Slaven Bilic has been badly let down by the ungrateful Dimitri Payet,his best player.
I was told that Slav made the acquisition of Payet a condition of his taking over at West Ham.
The club moved quickly and gave the midfielder a very good contract and Payet had a good first season, raised his global profile, got capped by France, and played in Euro 2016.
But now he wants to go back to Marseilles? What?
Chelsea hero Diego Costa, now 28, wants to go to a Chinese club in the middle of the season when the club are top of the table and while he is the top scorer in the Premier League?
Thank you, Jorge Mendes!
Yes, footballers have been mercenaries for 100 years.
And a helluva lot has changed in those years, epecially in the last 40, and hugely since 1992,when English football sold its soul to Sky.
Is loyalty now an obsolete concept in this 21st century?