another small example - the picture on the OS in the summer with the caption "look who's back" - it's as if the club and its fans should be grateful that he did?

Doing things like this, IMO, means that you are setting yourself up for a fall.

Lukerz

Fee is going to be paid in installments and we also owe Marseille still from the original purchase, so that is going to be deducted from the agreed fee.

OldCastleSwift

I don’t think Slav helped by constantly telling the world that Payet was our best player. I was never comfortable with it as I felt it undermined the other players, and in hindsight it may well have added to Payet’s ‘untouchable’ attitude.

alderz

I don't like the way the club made it about Payet a lot of the time, BUT, let's be honest here, he was our best player. It's not like people didn't know it.

We all love Di Canio, but supposedly he was treated differently to the rest of the squad and was allowed to be on the winning team in training. We let that slide though because he didn't break our hearts.

NEoldiron

OCS, wholeheartedly agree with you there

OldCastleSwift

I don't know Aldz, I think 'best' is too easy. I mean, he wasn't best at tackling, or tracking back, or doing the hard graft that isn't pretty but entirely necessary.

Payet was our most technically gifted player, that's probably true, but to be labelled our best player, particularly this season, I think belittles the efforts of the rest of the squad.

Vorselaarhammer

;wave

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West Ham UNITED Football club is stronger today than it was yesterday. dg

Vorselaarhammer

It would be fun to play them in Europe, the new Payet song being sung by 60k people......

Bazshuayi

looking forward to when this thread disappears off the first page. The vindictive part of me wants him to be a complete waste of 25M and go downhill rapidly after a 6 month injury ;whistle He treated us like something on the bottom of his shoe and deserves nothing positive back IMO

Vorselaarhammer

It would be nice if he used his Twitter account to make some comment of thanks or appreciation to WH / Fans....

You know just a short "sorry it ended like this but family comes first" a bit of class to draw a line under it.

alderz

OCS ;ok

That's very true. You can't say objectively who is the 'best' player, but largely people tend to suggest that the players with 'x' factor who do something and unexpected to win games are often the best players in teams.

brookingsirons

For me it was only ever a stepping stone for him , I bet he wasn't on anywhere
near 100k when he left them for us ;doh

I year in England made him a big name player made him for life imo .

we move on and learn that keep extending and uplifting wages doesn't always pay off..

ASLEFshrugged

brookingsirons said:

For me it was only ever a stepping stone for him , I bet he wasn't on anywhere
near 100k when he left them for us ;doh

I year in England made him a big name player made him for life imo .

we move on and learn that keep extending and uplifting wages doesn't always pay off..

I'm not sure how going back to the club you came from is a stepping stone.

According to the interwebby thing the season before he joined he was on 4.2m Euros, roughly £70k pw but that was due to drop to 3m Euros/£50k pw as Marseille had failed to qualify for Europe

Lukerz

Made to repay his January salary according to the Evening Standard before being allowed to leave, which he did.

MunichHammer

Nice move by the club.

https://mobile.twitter.com/i/web/status/826032323430854656

Ravel49

Ravel49

Not heard of a club doing this before, esp selling a player in the Jan window and offering a refund/exchange ;thumbsup

IronHerb

You realise you have to pay £25 for the new shirt?