People tried to say the ball was in our court. We never even touched the ball.
From the moment Payet decided he'd had enough of West Ham (whether that be now, next summer, last summer) he was going to leave and there was nothing the club could do, unless they wanted to take a massive financial hit. It's like when Slav and Sully said 2 weeks back 'he's not for sale, he's our best player and we want to keep our best players', who actually believed them?
WBA were happy to. Was it wise? Probably not when they were being offered £25m not long ago.
I'd like to see FIFA and UEFA find a way to punish this sort of conduct severely - e.g. banning from tournament finals (World Cup/euros) and/or the champions league.
Marseille can afford to pay £30m. They've gone from £19m to £25m in a week and are paying him £100,000 a week. But the cards are in their favour as we only have 3 days to decide if we want him gone or risk holding out and he stays in the reserves.
We've bulked, but it's difficult to know what else we could've done.
Unfortunately we aren't a club that can afford to carry a player like Payet without playing him
We've responded with 2 wins with an aggregate score of 6-1 since he left and we've brought in 2 experienced Premier league players since then so we've strengthened
He's been useless for most of the season and without the ball we've been down to 10 men regularly so if we can get £25mil then good
Despite all the rumours over the summer no-one actually tried to buy him because no one really wants him because of his age
It's not worth the risk holding out putting money in his back pocket just I he can make the exact same move in 6 months time but at a lower value
We bought him for £10mil and got more than double 18 months later, he is 30 and arguably has had one good domestic season and one good international tournament.
He turned out to be a cancer and I'm pleased he has been cut out.
Really don't understand why the quibbling over why we didn't get more money.
You never state the price you want at the start of an negotiation you provide an inflated staring price with the expectation that the value will come down during negotiation.
So 5m less can be seen as an expected outcome, if we wanted 30 then 35 would have been a out starting position.
I'm glad he's now gone. But just disappointed that it ended this way, as he will now be remembered as a twonk rather than a hero or a legend. Bye bye Dimi, it's been emotional.
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Nevertheless the fees I have heard today are ridiculously low. OM will be laughing all the way back from the bank.
On the other hand, Payet has thrown his toys out of the pram and within a couple of weeks stands to get exactly what he wanted. As will OM
People tried to say the ball was in our court. We never even touched the ball.
From the moment Payet decided he'd had enough of West Ham (whether that be now, next summer, last summer) he was going to leave and there was nothing the club could do, unless they wanted to take a massive financial hit. It's like when Slav and Sully said 2 weeks back 'he's not for sale, he's our best player and we want to keep our best players', who actually believed them?
WBA were happy to. Was it wise? Probably not when they were being offered £25m not long ago.
We got some money.
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Just means they can't afford it.
We've bulked, but it's difficult to know what else we could've done.
We've responded with 2 wins with an aggregate score of 6-1 since he left and we've brought in 2 experienced Premier league players since then so we've strengthened
He's been useless for most of the season and without the ball we've been down to 10 men regularly so if we can get £25mil then good
Despite all the rumours over the summer no-one actually tried to buy him because no one really wants him because of his age
It's not worth the risk holding out putting money in his back pocket just I he can make the exact same move in 6 months time but at a lower value
He's just not been as good as last season.
He turned out to be a cancer and I'm pleased he has been cut out.
Really don't understand why the quibbling over why we didn't get more money.
So 5m less can be seen as an expected outcome, if we wanted 30 then 35 would have been a out starting position.
15m profit good business imo.
Bye bye Dimi, it's been emotional.
After sky said Marseille didn't want him anymore.
;whistle