Slaven Bilic should let Dimitri Payet “rot” in the reserves if Marseille do not stump up West Ham’s £35million asking price, according to former Hammer Rio Ferdinand.
Payet is on strike at the London Stadium and has gone so far as to threaten to fake an injury if he is forced to play against his will as he tries to push through a return to Ligue 1.
West Ham have stood firm in the face of several offers from Marseille, the highest of which reached £22m, and will refuse to be bullied into a sale on the cheap for last season’s player of the year. While all parties wait for a deal to be struck Payet is training with the Under 23s.
The club's stance is one that Ferdinand, who came through the West Ham youth system before departing for Leeds in 2000 in an £18m deal that made him the most expensive defender in the world, is entirely supportive of.
“If I was the gaffer there I would say, ‘Listen, until I get what I want for you money-wise, you can sit and rot’,” Ferdinand told reporters.
Payet has made clear that his desire for a West Ham exit is based on personal reasons; his family did not settle in London after his 2015 move and have already returned to the south of France ahead of the move.
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