Ligue 1: Marseille sign Dimitri Payet from West Ham

After he was hailed as the messiah, then after a fairly disastrous streak that demonstrated that he was not, Dimitri Payet decided his heart did not lie at West Ham.

While West Ham vice-chair Karren Brady announced that fans can replace their Payet shirts for £25 at club shops.

“I don’t have to justify my behaviour”.

Hammers manager Slaven Bilic initially validated information of Payet’s rejection to bet the club at an interview on January 12 as well as the information was obtained with rage by the group’s advocates. “I have no other comment”, Payet at his unveiling. “I prefer to savour this moment at a great club and return to that at a later date“.

‘I will speak about this, but not now.

With Payet’s arrival – which came hot on the heels of the signature of France worldwide left-back Patrice Evra – new OM owner Frank McCourt’s “OM Champions” project looks to be hitting its straps.

West Ham play their first Premier League game of the post-Dimtri Payet era as Manchester City head to London Stadium on Wednesday night.

These clubs will battle for the second time in less than a month after Manchester City knocked West Ham out of the FA Cup with a 5-0 thrashing January 6. In explaining why he was so adamant about leaving the Hammers, Payet said “I no longer felt well at West Ham, I needed to return to my roots”.

“I needed to come back to France to Marseille – it was a personal choice. Training every day without a match at the weekend was hard”. Payet is a different player.

Our attitude was: “‘You’ve refused to play – why should you get paid?'”

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“What Dimi said to me is that his family hadn’t settled”, he said.