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It's not about agreeing, it's about acknowledging everyone is different and it affects some people more or less than others
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It could be relatively simple
He wants a better home life, playing for a club that he has enjoyed playing at before and all the while still collecting a decent wedge
#worklifebalance
Family you would have thought would trump job for most people.
However he appears to have an option of handing in a transfer request and allowing the daves to thrash out a suitable fee with Marseille
He can then still join Marseille on a salary that most in the world can only dream of. Financially the daves I'm sure would have originally rolled the red carpet out to both him and his family. Everything they seem to have done has largely afforded him God like status at the club. Still not enough? That's fine, no problem however there still needs to be financial consequences for him as he was the one who signed his extension not long ago.
He cannot expect his enhanced West Ham contract to be paid up fully due to changes in his personal circumstances - I'm sorry but life doesn't work like that.
But as you say, it is a factor, I'm sure one of MANY, there could've been promises from the board, the manager, the player, all broken one after the other, who knows?
It sounds like Bilic has tried his hardest to help the player and whether that hasn't worked or Payet's situation (family) was perhaps bigger than what the club thought, the manager has done his job and did it again when explaining why he was not up for selection against Palace.
Lets just hope there isn't too much more to this story other than the Payet piece and there wasn't another kind of message being sent by Bilic.
It's only the way he has handled it ..
By doing what he has , he has now alienated himself from everyone connected to the club IMO ..
I have no issue if he's homesick or his family are, as u said , it's all about the way he has gone about it & nothing else for me...
Bilic doesn't come across as someone who would take such an aggressive position (the press conference) if there was a genuine grievance. If he has, it would make me question him.
If family was the problem, then I think Payet saying he wouldn't play one week might not necessarily apply to the week after. It would've been an emotional decision that might've been fixed. It seems Bilic felt that Payet wasn't thinking along those lines.
When Bilic announced it, didn't he basically say that Dimi had told him a few days ago that he wouldn't play for West Ham again. Then after being given a few days to reflect, he told Slav on the phone that he was sticking by his decision?
I know, I'm bang out of order ;lol
Go back to when he won Hammer Of The Year last year & look at the acceptance speech.It was all done via an interpreter despite him playing an entire season here.I know from personal experience that learning another language isn't easy but to not be able to say a simple 'thank you very much' at the end of an entire season in English strikes me that he never intended to stay very long in the first place.
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I can think of worse things to be ;ok
ASLEF was calling me out the other day saying we have no facts apart from what Bilic said, so it was more a tongue-in-cheek nudge to that than anything else, nothing vindictive.
I think if somebody is making a point in a forum, where we discuss things, based on information, it's quite helpful for other posters to know where it's come from, so we can then debate it seriously or put it down as a guess/conspiracy theory.
Fair enough Jorderz, fair enough.........
(how much they paying you?)
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That's a very satisfying word to say.
Oblong.
Ob. Long.
I quite like it paired with wonky, too.