West Ham have rejected a £20m bid from Ligue 1 side Marseille for Dimitri Payet, according to the Telegraph.
Slaven Bilic confirmed at a press conference this morning that Payet no longer wants to play for the club and that he will not even train with the team until his attitude changes.
“I have a situation with a player. It is Dimitri Payet. He wants to leave.
“The club, us, as I have said so many times before we don’t to sell him. We have said hundreds of times that we do not want to sell our best players we want to keep them. He’s definitely one of our best players,
“He’s probably been tapped up by some clubs or whatever, which is usual in this part of the year or whatever in the transfer window.
“Anyway, until he changes his attitude he’s out of the team. He ain’t going to train with us and I expect from him, because we aren’t going to sell him, no [chance] whatsoever, it’s not the money issue, nothing, we want to keep our best players and I expect from him to come back and show commitment and determination to the team like the team have shown to him.”
One of the club’s keen on the 29-year-old is Marseille, the club the Hammers bought Payet from in July 2015 for a reported £10.5m. It’s understood the Frenchman is longing for a return to the Ligue 1 club and is pushing for a return to France.
They launched a bid to resign Payet this month worth just shy of £20m with a £2.5m bonus if Marseille qualify for the Champions League which was swiftly rejected by the Hammers.
Payet immediately informed the club he’d never kick a ball for West Ham again, club sources tell the Telegraph, following the rejected bid.
Despite signing a new five-year deal in February worth £125,000-a-week, Payet thought his exploits at this past summer’s Euros would prove enough to warrant a big-money move to a European giant and even though the likes of PSG and Real Madrid were keen, West Ham kept hold of him.
He hasn’t been the same since. His head has been turned and he wants to leave the East London club after effectively going on strike. West Ham deem Marseille’s bid as rather low and would need to see that offer significantly increase before they even consider parting ways with Payet.
